GM plans to lay off about 14,000 factory and white-collar workers.
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And for many white collar workers, the new policies are a relief.
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Some of the pinch will be coming to white-collar workers too.
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To be sure, overall salary levels remain higher for white-collar workers.
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" As if the oppressed white-collar workers of the world were crying, "Help!
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What's more, female white-collar workers could not earn enough to support themselves.
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Educated, white-collar workers are being hit with job cuts and shrinking paychecks.
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White-collar workers attempt to make square meals from free Chobani yogurt cups.
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Nor will more educated white-collar workers get a pass on the AI disruption.
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The president also improved his standing with women and blue- and white-collar workers.
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Coronavirus just dropped white-collar workers in the middle of America's biggest accidental experiment
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The pro-Cho crowds are more diverse, including many young, urban white-collar workers.
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McGovernism to white-collar workers was part of a longer trend in both the composition
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For now, it's mostly urban and white-collar workers paying closer attention to their diets.
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The treaty's provisions became standard throughout industry, even among white-collar workers in manufacturing plants.
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At smaller companies that employ mostly white-collar workers, the ratio can be much lower.
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Take, for instance, how the internet has changed the way white-collar workers find jobs.
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That is not good news for white-collar workers, and the overall income picture remains flat.
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White-collar workers and self-employed people also make up a sizeable part of their voters.
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Just as automation made factories more efficient, AI can help white-collar workers be more productive.
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In the past several years, it's taken on more white-collar workers in engineering and IT management.
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And food shortages are so severe that white-collar workers could be forced to work the fields.
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Like many other white collar workers, we are expected to be tethered to our phones 24/85033.
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Among them are white collar workers in private sectors and owners of small to medium-sized businesses.
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The pressure to provide paid parental leave has been mounting, both for white collar workers and hourly workers.
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Offices for white-collar workers and shops selling luxury goods won't benefit the middle class, Mr. Shiffman added.
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What's new: Now, there's evidence that wages are up — and for blue-collar workers, not white-collar workers.
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So far, Google's full-time, white collar workers in the US haven't made any formal movement to unionize.
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A report by Chinese jobs website Zhaopin showed competition among white-collar workers for jobs intensified in the spring.
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White-collar workers and new-economy industries like e-commerce and green tech are also dealing with labor struggles.
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To some extent, it determines whether they will become blue-collar or white-collar workers later in their lives.
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The salary cuts for the white-collar workers are expected to be repaid no later than next March 15.
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DON'T MEET ME AT THE WATER COOLER As white collar workers return to offices, many are reluctant to socialise.
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The pair sold Basmati rice platters and burritos with black bean dressing to white-collar workers in office parks.
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The HCL workers at Google were the first white-collar workers — a historically difficult group to organize — to unionize.
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Most of Luckin's outlets are merely kiosks where busy white-collar workers pick up their drinks, having ordered them online.
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Even on Monday, a large number of workplaces will remain closed and many white-collar workers were working from home.
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Domestically focused service industries like software, health care and financial services are doing well, lifting incomes among white-collar workers.
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Nor is there much data on drug use among lawyers compared with the general population or white-collar workers specifically.
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White-collar workers in the USA are most likely to get paid leave, and hourly workers are the least likely.
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"These employees are white-collar workers who speak Japanese and have studied the theory of technology at university," said the manager.
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Now, he says, up to 20 percent of white-collar workers in those industries are taking part in the disappearing acts.
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Adobe's fourth annual Consumer Email Survey report polled more than 1,000 white-collar workers of all age groups older than 18.
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"That's a kind of warning signal for us," says Martin Linder, president of Unionen, which represents some 640,000 white-collar workers.
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The foreigners who've made the trek to the wilayats aren't necessarily expected to fight; the Islamic State welcomes white-collar workers too.
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Back then, seats were fairly uniform, their politics overwhelmingly a function of the ratio of white-collar workers to blue-collar ones.
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Although numbers are hard to come by, an ethnic Chinese brain drain appears to be robbing Malaysia of qualified white-collar workers.
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Historically, full-time white-collar workers at major tech companies like Google have been reluctant to unionize or even openly discuss unionization.
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Even on Monday, a large number of workplaces will remain closed and many white-collar workers will continue to work from home.
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Given how widely applicable machine learning seems to be, such pronouncements are bound to alarm white-collar workers, from engineers to lawyers.
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White-collar workers and the well-to-do classes have a long history in the city and its suburbs, too, of course.
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The state's metropolitan areas continue to prosper, with an influx of white-collar workers drawn to their thriving finance and technology sectors.
