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Retaining employees as they age is possible with more flexibility

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Many businesses say they're suffering from labor shortages, but what are their management practices and what measures could be put in place to retain experienced workers?
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‘They are going after everything rural’: inheritance tax U-turn does little to dampen farmers’ anger at Labour

At the Oxford farming conference there were signs the government has much to do to win back farmers’ trustFew symbols were more potent than the wooden coffin bearing the inscription “RIP British ag...
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Self-configuring optical devices automatically learn how to sort out light

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Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different optical patterns at once is extremely complicated, and remains a major ch...
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The Scientists Making Antacids for the Sea to Help Counter Global Warming

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into the water.
Topics: carbon capture and sequestration environment carbon dioxide fish and other marine life conservation of resources oceans and seas geoengineering global warming science
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