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A fast food restaurant advertises for workers on its front window in Encinitas, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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Kiva robots move racks of merchandise at an Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, Calif., where there are two robots for every human worker. Policy makers can help prepare people for a time when more jobs are automated. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
How to Beat the Robots
Maybe the automation of jobs will eventually create new, better jobs. Maybe it will put us all out of work. But as we argue about this, work is changing. Today’s jobs — white collar, blue collar or no collar — require more education and interpersonal skills than those...Caption:
Laura Callens, 52, at home in Rochester. After her husband died, she left a job as a school admissions director and chose to become a nurse. She will soon work in the same hospital unit that treated her husband. Credit Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times
In the Middle of a Career, and Finding a New One
After her husband, Eddy, died in 2011, Laura Callens found that her life was in limbo. Her work as a school admissions director wasn’t fulfilling. And she lived in Rochester, where companies like Eastman Kodak and Xerox have shed thousands of well-paying jobs. But...Caption:
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EU Hits Highest Employment Level Ever Recorded
Brussels-In the third quarter of 2016, 232.5 million men and women were employed in the EU28, which is the highest level recorded ever, according to national accounts estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The statistics showed...Caption:
Saudi Arabia Labor Ministry: We Receive an Annual 1.5 Mln Expatriate Employees