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In South Korea, white-collar workers' salaries and job titles in their 60s can often be predicted by which university they attended.
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White-collar workers at multinationals might hesitate to move back to Portugal if there are no comparable jobs, says Mr Nuno Cardiga.
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Adobe polled more than 1,000 white-collar workers of all generations 18 and older to learn about their email and technology habits.
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Adobe recently surveyed more than 1,000 white-collar workers to learn more about email trends -- and the email phrases people hate most.
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Most white-collar workers already get some form of paid vacation, and unionized workers usually receive it as part of their contracts.
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Interestingly, when looking at white-collar workers in India, it appeared that it made little difference whether the two parties shared a religion.
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And these women in US media, as white-collar workers, have more room than, say, low-wage or undocumented workers to come forward.
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Job losses are already a problem among young white-collar workers as the country's tech sector has slowed over the winter and spring.
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I saw it partly as a labor story, since computers are beginning to displace white-collar workers in that field and many others.
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Kickstarter employees voted to form a union with the Office and Professional Employees International Union, which represents more than 240,215 white collar workers.
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The stifling censorship leaves intellectuals, young white-collar workers and retired veterans of past political campaigns using roundabout ways to voice their concerns.
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The hotel's typical guests are white-collar workers tied to the financial services or technology companies that have recently relocated to the area.
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Around a nation unaccustomed to widespread working from home, the epidemic has forced millions of white-collar workers to get used to just that.
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With a plethora of white-collar workers and good infrastructure, the city provides a better option to other places that would require more investment.
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This is unusual in South Korea, where male white-collar workers are expected to put in punishing hours and then go drinking with colleagues.
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They need talented white collar workers, so they adapt by trying to make a more "meaningful" company and environment for millennials to work in.
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Qudian operates a website that allows college students and young white-collar workers to buy laptops, smartphones and other consumer electronics on monthly installments.
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Plans to close plants in Michigan, Ohio and Maryland have been announced, and some 8,000 white-collar workers are expected to be laid off.
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Men are more confident than women by a 64 to 57 percent margin, and blue-collar workers are more confident than white-collar workers.
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The teacher uprising that began in West Virginia has exposed a trend among white-collar workers: a feeling that their credentials are being devalued.
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But by and large, white-collar workers at tech companies have stopped short of collective bargaining, even as the labor movement has courted them.
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Even beyond the service sector, more and more white-collar workers are having their time invaded by emails, Slack messages, and other work responsibilities.
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For fresh college grads and junior white-collar workers, it is hard to go off a traditional resumé because experience can be unconventional at best.
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And around a nation unaccustomed to widespread working from home, the epidemic has forced millions of white-collar workers to get used to just that.
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It has a deep vein of support in coal country, and nuclear power plants provide well-paying jobs for both blue- and white-collar workers.
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Already, Amazon's white collar workers have been asked to work from home, but that's obviously not an option for warehouse fulfillment workers and delivery drivers.
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Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation extending the benefits to white-collar workers, but according to a report released Dec.
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Homelessness is super sad, President Donald Trump conceded — at least for the white-collar workers walking by unsheltered people to get into their office buildings.
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So a raucous protest like this served as a jarring new tactic to pressure greenhouse gas emitters: targeting the white-collar workers that protect them.
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The staff members voted 47 to 36 to affiliate with the Office and Professional Employees International Union, which represents more than 100,000 white collar workers.
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The staff members voted 47 to 36 to affiliate with the Office and Professional Employees International Union, which represents more than 85033,000 white collar workers.
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The two technology companies chose cities with a wealth of white-collar workers and high employment, bypassing other regions that may have required more investment.
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So far, university degrees have been a reliable proxy for skill but this may change as artificial intelligence starts taking jobs away from white-collar workers.
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China-based Qudian operates a website that allows college students and young white-collar workers to buy laptops, smartphones and other consumer electronics on monthly installments.
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The professionals, managers, white-collar workers and business owners who make up China's middle class are a source of hope and anxiety for the nation's leaders.
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The Chinese economy will sputter towards normal on Monday, although many workplaces will remain closed and many white-collar workers will continue to work from home.
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Indeed, as the New York Times reported in 2015, Amazon has experimented with data-driven management techniques known to drive some white-collar workers to tears.
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They argue that blue-collar workers provide the flexibility, having to accept lower pay and less job security, whereas white-collar workers and bosses are protected.
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One recent study also suggested that white-collar workers are more likely to die form ALS, compared to people who are less affluent and less educated.
