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The head of the government's economic growth advisory council says governments need to find better ways to confront income inequality that risks becoming deeper as technology makes some jobs irrelevant.

Abrimos nuevo debate en IEBS. Esta vez hablaremos del teletrabajo, de la posibilidad de trabajar desde casa, con el pijama puesto, de llevar el trabajo allá donde te lleve el viento sin necesidad de estar encerrado en la oficina. Estas dinámicas de trabajo también son conocidas como trabajo a distancia, telenetworking, ciberworking, telework, e-trabajo, telecommunting y mobile worket (en EEUU).

With the unemployment rate of recent college graduates at an all-time high, there has been much debate about whether a college degree is still worth pursuing. here is our list of 10 college degrees actually worth getting.

IMAGINE YOU ARE a 45-year-old long-distance lorry driver. You never enjoyed school and left as soon as you could, with a smattering of qualifications and no great love of learning. The job is tiring and solitary, but it does at least seem to offer decent job security: driver shortages are a perennial complaint in the industry, and the average age of the workforce is high (48 in Britain), so the shortfalls are likely to get worse. America’s Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) says there were 1.8m truckers in 2014 and expects a 5% rise in their number by 2024. “As the economy grows, the demand for goods will increase and more truck drivers will be needed to keep supply chains moving,” predicts the BLS website, chirpily.

If statistics are to be believed, this business model is likely to change the face of employment over the next few years. As a nation, we are now moving away from the traditional concept of work being something that takes place during designated hours in a specific setting to one in which work and life are increasingly integrated.

This can have its drawbacks, with people who work from home often complaining that their work now invades every aspect of their lives rather than existing within set parameters. There is a sense of being ‘on call’, yet many people are choosing to work from home because it conveys significant benefits compared with being confined to an office.

Employers must sit up and take notice. There are now 1.5 million home workers in the UK, of which 900,000 are women. This is not to mention the other 4.2 million who work from home some of the time.

Working more than 39 hours a week is bad for your mental and physical health, a new study says.

Australian National University researchers are calling for a drop in the the internationally-accepted 48-hour work week, agreed to about 80 years ago to avoid worker burn-out.

They've published a research paper, 'Not all hours are equal: could time be a social determinant of health?', after examining the work lives of 8000 adults.

Even if those jobs returned, a high school diploma is simply no longer good enough to fill them. Yet rarely discussed in the political debate over lost jobs are the academic skills needed for today’s factory-floor positions, and the pathways through education that lead to them.

Many believe that the solution is for more Americans to go to college. But the college-for-all movement, which got its start in the 1970s as American manufacturing began its decline, is often conflated with earning a bachelor’s degree.

With college tuition soaring nationwide, many Americans don’t have the time or money to earn a college degree. However, that doesn’t mean your job prospects are diminished. Increasingly, there are many companies offering well-paying jobs to those with non-traditional education or a high-school diploma.

“When you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people,” said Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock.

“Academic qualifications will still be taken into account and indeed remain an important consideration when assessing candidates as a whole, but will no longer act as a barrier to getting a foot in the door,” added Maggie Stilwell, Ernst and Young’s managing partner for talent.

What’s new in leadership? As we have been writing throughout our project-based world series, the nature of work is changing. We are moving at a faster pace. There’s an awesome opportunity to make an impact, and the scale of our challenge is immense. People live, learn, connect, work and shop now on platforms.

"La competencia digital es una de las 8 competencias clave que cualquier joven debe haber desarrollado al finalizar la enseñanza obligatoria para poder incorporarse a la vida adulta de manera satisfactoria y ser capaz de desarrollar un aprendizaje permanente a lo largo de la vida según las indicaciones del Parlamento Europeo sobre competencias clave para el aprendizaje permanente (Recomendación 2006/962/CE del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 18 de diciembre de 2006, sobre las competencias clave para el aprendizaje permanente, Diario Oficial L 394 de 30.12.2006). La competencia digital no sólo proporciona la capacidad de aprovechar la riqueza de las nuevas posibilidades asociadas a las tecnologías digitales y los retos que plantean, resulta cada vez más necesaria para poder participar de forma significativa en la nueva sociedad y economía del conocimiento del siglo XXI".

La necesidad de contar con científicos de datos en las plantillas es una realidad creciente para las empresas, que ven en el Big Data la fuente de información más fiable en la toma de decisiones. No solo en los negocios, sino también en otros ámbitos, como la cultura, la seguridad y el tráfico, se requiere de estos profesionales para cubrir unas exigencias que van apareciendo con cada vez más frecuencia. Por lo general, las personas que trabajan en este campo suelen ser científicos expertos en analítica, programación y lógica, especializados en aplicar sus conocimientos a los datos. Según el XI Informe Los + Buscados de Spring Professional de Adecco del 2016, este será además el perfil más demandado en el futuro inmediato.

He seemed a little hesitant to admit that he didn’t know what the term meant to the rest of the table, but as everyone was busy arguing about AI and robots replacing all of our jobs someday soon, he saw an opening and took a chance. The term had bounced back and forth across the table a few times: Stem this and stem that. Was it a biotech thing? Genetic-engineering jobs? (Because stem cells, I expect.) Some kind of government tech education program?

“S.T.E.M.,” I said. “Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.”

“Ohhhhh,” he replied with a grin. “Tech jobs.”

Right. Tech jobs. Sort of. Not just tech jobs, but definitely the kinds of jobs most prized by companies right now, at least at scale.

Design thinking emphasises action over planning and encourages its followers to look at problems through the eyes of the people affected. Around 100,000 Infosys employees have gone through a series of workshops on it. The first such workshop sets the participants a task: for example, to improve the experience of digital photography. That involves moving from the idea of making a better camera to considering why people value photographs in the first place, as a way of capturing memories. As ideas flow, people taking part in the workshops immediately start producing prototypes with simple materials like cardboard and paper. “The tendency is to plan at length before building,” says Mr Rajagopalan. “Our approach is to build, build, build, test and then plan.”

Workers are switching careers after being made redundant, want to earn more money, or are bored in their job, new research shows.

A study by the Co-op found that more than half of people over the age of 50 have had at least three different jobs.

The White House published a report last month that reinforced this view. Some of the headline stats:

• 83 percent of the jobs where people make less than $20 per hour will be subject to automation or replacement.
• Between 9 percent and 47 percent of jobs are in danger of being made irrelevant because of technological change, with the worst threats falling among the less educated.
• Between 2.2 and 3.1 million car, bus and truck driving jobs in the U.S. will be eliminated by the advent of self-driving vehicles.

We know that the jobs of tomorrow will require skills steeped in technology. We also realize that today’s students live surrounded by technology that wasn’t a reality for the generations before them. Technology can improve how students learn both in and out of the classroom. We truly believe that the startups that have been and will be a part of the AT&T Aspire Accelerator will be the individuals helping to shape what the future of edtech will look like, and we’re excited to be along for this important ride.