Standard Chartered’s planned job cuts are another reminder that AI was sold as a way to remove boring work. The awkward bit is that quite a lot of boring work pays rent, buys food and keeps people just about attached to civilisation.
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Twenty-Five Years of the Living Wage
The Living Wage Campaign turning twenty-five is a reminder that paying people enough to live on still has to be treated as an achievement. A quarter of a century later, the moral argument remains strangely fresh, mostly because the bills keep arriving with admirable punctuality.
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Nissan Tightens the Belts
Nissan is reshaping its European operations, with Sunderland spared the worst because electric vehicles still give it a reason to breathe. Elsewhere, jobs go, lines merge and management calls it efficiency. Workers tend to experience efficiency rather less elegantly than the slide deck suggests.