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In addition to manufacturers, white-collar workers in business, finance, and tech industries face greater career consequences of AI impact when the technology becomes more advanced.
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It's been emptier than usual as more and more New Yorkers (mostly people like me, who are white-collar workers) are asked to work from home.
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But understanding how these white-collar workers occupy themselves when they get to their desks in skyscrapers and office parks across America takes a little imagination.
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About 80 Google contractors in Pittsburgh voted to unionize with United Steelworkers on Tuesday, in a historic move for white-collar workers at the search giant.
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Maezawa decided he was not interested in a traditional career after he constantly saw "salarymen" (Japan's white-collar workers) looking miserable on his commute to school.
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White-collar workers face job cuts and shrinking paychecks even in go-go industries like technology, suggesting the economic pain is broader than official figures show.
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These are generally white-collar workers, but out-of-pocket costs for employer-sponsored insurance (which those workers typically have) have also gone up in recent years.
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In that regard, focusing on newer markets — specifically the developing world and later-adopters among the global class of white-collar workers — makes a lot of sense.
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While the housing sector is among the worst-hit in China's economic slowdown, the pain is being felt by blue- and white-collar workers in other industries.
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GOP tax negotiators are promising there will be "guard rails" to ensure that rich doctors, lawyers, money managers and other white collar workers don't game the system.
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So far, most of the world is not impacted by social distancing, and white-collar workers in the impacted cities are just doing a lot of teleconferencing.
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White-collar workers increasingly claim disability, even if they are more likely to hurt themselves swiveling in a Herman Miller Aeron chair than handling a band saw.
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Lawyers have been described as the canaries in the coal mine in the face of a wave of automation now beginning to displace highly skilled white-collar workers.
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Thank you to our firefighters, blue collar workers, white collar workers, police officers, district directors, those responsible for water supplies, etc.. for your magnificent contribution, Solidarity and Professionalism.
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But in practice it's not much more than a way for white-collar workers to field occasional inquiries from recruiters and vendors who pay dearly for the privilege.
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Fissures have also deepened between the two halves of the postwar middle class: between college-educated, mostly white-collar workers and high-school-educated, mostly blue-collar workers.
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The local economy skews toward white-collar workers and professionals and does not depend on the manufacturing revival Trump has promised in his "Make America Great Again" message.
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The 8,000 white-collar workers who are expected to lose their positions will also have plenty of options outside the auto industry, especially if they're willing to move.
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But it has also hurt a different kind of migrant: educated and ambitious white-collar workers drawn to the city's new economy of tech, finance and hospitality industries.
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Usage of Zoom has spiked as white-collar workers under lockdown switch from meetings to video calls, but it's also under growing scrutiny for its privacy and security.
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Their economies revolve more around services and information technology and bend more toward the white-collar workers who have resisted Trump far more than a typical GOP president.
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Kickstarter workers are now the first white collar workers at a major tech company to successfully unionize in the United States, sending a message to other tech workers.
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Without question, the overall unemployment rate alone could never indicate this astonishing new trend: Blue-collar workers are now scarcer and harder to recruit than white-collar workers.
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In one of the city's most congested areas, it provide an oasis for the white collar workers and wealthy elites that have populated the Flatiron District for centuries.
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As a result, there's a new class of white-collar workers (or no collar, to be precise) who roam the earth looking for places to get their jobs done.
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An online survey by the job recruitment company Zhilian Zhaopin said two-thirds of more than 10,000 white-collar workers it surveyed were not expecting Lunar New Year bonuses.
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On many campuses, teaching and research assistants are essentially low-paid, white-collar workers, typically earning around $30,000 a year, most of whom will never get tenure-track positions.
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This means high cost, urbanized areas — which already skew toward accommodating upwardly mobile and wealthy white collar workers — could see the working-class segments of their workforces further undercut.
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"White-collar workers are able to have a different conversation because they have more agency in the workplace, and they also have more resources and higher wages," Kashen says.
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As more white collar workers work remotely due to concerns over the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, companies like Zoom, Slack, and Dropbox could benefit from increased usage, analysts say.
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No. 4: an order from the minister of manpower against the S.D.P. for various posts and an online article claiming that unemployment was rising among Singaporean white-collar workers.
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This canvas tote is carried by 12-year-olds on field trips, by harried white-collar workers with their laptops, by the homeless and by many, many stylish people.
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Manual workers were also more likely to vote for Hofer than white-collar workers, with over 85 percent of the Freedom Party's vote reportedly coming from the manual labor sector.
