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Farmers, undertakers and elected politicians are among the occupations most dependent on older workers, new figures suggest.Some 42% of farmers in England and Wales said they were aged 60 years or over at the time of the 2021 census, along with 28% of people working as undertakers or mortuary and crematorium assistants.

More than three-quarters of a million people in the UK with long Covid are likely to have first had the virus at least two years ago, new figures suggest.Some 1.9 million people across the country are currently estimated to be suffering from long Covid, or 2.9% of the population.This includes 762,000 who first had Covid-19, or suspected they had the virus, at least 24 months previously.

Nearly half of all specialist doctors in England and Wales were born outside the UK, along with two in five GPs, census data shows.Non-UK-born nationals also make up a quarter of care workers and one in five social workers.The figures provide a fresh snapshot of the diversity of the health and care workforce, as well as highlighting how recruitment from across the world has shaped the modern-day NHS.

Nearly a third of people with long Covid in the UK are likely to have been suffering the symptoms for two years or more, figures suggest.Some 645,000 of those with long Covid are estimated to have first tested positive for the virus at least 24 months ago.This is 30% of everyone likely to have the symptoms at the start of December, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The Government has missed its own target for recruiting school teachers by almost a third, figures show, leading critics to blame devastating pay cuts in the education sector.Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows there were 29% fewer new entrants to postgraduate initial teacher training (PGITT) than needed this year (2022-23).

Proposals like allowing children to work in meat coolers violate federal child labor safeguards, officials say.Children ride on a trailer as they roll along Grand Avenue during in the Iowa State Fair Parade August 07, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images A child labor expansion bill being pushed by Republicans and industry groups in Iowa to allow children to work in meat coolers would stand in violation of federal labor laws, top Department of Labor officials are warning.

CEOs will make more than the average annual pay for all U.S. workers before the end of the first workday of 2023.Public outrage over extreme pay gaps has led to broadening support for strategies to address them.PeopleImages / iStock / Getty Images Plus If the typical CEO of a large U.S. corporation clocks in at 9 am on January 2, by 3:37 pm that afternoon he'll have earned $58,260 - the average annual salary for all U.S. occupations.

Nearly two in three workers in the UK think the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) will take away more jobs that it will create, but many fewer are worried about their own prospects, a new study has suggested.In a poll taken earlier this month before BT said it might lose around 10,000 workers to AI by the end of the decade, 62% of working Britons said that robotics and AI would take over more jobs than they create.

Businesses globally have introduced automation into their operations at a slower pace than previously anticipated, the World Economic Forum (WEF) opined this week.The org's annual Future of Jobs report said businesses currently estimate 34 percent of all their tasks are completed by machines - a trajectory that would see its 2020 prediction of 47 percent automation by 2025 fall short.

Wondering if artificial intelligence will be taking your job anytime soon?We're sure we speak for a lot of folks when we say: same.Considering that AI is literally designed to model human capabilities and thus automate human tasks, it's a fair question - and one that a group of professors from New York University (NYU), Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) may have just helped to shed a little bit of light on in a new paper, aptly titled "How Will Language Modelers like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries?"
Though the paper has yet to be peer-reviewed, the results are fascinating, not to mention ominous - especially, of course, for the folks most at risk.

Young people will be able to apply for apprenticeships alongside degrees through the university admissions service.From this autumn, school and college leavers will be able to explore apprenticeship opportunities alongside undergraduate courses via the Ucas website so they can decide between their options in the same place.

In a bright, bunting-filled community hall in central Reykjavik, Eggert Arason bounces his 17-month-old son, Mosi, on his lap as they sing the Icelandic version of Row Your Boat, accompanied by an acoustic guitar.It's mid-morning on a Thursday, and Arason is not the only dad who is off work to attend the council-funded playgroup.

Regular school attendance is not just about learning.The responsibility of waking up early, organising food and clothes, and then getting to school on time prepares a child for the routine of a working life.The bottom line is; if we want our kids to be at school learning how to be valuable members of future New Zealand, we need to be physically at work to set the example.But why should we expect kids to go to school when their parents are staying at home during school hours?READ MORE: * Lack of 'basic' skills in new entrants concerns teachers * Back to school means big bills for parents * Stay@home: The job where you don't get a break In retrospect, I should have left the laptop at work on Friday afternoon, but sadly that's not how you get ahead in the academic game.

Standards for exposure to toxic chemicals at work, known as permissible exposure limits or PELs, have long been and still are vastly and indefensibly weaker than standards for environmental exposure to these same toxics.This disparity puts not only workers, but also their offspring at risk-especially where women of child-bearing age are a sizable part of the workforce.

