Future of Work

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• To prepare today's workforce for AI, they must understand it's not a threat

  All entrepreneurs and business leaders talk about: What does a future with AI look like? What are the gains that AI can make ...

  • Alex Adamopoulos

• 6 foolproof content creation tips to boost your marketing strategy

  Buzzwords like ‘content marketing’, ‘content creation strategy’, and ‘content is king’ mean a lot more to businesses ...

  • Dave Brown

• 3 ways to select smart investors and avoid toxic partnerships

  I recently came to the rescue of a startup in crisis. The idea was solid: The company wanted to develop heavy-duty drones that could assist firefighters in battling wildfires. What its founders lacked, as many first-time entrepreneurs do, was real-world business experience. By the ...

  • Greg Shepard

• Are 'women in tech' events helpful or hurtful to gender equality?

  TNW Conference 2019 is coming! TheNextWomen will showcase the importance of female entrepreneurship featuring roundtable ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Use these Fortune 500 lessons on data governance for your small business

  It’s easy to aspire to be just like a Fortune 500 company - killer quarterly earnings, adulation from the press, respect from your peers, etc. It’s just as easy to forget there’s a reason these largely successful companies stay on top. They innovate, they provide superior service, ...

  • Kris Lahiri

• Tech's obsession with 'hustle porn' is discriminatory and counterproductive

  Tech's obsession with "hustle porn" counterproductive, and discriminatory. The idea that hard long hours at work result in ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Why 'right to erasure' is stopping companies from complying with GDPR

  Time may be relative, but most people will agree that whether you’re launching a business or planning a wedding, two years is a lot of notice, and enough time to adequately prepare for most things. Or so it would seem. But when the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) were ...

  • Amnon Drori

• AI isn’t here to steal your job, it’s here to make it better

  The belief that AI will displace jobs has been well countered with arguments that AI actually empowers workers to focus on higher-level thinking and creating. It’s an advantage in the workplace, not an obstruction. But there’s another, less discussed advantage of adopting AI at ...

  • Tasha Liniger

• Open floor plans should be killed with fire — or sound

  Research shows that because noise pollution is so bad in open floor plans, it causes productivity to drop by 20 percent.

  • William Watterson

• The ‘always-on’ mentality is terrible for social media managers — here’s how to switch off without getting left behind

  Being a Social Media Manager feels like your job is your life. This profession has finally been recognized by most employers ...

  • Caitlin Hughes

• If your employees don’t get enough sleep, that’s on you

  To some extent, technology can help facilitate healthy sleeping habits. Some employers are already experimenting with such ...

  • Anouk Vleugels

• To fight the talent shortage, train your current employees

  Looking for new candidates can be an expensive process. Actively encouraging your employees to spend time on their learning ...

  • Brian Hickey