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Targeted at white-collar workers, users unlock each self-service capsule at Xiangshui Space with an app, climb in, and — after a refreshing nap — lock it on their way out.
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Many of the bars affected by the new alcohol ban maintain close ties to the city's tech sector, acting as informal meeting places for its legions of white collar workers.
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In "The Meeting Game (in progress)," Caroline Woolard places stress ball-like anonymous objects around a mundane conference table, giving imagined white-collar workers something to do with their hands.
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Most experts agree a discussion around shorter workweeks is a good start, as it suggests — but Kashen says non-white-collar workers must be at the center of this discussion.
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New data suggests white-collar workers — even those whose work presumes more analytic thinking, higher paychecks, and relative job security — may not be safe from the relentless drumbeat of automation.
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There is not a lot of hard data to suggest a big shift from white-collar workers into blue-collar jobs, but there is a strong push to recruit them.
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In the last expansion, it fell as low as 12.5 percent, implying that millions of square feet of offices are sitting idle, ready for white-collar workers to fill them.
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Jamieson noted that the majority of tech organizing efforts involve service workers at corporate headquarters for platforms like Facebook rather than white-collar workers, such as those unionizing at Kickstarter.
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Experts say virtual assistants have the potential to dramatically alter the lives of white-collar workers, providing employers with unimaginable levels of data that can be analyzed to improve decision-making.
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SHANGHAI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - In a nation unaccustomed to widespread working from home, China's coronavirus epidemic is forcing millions of white-collar workers to get used to business outside the office.
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Nearly half of WeWork's white-collar workers think they're going to be laid off, according to a survey of 623 WeWork employees Recode conducted through the anonymous workplace-discussion app Blind.
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The rest of the users tend to be other white-collar workers — not the people actually working in warehouses, but presumably people with an understanding of the company as a whole.
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But industry sources, including three company CEOs, told Reuters that job cuts were widespread and tens of thousands of white-collar workers had been laid off in the last two years.
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In the New York map of Equinox locations, Midtown isn't short of outposts — Equinox isn't blind to the opportune convenience they can provide to the throngs of midtown white-collar workers.
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Impact: As white-collar workers start to feel the pinch, they're tightening their belts and spending less money, which will have a trickle-down effect across other parts of the economy.
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Fiat Chrysler will temporarily defer the salaries of its white-collar workers by 20% for the next three months as the automaker attempts to save cash to weather the coronavirus crisis.
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Those workers are less likely than white-collar workers to have paid sick leave, and they are less likely to have the financial resources to weather a period of reduced income.
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As concerns over the coronavirus spread, more white collar workers are working from home and in areas where schools have been closed, educators are struggling to keep students up to date.
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Backed by Alibaba's banking unit Ant Financial, Qudian operates a website that allows college students and young white-collar workers to buy laptops, smartphones and other consumer electronics on monthly installments.
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It exempts certain white-collar workers like doctors and accountants, but it extends legal protections to tens of thousands of low-paid workers in fields like construction, janitorial services and hairstyling.
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These protests fall within an extended moment of unprecedented workplace activism led by white collar workers at tech companies over a range of issues including sexual harassment, carbon emissions, and military contracts.
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Of course, white collar workers already have their wall: it's called the H1 visa, and it means they don't have to compete with every graduate of IIT or Tsinghua for a job.
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The authors of the Monster report set out to explore the hypothesis that the scandal-ridden presidential election cycle was actually driving citizens, especially white-collar workers, to consider moving up north.
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WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - Investors on Tuesday shrugged off media reports that Ford Motor Co will announce plans to cut thousands of white-collar workers, highlighting the challenges facing Chief Executive Mark Fields.
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Of last year's figure, 8.1 million were migrants from other parts of China — mostly menial laborers but also white-collar workers, some of whom have also been displaced by the recent removals.
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Analysts at Baird agree with that assessment and think that companies that make communications and collaboration tools are poised to do well as more white collar workers need to work from home.
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"I think it's consistent with the assumptions that people make about the political leaning of highly educated, white-collar workers in communities like San Francisco and other towns," he told The Hill.
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So they were less than grateful when DingTalk, originally designed for China's white collar workers, adapted to the virus outbreak by offering the service to help educate primary and middle school teenagers.
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A narrower survey by the Boston College Center for Work and Family — of 1,240 white-collar workers at four companies that offer gender-neutral paid leave — also found widespread support for leave.
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Both sides can point to evidence in their favor -- people coming out to clear streets of barricades; sympathy protests by white-collar workers -- but this week, we will finally get an answer.
