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Sidewalk Labs has an ambitious project: to make every single aspect of the city smart. But the most serious doubts concern how the data of the residents will be handled
A Cornell University study has revealed that eating together is key to team building, a trend that is rapidly gaining ground in Italy
If you can work from home, why not work while travelling? Smart working brings with it a revolution in the human tendency towards permanent settlement. There are already numerous start-ups that offer the opportunity to work while travelling.
Digital technology is turning the sector on its head. And while Fico Eataly World – the greatest food park in the world – opens in Bologna, small start-ups are turning more and more to new technologies. Which need completely new skill sets.
The mythical idea of the tireless, submissive worker? A thing of the past. The ability to awaken the emotional intelligence of employees forms the basis of a more efficient management of human resources
With a wealth of almost $80bn, he is the second richest man on the planet and an investor who has never missed a shot. Here’s why, at almost ninety years of age, Warren Buffett remains the mentor all startuppers would love to have.
After twenty years and four reforms, we are still one of the world’s more rigid labour markets: a consequence of reforms that concerned only part of the workforce. One of the many (too many) things that we lack to be (at least) on a European level
The personal care assistance sector employs 3.8 million workers in Italy and is destined to grow, generating positive economic effects for the rest of the Italian economy
Ten years on from the start of the recession, there are a number of widespread professions that did not exist before 2007. However, other jobs, especially in the crafts industry, are rapidly disappearing.
More and more CEOs are using social network platforms as digital reputation tools
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.