The biggest ever public investment in childcare in England was announced in this week's Budget.At the moment, eligible parents can claim up to 30 hours of free childcare for three and four-year-olds, as well as 15 hours for some two-year-olds.The reforms will extend this to all children from nine months to five years by September 2025.

Are you looking for an exciting and challenging career that is in high demand?Look no further than cyber security.With the increasing frequency of cyber attacks and data breaches, companies and organizations are in desperate need of skilled cyber security professionals to protect their networks and data.

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Although rugged phones are out of fashion these days, a few smartphone makers are still catering to this niche market segment, Blackview being one of them.Today's smartphones are sexy, functional and offer a set of features that would be unthinkable five or ten years ago.However, they are easy to break, and people in certain occupations may require a device that's more resilient than your average glass slab.

Goldman Sachs wants their customers to know that they should be very excited about generative AI - because generative AI tools could let 'em fire human workers and replace them with AI en masse.Hooray!"The recent emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) raises whether we are on the brink of a rapid acceleration in task automation that will drive labor cost savings and raise productivity," reads a new Goldman Sachs economic report, published over the weekend.

Software is making inroads into white-collar professions due to innovations enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning, fueled by pandemic-surging demand.Startups are making such solutions available to small companies as well as corporate giants; Kizen, for example, sells licenses to use its Zoe automated assistant, which sales teams can use to conduct initial research and qualify leads.Old-school automation also remains popular, with the Association for Advancing Automation estimating a record number of robots sold in North America in the first quarter of this year.

As many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world could be automated in some way by the newest wave of artificial intelligence that has spawned platforms like ChatGPT, according to Goldman Sachs economists.They predicted in a report Sunday that 18% of work globally could be computerized, with the effects felt more deeply in advanced economies than emerging markets.

The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence could lead to the automation of a quarter of the work done in the US and eurozone, according to research by Goldman Sachs.The investment bank said on Monday that "generative" AI systems such as ChatGPT, which can create content that is indistinguishable from human output, could spark a productivity boom that would eventually raise annual global gross domestic product by 7 percent over a 10-year period.

Research from global investment bank Goldman Sachs claims that as many as 300 million jobs could be at risk from automation powered by generative AI.The tech industry has seen burgeoning releases based on large language models, from the likes of Google and OpenAI, in partnership with Microsoft.Impressively aping human language and even producing working computer code, LLMs are at the centre of a media frenzy right now.

When Scott Warfel met Luccas Israel in 2019 through friends, neither thought romance was in their future.But during the pandemic, their friendship moved slowly, thoughtfully, into a deeper connection.By 2021, both felt invested in the relationship, but were not ready to move in together.At the time, Mr. Israel, 29, a project coordinator for Taschen, an art book publishing house, was living in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in a self-described queer frat house with three roommates, whom he met at Florida State University, and was craving a quieter existence.

The idea of having a summer birthday sounds appealing in theory, but in practice, it's not all pool parties, hot dogs, and watermelon.July babies are more likely to have asthma, research shows, and more likely to be employed as bricklayers or train conductors than babies born in other months.As aggressively quirky as that may seem, July babies do also seem to have the advantage of being more mentally stable than their peers.

Poland's president has said his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first Nato member to fulfil Kyiv's increasingly urgent requests for warplanes.ndrzej Duda said Poland would hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes "within the next few days" but the rest need servicing and will be supplied later.

Ogury, le leader mondial de la publicité personnifiée, annonce la promotion de son ancien COO Geoffroy Martin au poste de chief executive officer.Thomas Pasquet, ancien CEO d'Ogury qui a cofondé l'entreprise et occupé ce poste pendant huit ans, devient Président du Conseil d'Administration pour promouvoir la mission et la vision de l'entreprise au niveau externe.

Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is 45 years old, which makes him the oldest player in the National Football League.Francesca Paris, for NYT's The Upshot, places Brady's age under the perspective of other occupations.For example, Lilian Thomas Burwell, who is an artist at 95 years old, is well in the upper percentile for those in her field (and the general population).

David Beckham, MPs and other dignitaries travelling to Qatar for the World Cup should recognise reforms made by the hosts but press for them to be continued, according to a former cabinet minister.Conservative MP Alun Cairns said there needs to be a collective effort to push for progress on workers' rights and human rights to last beyond the four-week tournament.

Wages in Ireland have increased by an average of 4.7% in the year to October, according to figures released by the Central Bank.This compares with average wage increases of 5.2% across six European countries as of October, and a wage growth increase of 6.2% in the UK.The figures are based on millions of job postings on Indeed, to create a new monthly wage growth tracker.