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The white-collar workers of sura 57 don't look particularly happy, whether they're busy at work in their cubicles, eating dinner at a sushi restaurant, or walking listlessly back to their cars.
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But he conceded it could be a threat to even white collar workers who do not pro-actively upskill and get to grips with using AI-enabled tools to intelligently augment their labor.
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Firing with severance pay would be the first, followed by a delayed bill allowing well-paid, white-collar workers to be paid by performance rather than the number of hours they clock up.
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GM is cutting 15 percent of its 54,000 North American salaried workforce and plans to lay off thousands of white-collar workers in January after some workers agreed to incentives to depart voluntarily.
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Blind users tend to skew more toward software engineers and other white-collar workers and thus are more likely to represent WeWork's tech workforce than people who help with WeWork's daily on-site operations.
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Last November, GM let go of 15% of its white-collar workers, about 8,000 people, even as its Cruise self-driving unit in Silicon Valley is doubling its software and engineering staff to 2,000.
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While the oil-rich province has a long boom and bust history, executive recruiters say pessimism is deeper than in past, with a growing number of white-collar workers looking for more stable careers.
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For them, the new threat is not so much the machine, it's the algorithms that are being used to complete cognitive tasks currently performed by white collar workers in fields like law and medicine.
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In May, Google hired a union busting consulting firm to stamp out efforts to organize the company, an unprecedented move for a major tech company looking to resolve issues with its white collar workers.
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The Obama rule, which we worked closely on, would have raised the "overtime threshold" to ensure that white collar workers making less than $220006,2202 per year got overtime, giving 2628 million workers greater protections.
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It's thought to be the first time that white-collar workers at the search giant have tried to officially unionize (some Google service contractors, such as security guards, have successfully unionized in recent years).
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As Japan underwent an "economic miracle" from the late 1940s to the the late '80s, during which it became the world's second-largest economy after the United States, Japan's male white-collar workers increased.
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As the labor movement continues to gain wider support among white collar workers — a demographic that includes Instagram's own staff — the company may be forced to reckon with memers' demands in one way or another.
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Requiring white-collar workers to sign non-compete agreements is common and frequent legal battles over the validity of such agreements focus on the length of time they are in effect and their geographical limits.
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France Télécom and Foxconn are at different ends of the globalization spectrum – one employs white-collar workers in high-tech service occupations and the other recruits young rural migrants to work on the assembly line.
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The automaker, which started handing pink slips to more than 2000,220 white-collar workers Monday, expects its plan to save about $270 billion in cash through 2020 with about half of that coming this year.
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The intention of such initiatives is that white-collar workers, who often endure daily commutes of an hour or two, will have more fruitful journeys during which business, friendship and maybe even romance will develop.
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Qudian, backed by Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial and became profitable last year, operates a website that allows college students and young white-collar workers to buy laptops, smartphones and other consumer electronics in monthly installments.
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To be clear, we're not talking about the arms race in the corporate and technology worlds to provide deluxe doses of paid parental leave — like the whole year that white-collar workers receive at Netflix.
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A 2015 New York Times expose detailed the grueling expectations placed on Amazon's white collar workers, and story after story after story keeps bubbling up that details the inhumane conditions faced by Amazon's warehouse employees.
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It's worth noting that over 57 percent of Nepal's population lives off of less than $2 a day, and a good salary for white-collar workers in the Kathmandu valley is around $300 per month.
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Independent churches like Early Rain, with more than 500 members, have attracted large followings in recent years, especially among white-collar workers seeking an escape from rampant materialism at the center of modern Chinese life.
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In large part this resulted from a generational divide that is the inverse of the global norm: the best-paid workers in China tend to be younger, the country's first big generation of white-collar workers.
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While Starbucks zeroes in on the brick-and-mortar experience, Luckin is a network of last-mile coffee delivery centers, plus places for people to pick up orders and sit down, targeting busy white-collar workers.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - For China's sleep-deprived white-collar workers needing a place for a nap, a booming "sharing economy" offering a growing range of services has come up with a cheap, mobile-friendly solution: capsule hotels.
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Wages, too, have begun to surge, and not just for white-collar workers at the upper end of the pay spectrum, said James Parrott, chief economist with the Fiscal Policy Institute, a union-backed research group.
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GM last week announced deferred payments of 20% for all of its white-collar workers, while Ford said the automaker's top 300 executives would defer 20% to 50% of their salaries for at least five months.
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Hundreds of Amazon employees have openly violated the company's communications policy by publicly criticizing their employer, in what is arguably the largest act of collective disobedience yet by white collar workers at a major tech company.
