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by Nir Kshetri, May 1, 2017 Big Wall Street companies are using a complicated technology called blockchain to further increase the already lightning-fast speed of international finance. But it’s not just the upper crust of high finance who can benefit from this new technology.

May 1, 2017 5 Ways the Future of Work Is Changing Last summer, Adobe researchers surveyed over 2,000 office employees and nine thought leaders on the evolving definition of work. Through this exercise, researches uncovered several interesting insights about the future of work, including the most effective “carrots” used to motivate employees.

Temporary hiring blamed for sluggish consumer demand by Yoshiaki Nohara, Bloomberg, May 1, 2017 Japan’s tightest labor market in decades shows signs of reversing a long shift toward the hiring of temporary workers. The number of full-time, permanent workers is rising for the first time since the global financial crisis, outpacing growth in temporary jobs…

If you have listed a San Francisco place on the home rental site, you’re now required to register with the city or be booted from the platform. by Dara Kerr, May 1, 2017 After nearly a year of legal tussles, Airbnb and the city of San Francisco have made nice. The home rental company settled…

By: Frances Mangosing, INQUIRER.net, May 01, 2017 There were 800,000 less jobless Filipinos in the first quarter of 2017 but optimism that there will be more jobs in the next 12 months fell during the same period.

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By: Jerome Aning, Nestor P. Burgos Jr., Philippine Daily Inquirer , May 01, 2017 Thousands of workers and other protesters, including at least 8,000 in Western Visayas, will join Labor Day rallies on Monday to press for higher wages, job security and an end to labor contractualization.

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL By: Jocelyn R. Uy, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 01, 2017 Grade 10 graduates from private schools will get a chance at availing the senior high school (SHS) voucher for the new school year. The Department of Education (DepEd) has announced that it was reopening the application for the SHS voucher program from May…

Earning P400 a day for 17 hours of work means an endless cycle of loans for this barangay watchman, whose wife also takes in laundry to make ends meet By: Sara Isabelle Pacia, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 30, 2017 On the 30th of every month, Leo Cabigting gets his pay as head of the volunteer…

By: Frinston Lim, Inquirer Mindanao, Apr 30, 2017 DAVAO CITY – Fourteen persons, including a woman, were detained for questioning by authorities during operations to hunt down about 100 communist rebels who attacked several businesses owned by the Lorenzo family in Southern Mindanao on Saturday, officials on Sunday said. Ten of the arrested were released…

By: Jerome Aning, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 30, 2017 Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello on Sunday said he has issued an administrative order setting the qualifications and requirements for workers who want to be part of the labor department’s assessment team for labor laws compliance.

Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 29, 2017 Half of Filipinos, or 50 percent, consider themselves poor, according to results of a new Social Weather Stations survey. The number is higher than some 44 percent of Filipinos who described themselves as poor in December.

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By Catherine Talavera (The Philippine Star), Apr 29, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipinos working abroad fell to 2.2 million in 2016 from 2.4 million in 2015, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority’s Survey on Overseas Filipinos.

by PhilippineNews, Apr 29, 2017 By MARLLY ROME C. BONDOC, GMA News A labor group on Saturday expressed dismay at President Rodrigo Duterte for “breaking tradition” and his supposed failure to fulfill his promises ahead of the celebration of Labor Day on Monday.

Ivy Jean Vibar, ABS-CBN News, Apr 29 2017 MANILA – Filipino business process outsourcing workers are upgrading their skills to prepare for the growing use of artificial intelligence, an industry group said.

Travis Bradberry, LinkedIn, Apr. 28, 2017 It’s pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain about — few things are as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door.

Inquirer Northern Luzon, Apr 28, 2017 BAGUIO CITY—A miner died from an accident during a tunnel blasting operation at a small-scale mine in Itogon town in Benguet province on Wednesday morning (April 26), according to a belated report from the Cordillera police Toribio Viscaya, 67, was heard yelling for help after he set off explosive…

Inquirer Northern Luzon, April 28, 2017 BAGUIO CITY—A miner died from an accident during a tunnel blasting operation at a small-scale mine in Itogon town in Benguet province on Wednesday morning (April 26), according to a belated report from the Cordillera police.

I went to this supermarket this morning.  For water, rice, coke, and something else. I queued in the express lane.  Got derailed by the slow check out.  The cashier on the right services six customers for every one done at the express lane. When it was my turn, I asked why?  The ‘barker’ said: Pasensya…

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Is the solution to extreme wealth inequality really – Alaska? by Scott Santens, Apr 26, 2017 Consider the following two headlines and the fact they describe events that are occurring simultaneously: “Grains piled on runways, parking lots, fields amid global glut” and “Famine looms in four countries as aid system struggles to cope, experts warn.”…

Lessons on wealth distribution from the most equal of all US states by Scott Santens, Apr 26, 2017 Consider the following two headlines and the fact they describe events that are occurring simultaneously: “Grains piled on runways, parking lots, fields amid global glut” and “Famine looms in four countries as aid system struggles to cope,…

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Apr 26, 2017 Profits from crony deal: P4B SHOCKING? It certainly is, especially for a paper that had been the loudest megaphone of the anti-Marcos uprising in 1986, and which to this day has reeked with vitriol against the dictator and anybody identified with him.

by CHRISTINE O. AVENDANO AND MARIELLE MEDINA AND KATHLEEN DE VILLA, INQUIRER RESEARCH, Apr 25, 2017 The Palace on Monday said the temporary suspension of the government’s war on drugs became a “window of opportunity” for drug suspects to rob people and steal cars.

Students need more than tech prowess to thrive by Belinda Parmar, Apr 24, 2017 From Blade Runner to I, Robot, the big screens of Hollywood have predicted the rise of the machine. Automated intelligences will wait our tables and drive our cabs. They will serve us by performing menial tasks. But fact is now surpassing…

by Calum Chace, April 24, 2017 One out of three ain’t good Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a fashionable policy idea comprising three elements: it is universal, it is basic, and it is an income. Unfortunately, two of these elements are unhelpful, and to paraphrase Meatloaf, one out of three ain’t good.

By Boo Chanco (The Philippine Star), Apr 24, 2017 The Infrastructure presentation last week was impressive. The use of social media to spread the word around was impressive as well.

Bloomberg News, Apr 24, 2017 Alibaba founder says education can ease blow from automation ‘Machines should only do what humans cannot,’ Ma tells forum Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma said society should prepare for decades of pain as the internet disrupts the economy.