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Research Explores The Economic Benefits Of Remote Work During Covid

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The wholesale transition to remote working has by and large been successful, with research suggesting that productivity has largely been strong during the pandemic, even if there have been possible consequences for collaboration and innovation. To a large extent, tools such as Zoom allowed knowledge workers to carry on much as before.

GDP 136
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Are We Still Attracted By The Bright Lights?

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Their hypothesis was that if these things vanish then our incentive for living in the city vanishes too, especially given the costs associated with big-city living, such as higher rents, pollution, and so on. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4% The bright lights.

GDP 95
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How Workplace Equality Can Drive The Economy (With A Little Help From AI)

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This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. “There is, of course, a cost to consider as white, male doctors and lawyers and other professionals are replaced by, or competing with, other people,” the researchers say.

GDP 82
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Low-Skilled Immigration Is Needed To Overcome The Western Worker Crunch

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After all, research from the IMF shows that low-skilled immigration raises labor productivity and GDP per capita, with these gains typically shared across the population. Such an attitude is not only elitist, but also illogical.

Skills 128
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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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The Social Network — College Edition

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And, the cost of not addressing this problem is more than just the emotional toll of students having a "tough time down there." 4% of US GDP).

GDP 14
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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business Review

They often arrive with a reputation for being able to turn around a school quickly, as they’ve done this many times before in their career. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career.