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While most of Silicon Valley's white-collar workers are working from home and the masses are being asked to self-isolate, Uber and Lyft drivers, Grubhub and Seamless delivery drivers, and Instacart shoppers continue to work.
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Why concentrate on the tiny minority of workers in union jobs when there are so many blue-collar, pink-collar, and even white-collar workers who can't get anything close to a fair deal from their bosses?
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Information technology has also destroyed or decimated the jobs of many white-collar workers, such as computers (which used to be a job title), typographers, insurance adjusters, travel agents, stock traders, financial advisors, and customer service agents.
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"Very often when we think about life conflict and over work we have a vision of white-collar workers in mind," says Daniel Schneider, a researcher at the Shift Project at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Only 60 percent of workers in service occupations can take paid time off when they are ill — and they are also more likely than white-collar workers to come in contact with other people's bodies or food.
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That said, it appears to be the case that fine particulate pollution induces cognitive impairments in school children, white collar workers, blue collar workers, and the elderly — in other words, all people at all stages of life.
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As the series went on, I wanted a more intimate story and not just fleeting moments of the homeless and white-collar workers interacting on a surface level — I was interested in the stories people wanted to share.
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Corporate Vs. Hourly: A Big Difference While white-collar workers have been benefiting from the "talent war" to attract top-level workers, low-wage workers are often left out of these benefits — sometimes even at the same companies.
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A computer that dispenses expert radiology advice is just one example of how jobs currently done by highly trained white-collar workers can be automated, thanks to the advance of deep learning and other forms of artificial intelligence.
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But it is not clear that Dubai's transport industries and business zones can continue growing fast enough to attract, and retain, the number of foreign white-collar workers needed to support demand in its real estate market, Malik said.
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For the first time, white collar workers in the United States are facing what our blue collar brethren have experienced the past three decades: sliding salaries and benefits as their jobs were outsourced, the downsizing of the American dream.
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However, the growing recognition among white-collar workers that their labor is a precondition to the carrying out of unjust policies — and that if they withhold that labor, they can help bring these policies to a halt — is critical.
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This sparked a last-ditch move by Fields a week ago to cut white-collar workers, potentially irritating jobs-obsessed President Donald Trump, with whom the company clashed over plans to move production of some small cars to Mexico.
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That proposal, which is being reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget, is widely expected to narrow an exemption for white-collar workers from overtime pay protections based on the percentage of time they spend on management tasks.
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Jet employs about 1,300 engineers, executives and other white-collar workers at its Hoboken headquarters and is planning to hire more than 100 workers in its Bronx fulfillment center, a warehouse where customer orders will be prepared and shipped.
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This spurred a last-ditch move by Mr. Fields a week ago to cut white-collar workers, potentially irritating President Trump, with whom the company had also clashed over plans to move production of some small cars to Mexico.
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And despite the "perks," like free beer and ping-pong tables, white collar workers are pressured to give their companies more and more of their time and attention, even when its shareholders who take home most of the rewards.
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Only the privileged fear a robot revolution Leading venture capitalists, scientists and CEOs all have the same prediction for artificial intelligence: machines will take jobs away from both blue- and white-collar workers, "eat the world" and, ultimately, overthrow humanity.
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A survey conducted by the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry on March 25 showed that 2000 percent of large corporations have implemented remote working procedures, but a strict working culture has kept even white-collar workers in the office.
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"I think what they're really expressing, and most white-collar workers would never say this, is that these technologies are appropriating time at the beginning and end of days, without any kind of payment," he said in a phone interview.
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Just a short drive away from Downtown Los Angeles, Montebello has long attracted government employees and other white-collar workers eager to buy modest single-family homes — a kind of "promised land" for those looking to get out of the city.
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A recent study conducted by Consumer Research Around Cannabis actually showed that pot consumers in the Los Angeles Greater Metropolitan Area are more likely than non-users to be white collar workers who are employed full time and regularly exercise.
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This summer, rents in China's major cities soared in the double-digits, forcing the people that Xi vowed to help – many of them white-collar workers or recent college graduates – to downgrade to smaller flats and relocate to less desirable neighborhoods.
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A Slate piece from earlier this month explained this phenomenon, citing the recent organizing efforts of media brands like Fast Company, Gimlet, and Vox Media, universities like Columbia, and the Google walkout as evidence of labor's new appeal for white collar workers.
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In conversations on how coronavirus affected work in East and Southeast Asia, white-collar workers expressed greater feelings of job security than low-earning workers, and some small-business owners reported losing their jobs or pay as a result of the outbreak.
