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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Sean Higgins
Headed into the holiday season, the retail industry is wrangling with a surge in shoplifting and possible solutions to prevent theft. The upsurge may be an inadvertent consequence of another trend: automation. With stores now having fewer people minding them, thieves have felt emboldened. Trade groups are pushing for new federal legislation to help fix the problem. A better solution would be for businesses to realize that workers are a greater anti-theft asset than they think.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
alexandergroup.com | Sean Higgins
Life Sciences FY25 GTM PlanningThe life sciences tools and services industry continues to face a tough year. The flash of optimism at the beginning of the year was suppressed by light pharma and biotech spend, a recession in China and a lack of timely interest rate cuts. Most life sciences companies will see low negative or positive single digit growth year-over-year. Marketing and sales leaders in the industry are looking for ways to regain momentum and re-establish sustainable growth.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
computing.co.uk | Sean Higgins
‘Human coders grasp the nuances of user needs, ensuring the software resonates beyond flawless functionality’The rise of AI has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, sparking anxieties about its potential impact on the job market, particularly for programmers. Initial fears of AI rendering human developers obsolete have subsided somewhat, but longer-term questions about the future of coding persist.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
morganton.com | Sean Higgins
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
mcdowellnews.com | Sean Higgins
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
havasunews.com | Sean Higgins
Technology is making the 40-hour workweek an outmoded tradition. Historically, the workweek concept was based on the cycle of working from sunup to sundown, stopping either because the necessary work got done or it got too dark to see. The invention of gaslights in the late 19th century, followed by electric lights, made sunset an outmoded stopping point. During the Industrial Revolution, a typical workweek in a factory could last 70 hours.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
bdtonline.com | Sean Higgins
Technology is making the 40-hour workweek an outmoded tradition. Historically, the workweek concept was based on the cycle of working from sunup to sundown, stopping either because the necessary work got done or it got too dark to see. The invention of gaslights in the late 19th century, followed by electric lights, made sunset an outmoded stopping point. During the Industrial Revolution, a typical workweek in a factory could last 70 hours.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Sean Higgins
Technology is making the 40-hour workweek an outmoded tradition. Historically, the workweek concept was based on the cycle of working from sunup to sundown, stopping either because the necessary work got done or it got too dark to see. The invention of gaslights in the late 19th century, followed by electric lights, made sunset an outmoded stopping point. During the Industrial Revolution, a typical workweek in a factory could last 70 hours.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Sean Higgins
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
alexandergroup.com | Sean Higgins |Raj Sharan
With shifts in customer demand, the life sciences and analytical instruments industry is struggling to control costs and implement specialization tactics to generate a competitive advantage. One area that has a direct impact―creating a formal and well-documented program for talent management. In this on-demand webinar, Raj Sharan and Sean Higgins, directors for Alexander Group, share the latest findings from the research report, Five Principles for Effective Talent Management in Life Sciences.
