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General Motors announces another round of layoffs, 1,695 workers to be affected
General Motors has announced layoffs at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, affecting 1,695 emplo…
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A Harvard Medical School professor with ADHD shares how he retrained his brain for deep work and reached peak productivity
Dr. Jeff Karp grew up with undiagnosed ADHD and shares how he overcame low expectations and retrain…
Dr. Jeffery Karp
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I retrained as a plumber after being laid off from my media job and becoming a mom. I love the flexibility.
R.J. Fenton, 40, opted to reskill as a plumber after she became a single mom during the pandemic.
Alexandra Bacon
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Bill Gates publishes blog post on the risks of AI, says employees will need 'retraining' and 'support' as workplace transforms
The rise in AI is neither "grim" nor "rosy," says Bill Gates. However, the workforce will need to a…
Haley Tenore
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I'm a 40-year-old former teacher retraining to get into AI. It might be crazy but I wish more people my age were doing it.
Evrim Kanbur left her teaching job to focus on studying coding full-time in the hopes of working in…
Jyoti Mann
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AI is a double-edged sword that will eliminate some jobs but also help retrain workers, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman says
"There will be some jobs that will disappear and navigating all that's really important," LinkedIn'…
Zahra Tayeb
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Biden calls for police officers to be retrained: 'Why should you always shoot with deadly force?'
Biden spoke about his efforts to bring in police reform after the death of George Floyd in a speech…
Sinéad Baker
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Bank of America's CHRO Sheri Bronstein shares how she led a crisis response for the bank's 200,000 employees
The company promised no layoffs and no reduced hours. It also increased flexibility and expanded be…
Aman Kidwai
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Airport chaos is the worst I've ever seen in 30 years of being a pilot – lines are out the door and we can't retrain pilots fast enough
Commercial-airline pilot Patrick Smith shares what it's been like behind the scenes at airports thi…
Claire Turrell
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India will need 2.7 million digitally-skilled people by 2023 across sectors, not just in IT
The world is automating and is changing the we work. And more than half of Indian employees have to…
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3 people with decades of experience between them say they can't find a job after retraining in tech, forcing them to apply to internships and junior roles
Insider spoke to people struggling to land roles in tech despite having years of experience, includ…
Stephen Jones
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The upskilling economy: 7 companies investing millions of dollars in retraining American workers so they can find better jobs
In fact, by 2022, 54% of all employees will require significant upskilling, according to the World …
Marguerite Ward
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This self-proclaimed 'Stepford wife' retrained as a lawyer in her 40s. Still practising at 72, she insists nobody is too old to make a 'life-affirming' career change.
Elizabeth Hepworth charts her course from domestic life to the legal profession in an interview wit…
Stephen Jones
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Amazon commits $700 million to giant retraining scheme for 100,000 US workers
"While many of our employees want to build their careers here, for others it might be a stepping st…
Mary Hanbury
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Accenture had to re-train 17,000 employees because automation ate their jobs
The threat of automation replacing traditional jobs is increasingly becoming a pressing concern for…
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Verizon unveils new business plan with the goal of going carbon neutral by 2035 and retraining 500,000 employees for emerging tech jobs
The move is part of a larger trend of companies changing the way they do business to be more enviro…
Marguerite Ward
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These are the billion-dollar programs KPMG, Deloitte, and PwC plan to use in 2020 to retrain thousands of employees on the hottest new tech
Part educational institute, part cultural hub, the center is meant to offer courses on advanced tec…
Joe Williams
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Infosys commits to 1,000 tech jobs in Rhode Island, adding to the state's $45 million plan to retrain and reskill workers in partnership with Salesforce, Microsoft, and others
Gov. Gina Raimondo told Business Insider she plans to take advantage of proximity to New York and B…
Natasha Solo-Lyons
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Meet the CEO of an education company he started at age 11 that Amazon, Microsoft, and PWC are counting on to retrain their workers for the digital age
PWC is taking a client-centric approach to evaluating its own initiative by asking, among other thi…
Joe Williams
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Direct to consumer retail startups like Bandier and Rhone are retraining staff and doubling down on e-commerce as they face the worst financial crisis in a generation
Some startups have already cut jobs. Coca-Cola backed Iris Nova laid off half its staff after its w…