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The liberal Economic Policy Institute estimates that 4.9 million people will become newly eligible for overtime, slightly more than the government's figure, and that an additional 7.6 million will benefit because they have previously been denied overtime pay as white collar workers.
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The overwhelming majority of the funding is headed to high-tech R&D and early-stage development projects, great for white-collar workers but not so much for the blue-collar men and women to whom President Trump has made so many promises.
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While many white collar workers will have the option of working from home during the worst of the outbreak, service industry and gig workers have found themselves either vulnerable to virus exposure or losing their jobs when their services are no longer needed.
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With little more than faddish interior design, free beer and an invitation to socialize with strangers, Mr. Neumann claims to have conjured up a whole new paradigm for white-collar workers — and for education — and vows that it can change the world.
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Recent interviews with two dozen voters there, a mix of blue- and white-collar workers, revealed the full Democratic spectrum, from progressives eager for a nominee who leans hard left, to party apostates who voted for Mr. Trump and remain solidly behind him.
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The conventional wisdom is that A.I. might soon put millions of people out of work — that it stands poised to do to clerical and white collar workers over the next two decades what mechanization did to factory workers over the past two.
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He blames this largely on the rise of the financial and information sectors and on what he calls "managerial feudalism," in which companies keep adding supervisors and white-collar workers, rather than sharing with blue-collar workers the fruits of their increased productivity.
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While a new reality for white-collar workers, it's been a common occurrence for farm laborers, domestic workers, waitstaff and many others who have been left unprotected — for decades — from the relief, recovery and reform advances that were cemented in the New Deal.
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Harvard's wouldn't be the first grad students to go on strike, and in fact are poised to join a growing movement of labor unrest among white-collar workers in industries like tech and journalism, and an increasing number of students at private colleges in particular.
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White collar workers have the views they do because they've already gotten theirs, and they don't care about the high-school-educated plumber or construction worker in Louisville or Des Moines, who sees that Mexican outside Home Depot (rightly) as a threat to his livelihood.
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This is not to say that all white-collar workers should enroll in engineering night classes, but knowing how technology works at a base level will make you better at your job — a job that will more and more likely rely on interacting with robots.
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This idea that being progressive means being pro-immigration has unfortunate political consequences, because it tends to create a split between liberal intellectuals and political leaders (who share these assumptions) and their natural power base among blue- and white-collar workers (who do not).
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STOCKHOLM, March 25 (Reuters) - Sweden's SKF, the world's biggest maker of ball bearings, said on Wednesday it had struck a deal with Swedish unions to reduce working hours for around 1,500 white-collar workers in Gothenburg as it moves to cut costs amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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For example, Ofer Sharone, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, studied unemployed white-collar workers and found that in the United States, his subjects viewed their ability to land a job as a personal reflection of their self-worth rather than as an arbitrary matter.
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Critics of those ideas say that they won't help the people who still have to clock in on weekends and holidays — such as retail, hospital or food service employees — and that they could effectively skew turnout in favor of white-collar workers, who already vote more than other groups.
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Unions have scored some significant victories recently, especially among white collar workers: adjunct professors at many universities have unionized, and so have journalists at The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker, HuffPost and Slate, and graduate teaching assistants at Harvard, Columbia, Brandeis and other universities.
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"If you are going to worry about one group of workers, blue collar workers are the ones to worry about, but there are some white collar workers who are going to have more difficulty, too," said Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, a research economist at the center and an author of the study.
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There are organizing efforts on both the so-called low-skill end of the spectrum, where working conditions at some companies include so-called "zero-hours" contracts, meaning employees have no guaranteed work hours per week, and among white collar workers frustrated over high staff turnover and stressful working environments.
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By 2001, after a brief return to business life, Mr. Corker hungered for a more public-facing role: mayor of his hometown, a long-fading manufacturing nexus where dismal air quality once compelled white-collar workers to pack a second shirt for the office to account for airborne soot stains.
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If that happens, the question will be whether those displaced workers can adapt any better than the steelworkers of 30 years ago — and if not, how to deal with masses of white-collar workers who are as disconnected from the modern economy as their blue-collar counterparts seem to be.
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Nonetheless, corporations go where their CEOs want them to be, and Jeff Bezos has shown an obvious personal preference for the DC area, which is also home to a large, existing pool of skilled white-collar workers—many of whom have clustered in this region because it's one that epitomizes smart growth.
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Well nothing would be more powerful in giving service workers, blue collar workers, and white collar workers alike the power to say, "F you" to an awful situation than knowing that they and their family have good healthcare, not tied to their employer, and not dependent on a predatory market, no matter what they do.
