Peter Harris 
Automation. Robots. They won Trump the election. That is the conclusion of a new working paper from Oxford University. Co-authored by Carl Benedikt Frey, the research finds correlations between job losses due to automation and votes for Donald Trump in last year’s US presidential election. Frey is no stranger to … Read More
Nearly two-thirds of employers in Ontario say that they might have to lay off workers, or reduce their hours and benefits because of the planned minimum wage hikes. And in some sectors, the forecast is even more dire. The Human Resources Professionals Association surveyed over 1,100 of its HR professional … Read More
One of the hardest part of a manager’s job is evaluating potential candidates to add to our teams. Here’s why we often get it wrong. You’d think as professionals who have led teams and risen through the ranks at work, most managers would have developed a fine judge of character … Read More
Cosmetic surgery as an investment? More and more men are enhancing their looks to improve their career prospects. The term ‘plastic surgery’ often conjures up images from the movies of people radically altering their appearance to adopt a whole new face. In real life however, cosmetic procedures are most often … Read More
It turns out that certain numbers come up in international lotteries way more often that others. While it should be completely random, and each number turn up an equal amount of times, that’s just not the case. For example, according to new analysis, the number 16 is by far the … Read More
