via Santi Garcia: 91% of #Amazon#Blind#ReturnToOffice#RTO#FutureOfWork#RemoteWork … 1/2

via Baldur Bjarnason: 📉📈 “Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants | CIO” https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html?amp=1 > Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study … 1/3

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

In their call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed https://johnquiggin.com/2024/09/27/in-their-plaintive-call-for-a-return-to-the-office-ceos-reveal-how-little-they-are-needed/ "…corporations that have managed to enforce full-time office attendance fall into … 1/3

In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed

My latest in The Guardian Announcements from major employers, including Amazon and Tabcorp, that workers will be required to return to the office five days a week have a familiar ring. Th…

📉📈 Break Up Big Econ: The economics profession has become insular & status-obsessed, & not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/break-big-econ/679748/ "…the empirical turn in economics may have made our concentration … 1/3

Break Up Big Econ

The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world.

📉📈 The Arrival of Field Experiments in Economics https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/09/23/the-arrival-of-field-experiments-in-economics/ "… experiments shouldn’t be designed with the “petri dish” mindset, but instead can be designed to think in advance about “what constraints will the … 1/2

The Quest to Imagine a Workplace that Actually Values Work-Life Balance https://behavioralscientist.org/the-quest-to-imagine-a-workplace-that-actually-values-work-life-balance/#workLifeBalance & they wanted to be better The … 1/2

The Quest to Imagine a Workplace that (Actually) Values Work-Life Balance - by Brigid Schulte - Behavioral Scientist

Work-life balance is about making trade-offs. How might we design workplaces that encourage employees to choose the right ones?

via Joëlle Weis: 📉📈 Does anyone in my timeline know MA or PhD candidates researching the academic labour market (anytime between the 18th century and today) from a historical perspective? Retooting much appreciated! 😊 #EconSkyhttps://fedihum.org/@jojoweis/113168912179771431

via Tom Gauld: My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books. orig https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oflombnj6v6xyohhatfkbzyd/post/3l4npthlgyk2o

via 404 Media: Wordfreq, an open source tool that analyzed trends in human language usage in 40 languages, shut down because "generative AI has polluted the data" and there is so much AI spam that it is now very difficult to analyze broad trends in how people write … 1/2

📉📈 Comparing Indeed Data With Public Employment #Statistics:https://www.hiringlab.org/2024/09/20/comparing-indeed-data-with-public-employment-statistics/ "Indeed’s online job posting data captures all major sectors and occupations in … 1/3

Comparing Indeed Data With Public Employment Statistics: Evaluating Indeed’s Representativeness for Researchers - Indeed Hiring Lab

Indeed's job posting data for many of the world’s largest economies aligns fairly well with governmental statistics on job vacancies, new hires, and wages.