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In recent years, the thinking on the future of work has focused on the need to reconfigure jobs—not to reimagine or replace them entirely. The reasoning goes like this: As alternative approaches to work have emerged such as artificial intelligence, automation, and off-balance-sheet talent, we need to disaggregate the job into component tasks, determine which tasks can be performed more optimally by smart machines or alternative talent outside of the organization’s walls, and then reassemble the remaining tasks with new ones to create a newly reconfigured job. Employees are then reskilled, upskilled, or outskilled to once again meet the needs of the newly reconfigured job, with automation substituting for, augmenting, or transforming the human worker’s role

Being out-of-touch is totally in, QR codes are quickly finding a new home and robots are strolling the line between novelty and value. This is what retail innovation will look like in 2022.

Despite calls for understanding and compassion over COVID-19’s massive disruption and an ensuing trend toward empathetic leadership, there’s just no escaping meanness: As many as 75% of employees report that they have been a target of or have witnessed bullying at work, which has affected an estimated 79.3 million U.S. workers, according to the Workplace Bullying Institute.

The 2021 Workforce Trends Report: Career Wellbeing highlights engagement and compensation, presenting recent data and insights on current and emerging trends to help employers optimize their investments and remain competitive. The full report includes:

How concerns about pent-up turnover are increasing employer focus on engagement strategies

This is a contributed article. See our Guest Posting guidelines to learn more about contributed content. Photo by Boxed Water Is Better on Unsplash The grocery industry is going through a highly disruptive period. Amazon is now bringing a brand new business model to the sector where customers literally walk in, pick

“UNCERTAINTY” is mentioned over and over again by Chief Learning Officers and talent executives from major organizations as we head into 2022 in a few days. Uncertain about the location of work in the coming weeks/months of an evolving COVID era. Uncertain about the future of face-to-face learning events

To successfully run a small business, you need to know how to analyze larger trends and turn those trends into impactful, on-the-ground strategy.

Ready to impactfully act on 2022's consumer trends? 
We’ve unlocked 22 emerging consumer trends and business opportunities you can’t afford to miss, plus advice on how to turn them into innovations of your own.

Deloitte’s 13th annual Tech Trends report explores seven trends that can help organizations unlock innovation and build trust in their digital journey.

LPs accounted for 38 percent of album sales in the United States, which is quite substantial. Factoring in streaming and downloads of single tracks, however, that number drops to 4.7 percent of album equivalent music consumption, which puts things in perspective.

New research published in the Journal of Religion and Health has found faith in God and trust in a higher power declined across the course of the pandemic. The German survey found the longer the pandemic went on, the more people seemed to lose their faith in God.

Kids have a special way of cultivating creativity--and some even see their crafty ideas develop into lucrative business opportunities. Did you know that kids invented the trampoline, popsicles, and earmuffs?

2022 is the year of contrast, where the future stands side by side with the past. It's a time when AI-generated music and the metaverse gain momentum to elevate user experience. On the other hand, Y2K aesthetics and 70s psychedelic art help content creators spark nostalgia and better connect with their audience.

Meeting the unexpected with the expected requires a review of the basics: Namely, how shoppers are using stores, what cements their purchase decisions and how they pay. These five trends embody activities and services that click with consumers, through novelty, ease or necessity.

An overhyped trend can be something so sweet that it leaves a sour taste in your mouth, or so in the spotlight that it leaves more important topics in the shadows. “Overhype” might mean something that’s profitable, sure. But it still falls short of its sanctimonious positioning or actual ability to impact and improve our world.

Without further ado, here are the most overhyped trends of 2022.

THERE will be more innovation in the next 10 years than in humanity’s entire history, a major event organised by promotional agency Guernsey Finance has heard.

The Nov. 30, 2021, mass shooting at a Michigan high school was the 53rd school shooting at a U.S. school in the first 11 months of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In the more than 22 years since the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, numerous attacks have fed the debate over what can prevent this uniquely American phenomenon if drastic changes in access to guns are off the table. These stories explore the approaches that show promise – and one that deserves skepticism.. Explore this storyboard about Mass Shootings, New England, Education by Solutions Journalism Network on Flipboard.

The report highlights various cultural trends and shifts, as defined by younger Instagram users.