Pharma’s exponential growth in recent years entailed a surge in new jobs and an unprecedented acceleration of digitalisation. Raffaella Maderna of Lundbeck Italy gives us the lowdown on what’s going on.
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Xi Jinping’s government faces a major challenge in the coming years in reskilling its workforce, adapting it to the challenges of automation and digitalisation. Beijing spent 56% of its global investments on education in 2019
Young entrepreneurs have a host of ideas in times of crisis to facilitate entrance into the workforce, especially for the most vulnerable sectors of the population. Here are some of the most innovative ones
Combating the pandemic, and policies for the green transition and women: the US president-elect has presented a detailed plan for launching recovery in the United States, starting with jobs (with equality in mind)
Working women bore the main burden of the pandemic and consequent lockdown. Will things be the same next year too? Not for all and not necessarily. In some spheres, women hold the winning hand when it comes to jobs
Your boss? Nine times out of ten, they think that you will need to acquire new skills for the post-Covid world
According to the World Economic Forum, global gender parity will not be attained for another 99.5 years. To address this, the organisation has launched accelerators’ in a number of countries, public-private solutions to bring about change. Italy would also need one
Italy has hit record levels when it comes to women in employment, yet they are still the lowest in Europe. There is a lack of services, especially nurseries. And there is a need for a system that divides childcare responsibilities equally between the parents
Raffaele Alberto Ventura’s book proposes an original approach to the generational issue of today’s young adults aged 20-30 years. But it lacks insight into the future. Especially, regarding changes that could be wrought by the advent of new artificial intelligence technologies.
In Silicon Valley, there is no field in which investments are greater. And the frontier of deep learning, a possibility for machines to learn autonomously, tends to make futurologists very nervous. But some people think we won’t have anything to worry about.
The workforce is ageing, but seniors are more than just seniors now. And ageing is not the same as before. Much depends on companies.
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.