AI creep continues
Unilever says it is saving hundreds of thousands of pounds a year replacing human recruiters with an artificial intelligence system. It has saved 100,000 hours of human recruitment time by deploying software to analyse video interviews. The system scans graduate candidates’ facial expressions, body language and word choice and checks them against traits that are […]
More HR-related research
Old Etonians, you’ve got to love them. When people aren’t rolling their eyes at their incompetence and sense of entitlement, it turns out they are all too keen to employ them and perpetuate the patriarchy of class. Apparently, social class can be determined within just seven words, and it could have major implications in job […]
Another memo from HR
Following our previous correspondence and subsequent company re-engineering and streamlining, it has come to our notice that some employees are still acting in ways detrimental to our company ethos and brand-values. Therefore, we will be tightening our strictures, as it is the right thing to do. Please answer the form below and take the appropriate […]
World menopause day
Channel 4 is launching its first menopause policy in an effort to normalise the “taboo” subject. The policy will support employees experiencing menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, anxiety and fatigue, giving women access to flexible working arrangements and paid leave if they feel unwell because of the side-effects of ageing. The strategy, which Channel […]
Duped into extinction
Let’s stop calling this the Sixth Great Extinction. Let’s start calling it what it is: the “first great extermination”. A recent essay by the environmental historian Justin McBrien argues that describing the current eradication of living systems (including human societies) as an extinction event makes this catastrophe sound like a passive accident. While we are […]
Memo from HR
Do you ever: Answer questions with the word ‘so’? Use the word ‘challenge’ in a work context? Listen to podcasts? Say 50 is the new 30? Take selfies? Care who is the new James Bond? Ask to be kept in the loop? Think being passive/aggressive is a good thing? Play loud music in your car […]
Don’t let them grind you down
Is this democracy’s death spiral? Are we, in this country and others, falling into a lethal cycle of fury and reaction, that blocks the reasoned conversation on which civic life depends? In every age there have been political hucksters using aggression, lies and outrage to drown out reasoned argument. But not since the 1930s have […]