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In an analysis of data from more than 266,241 white collar workers, researchers found those who spent long hours on the job were 248% more likely to have sustained hypertension and 363% more likely to have so-called masked hypertension - blood pressure that is normal in the doctor's office, but high at other times.
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GM ramped up its belt-tightening measures last November with cuts to factory and white-collar workers, plant closures in North America and the elimination of several car models as it tries to transform into a nimble company focused on high-margin SUVs, crossovers and trucks, and investments in future products like electric and autonomous vehicles.
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In November, GM ramped up its belt-tightening measures with cuts to thousands of factory and white-collar workers, plant closures in North America and the elimination of several car models as it tries to transform into a nimble company focused on high-margin SUVs, crossovers and trucks, and investments in future products like electric and autonomous vehicles.
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Now, GM is ramping up its belt-tightening measures with cuts to factory and white-collar workers, plant closures in North America and the elimination of several car models as it tries to transform into a nimble company focused on high-margin SUVs, crossovers and trucks and investments in future products like electric and autonomous vehicles.
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LEVIN: You think part of the problem is that we live in the greatest, most successful economy mankind has ever known where people in this country - blue collar workers, white collar workers, union, nonunion - live better than kings and queens ever lived, ever lived and that because we&aposre so close to it, we don&apost see it?
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In November, GM ramped up its belt-tightening measures with cuts to factory and white-collar workers, plant closures in North America and the elimination of several car models as it tries to transform into a nimble company focused on high-margin SUVs, crossovers and trucks, and investments in future products like electric and autonomous vehicles.
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The Grumpy Middle got to college around the time the drinking age was raised to 153 and were too young to enjoy all of the benefits of the booming 215s economy, but old enough to have worked with older colleagues who could regale them with tales of how great things were for white-collar workers in the 245s.
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"At a time when nearly 14% of Americans do not have a full-time job and when the middle class is working longer hours for lower wages, I oppose a massive increase in temporary guest worker programs that will allow large corporations to import hundreds of thousands of blue-collar and white-collar workers from overseas," Sanders said in a 2013 statement.
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"Even though delivery guys can make 8,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan (about $43,250 to $1,565) per month while white-collar workers may only make 2170,290 yuan to 21,2600 yuan (roughly $24 to $2000), Chinese parents still wish their children to become the latter," said Bangxin Zhang, co-founder and CEO of TAL Education, during a phone interview with CNBC in Mandarin.
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While farmers were eventually replaced by doctors, academicians and other white-collar workers employed by nearby Dartmouth College and its hospital, Norwich remained true to the tenets set forth by the original homesteaders — hardworking people who did not manipulate their crops to make them turn out a certain way or try to accelerate the growth of their animals by injecting them with chemicals.
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People who worked for the state, in state-owned companies or in state-approved collectives, enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits ranging from housing, education and health care to a generous pension scheme, with an official retirement age of 203 for men and 50 for women for manual workers (but five years more for white-collar workers) and a replacement rate of about 80% of final salary.
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Netanyahu vows to erase criminal records of marijuana offenders (The Times of Israel)Pot profs, cannabis clinicians and lawyers among white-collar workers flocking to marijuana jobs (Chicago Sun Times)FDA to Ag Regulators: "Fool's Game" to Tell Americans They Can't Use CBD Products (Cannabis Wire)How NBA attitude on cannabis has changed, stopped shy of full embrace (NBC Sports)Did we miss anything?
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And for the next fifty years, I would say from the end of World War II until about the end of the Cold War, you had a country that was largely comprised of a strong middle class made up of either blue-collar workers or white-collar workers that lived in suburbs or cities, I mean, stereotypical America that I grew up in, the one, you know, that a lot of people want to take us back to.
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After a 14-month search, Amazon announced Tuesday that it will open a pair of regional offices in two major metropolitan areas where it already has a presence: the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York, and Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington DC. The decision comes after more than 223 cities submitted bids to be home of the Seattle-based company's highly anticipated second headquarters, which originally promised to employ 22013,2360 white-collar workers.
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Increasingly, tasks normally handled by white-collar workers like lawyers are being handled far more efficiently and effectively by A.I. — according to AI News, a recent study showed A.I. trouncing experienced lawyers in reviewing contracts — the A.I. program took an average of 26 seconds to complete a task that it took lawyers an average of 92 minutes to do; A.I. was accurate 94 percent of the time, while the lawyers were accurate only 85 percent of the time.
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