Work

• [New] What will work is to build back better and build the power of 140 million poor and low-income Americans, hundreds of thousands of West Virginians who are not making a living wage, but who desperately need one.
• [New] Amid fears of a tech-worker stampede out of the Golden State as companies allowed remote work, the population in Silicon Valley - defined as Santa Clara and San Mateo counties - was mostly flat for the year, rising 0.02%.
• [New] 2021 will be the year that companies start creating a better world of work - one that goes far beyond real estate.
• [New] Precision technology which can map soil health, predict potential yields and make the most efficient use of inputs could all help UK farmers compete on a global stage.
• [New] Although based in the UK, the Global Embed Manager will have responsibility for employees on several continents and will need to be flexible in adjusting work hours as needed.
• [New] Not only should workers be reachable any time a digital meeting is due; at the same time, up to 50% of all the jobs in the United States are threatened by digitization.
• [New] Should the UK be faced with a no-deal exit, any hope of recovery for manufacturing would likely go into reverse, with job losses likely to come in its wake.
• [New] As the world of work transforms at a rate of knots, people are upskilling to take advantage of new opportunities.
• [New] The production of complex platforms like the K-9 Vajra contributes to the Indian economy with a large multiplier effect, creates new job opportunities and plays a significant role in enhancing India's Industrial ecosystem.
• [New] In India, the share of total work hours expended using physical and manual skills will decline by 2.2 percentage points, while time devoted to technological skills will rise 3.3 percentage points.
• [New] The share of time German workers spend using basic cognitive skills, for example, may shrink by 3.4 percentage points, while time spend using social and emotional skills will increase by 3.2 percentage points.
• [New] North Carolina, plans to vaccinate farmworkers and other frontline essential workers in the state's Group 3, following healthcare workers and people 65-years old or older, which belong to Groups 1 and 2 respectively.
• [New] Employees working abroad for prolonged periods could acquire local employment rights, despite having a UK employer.
• [New] In 2021 CDC will invest over $1.5bn in companies in Africa and Asia with a focus on fighting climate change, empowering women and creating new jobs and opportunities for millions of people.
• [New] Making health information more congruent with and relevant for lower SES individuals who tend be more interpersonally oriented will help to encourage behavior change and close the gap in SES health disparities.
• [New] A higher sense of control may be particularly protective for lower SES individuals, and could impact the likelihood that individuals engage in healthy behaviors, as they believe that their actions can influence their outcomes.
• [New] Future studies are needed to explore how neural activity within the VS and sub regions of the MPFC in response to a variety of social-focused health messages predict future behavior change among lower SES individuals.
• [New] Future work could explore if neural activity in response to messages that focus on others' disapproval of unhealthy choices or failing others' expectations predicts future behavior change among lower SES populations.
• [New] Integrating the unique values and beliefs about the self and close others observed among lower SES individuals could facilitate the design of messaging campaigns that are more equitable, relevant, and more likely to give rise to behavior change.
• [New] Building resilient and sustainable infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather and a changing climate will play an integral role in creating jobs and meeting Biden's goal of a net-zero emissions future.

Last updated: 21 February 2021