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Portugal Must Retrain 1.3 Million Workers In AI To Close Productivity Gap

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Portugal must retrain 1.3 million workers, or around 30% of its employed population, to work with generative artificial intelligence in order to close the productivity gap with the European Union’s average by 2030, a study showed on Monday. Low productivity has long been Portugal’s Achilles’ heel, with productivity gains contributing, on average, just 0.6% to compound annual GDP growth between 2010 and 2022, less than half the EU average of 1.3%.

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How to Use Your Connections When You’re Pretty Sure You Don’t Have Any

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The best career advice I’ve ever gotten is also the worst—to find a new opportunity, just “ use your connections.” We’ve probably all heard a version of this at one point or another; it’s a go-to for a reason. For some people, it really is as easy as reaching out to a few close friends or family—and boom, they have a new job. Unfortunately, I’ve never been one of those people.

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EU Secures Billions In Capital For Tech Investment

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The European Union said on Monday it had joined forces with leading venture capital firms from the region to boost investment in tech innovation in Europe, amid concerns that Europe’s tech sector is lagging behind the United States and China. The initiative, dubbed by the EU as the “Trusted Investors Network,” comes as Europe tries to keep pace with the bigger and more innovative tech industries in China and world-leader the United States.

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How to Identify & Leverage Stretch Opportunities

Eat Your Career

As a career coach, I frequently tell people that stretch opportunities are your best ally for career advancement. If you’re looking to accelerate your professional development, hands-on experience is the most effective way to quickly build new skills while also enjoying the additional benefits of on-the-job learning. What Are Stretch Opportunities? Stretch opportunities are assignments or projects that go beyond your current skills or experience level and challenge you to develop new capabilitie

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Flexible Office Demand Up 13%, New Report Shows

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Flexible office demand is up 13 percent in the first half of 2024 when compared with the first half of 2023, yet some markets, such as Austin, Boston and Los Angeles, have seen a decrease in demand, according to The Instant Group’s newly released U.S. State of the Flexible Workspace Market Report. In many markets, desk rates remain below 2023 levels when comparing the same time periods.

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Solar for Social Good

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Walid Halty , a serial entrepreneur in the climate tech space, has come a long way since his humble beginning. Halty’s parents emigrated to the U.S. from Morocco and were fortunate enough to secure government housing. The oldest of five children, Halty remembers his childhood home being small but filled with a lot of love. Although Halty’s parents hoped he would become a doctor, he ultimately forged a different path: one where he’d run a $41 million company by age 23.

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The rise of the part time office opens up a new frontier for market growth

Workplace Insight

As businesses, large and small, continue to adapt to post-pandemic realities, the demand for flexible working solutions continues to surge. The part-time office offers companies the ability to rent office spaces on a part-time basis—often for just one to three days a week— whilst opening a unique opportunity for occupiers, landlords, operators, and investors.

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FUSE Workspace Opens East MLK Location, Sets October 22 Public Grand Opening

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Texas-based FUSE Workspace, a hospitality-driven provider of Class A flexible office workspace designed to help businesses build connections and flourish, today announced it has opened its fourth Austin-area location at 2105 East MLK Boulevard and is accepting members and tenants. FUSE-MLK will host a public grand opening and ribbon cutting event on Tuesday, October 22, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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Manchester joins Horizon CommuniCity Project

Workplace Insight

Manchester has become the first UK city outside of London to join the European Union’s CommuniCity initiative, a programme designed to empower local people and organisations in developing innovative solutions to social challenges. As the second UK city to participate (following London), Manchester is now part of this three-year initiative led by Horizon Europe, the EU’s primary funding programme for research and innovation.

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Boeing Shares Up 4% On Strike Deal Hopes Despite Steep Costs

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Boeing’s shares rose 4% on Monday on hopes of an end to a crippling strike , although analysts expressed doubts that the proposed labor contract unveiled over the weekend would muster enough support from workers. About 33,000 workers will vote on the contract proposal on Wednesday after a more than month-long work stoppage, which has halted production of models including its best-selling 737 MAX narrowbody jets.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Meta Launches AI Models That Could Become Your Next Assistant

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Facebook owner Meta said on Friday it was releasing a batch of new AI models from its research division, including a “Self-Taught Evaluator” that may offer a path toward less human involvement in the AI development process. The release follows Meta’s introduction of the tool in an August paper, which detailed how it relies upon the same “chain of thought” technique used by OpenAI’s recently released o1 models to get it to make reliable judgments about models’ responses.

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