Category Archives: Business
Self-Driving Cars Could Transform Jobs Held by 1 in 9 U.S. Workers
Self-driving vehicles have the potential to reshape a wide range of occupations held by roughly one in nine American workers, according to a new U.S. government report.
About 3.8 million people drive taxis, trucks, ambulances and other vehicles for a living. An additional 11.7 million workers drive as part of their work, including personal care aides, police officers, real-estate agents and plumbers. In all, that’s roughly 11.3% of total U.S. employment based on 2015 occupational data, according to the analysis by three Commerce Department economists.
If businesses embrace autonomous vehicles on a large scale, workers in the first category are “more likely Read More
Source:: wsj
Why Supercell Brought The Builder From “Clash Of Clans” Into The Real World
His farewell has more than 51 million views, now after after a statue appeared in Brooklyn, fans are on the look out IRL.
It takes a certain kind of person to dedicate themselves to ephemeral work. To know that not long after it’s finished, it’ll be gone. Just ask any graffiti or Subway sandwich artist. And after five years of building structures just so they could be destroyed, even the Clash of Clans‘ video game character The Builder reached his breaking point.
Source:: Fast Company
Peter Drucker Has Some Sage Advice For How Execs Should Respond To Charlottesville
Decades ago, the management guru offered a great example of how corporate execs should take on Nazis and white supremacists: Speak out and don’t equivocate.
Peter Drucker has been celebrated as “the man who invented management.” In the wake of what unfolded over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, now is the time for corporate leaders to remember why he invented the discipline of management in the first place: to prevent the Nazis and other like-minded groups from ever rising again.
Source:: Fast Company
Americans Should Care That Singapore Prosecutes Citizens Over Facebook Posts
Having lived in Singapore as a teen, I always knew I didn’t want to live in a place where free speech was crushed in the courts. As an American, I still don’t.
In a disturbing trend sweeping through Southeast Asia, governments have been going after ordinary citizens when they share Facebook posts that are critical of the government, military, or head of state. This growing tactic of speech suppression tends to be met with a shrug by many Westerners who take open online forums for granted, but Americans should be paying more attention, because what’s happening half a world away isn’t Read More
Source:: Fast Company
