End of free coffee, snacks and yoga: How the ‘perkcession’ is affecting European workers
By Kirstie McDermott In early 2020, CRM company Salesforce trumpeted the launch of Trailblazer Ranch, a woodland retreat on 75 acres in northern California. The company said it was an “exciting new gathering place where employees can forge trusted relationships…
Regret quitting your job? Here are 3 tips for dealing with resigner’s remorse
By Suzie Coen After the “Great Resignation,” the corporate world is now grappling with a new phenomenon known as the “Great Regret”. Changing economic conditions, evolving workplace flexibility policies, and an undervaluing of coworker relationships are leaving many of those…
Could working on your soft skills save your job from being made redundant by AI?
By Aoibhinn Mc Bride While much of the conversation to date surrounding ChatGPT, the groundbreaking chatbot created by OpenAI, revolves around whether AI will replace humans and take our jobs, these advances in technology will also have a positive effect…
Are your job skills futureproof? Here’s how to avoid becoming obsolete
By Aoife Barry Things are changing swiftly in the modern workplace. For instance, 25 per cent of the skills required for jobs today are different from those required back in 2015, according to LinkedIn’s 2023 Workplace Learning Report. It isn’t…
Even post-Brexit, London remains a hotspot for tech workers in Europe
By Sandra O’Connell London is one of the world’s greatest cities when it comes to art, theatre, fine dining or business. But beyond the city’s cultural offerings, it’s also one of the top places to live for tech workers in…
European countries are banking on blockchain. Here’s how jobs in the sector are growing
By Kirstie McDermott When you say “blockchain,” many people’s Pavlovian response is “crypto”. And sure enough, blockchain – a decentralised, digital ledger technology that enables secure and transparent peer-to-peer transactions without the need for intermediaries – is the backbone of…
Mind the gender gap: Women are underrepresented in the metaverse, too
By Susan Armstrong It’s no secret that women have been underpaid, undervalued and underrepresented in the workplace for decades. While some progress has been made, women are still paid about 16.1 per cent less than men and, globally, women hold…
Take a deep breath. Here’s why rage applying won’t get you a better job
By Aoibhinn Mc Bride Yet another passive aggressive email from a colleague; being asked to attend a meeting that could have been an email; someone leaving their used teabags in the sink in the communal kitchen for the umpteenth time……
Twitter hasn’t removed verified check marks yet – except for the New York Times’ account
Verified Twitter users have been awaiting the removal of their verified status on the platform, after Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk announced anyone who didn’t pay for the Twitter Blue subscription service would lose their check mark. Almost all of them…
The best AI tools to power your academic research
“ChatGPT will redefine the future of academic research. But most academics don’t know how to use it intelligently,” Mushtaq Bilal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, recently tweeted. Academia and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly intertwined,…