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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economics & business
corporate strategy
work-life balance
human resources
employee benefits
retirement
science
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...
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 agriculture, 30th October 2024” that greeted Labour’s environment minister at the annual Oxford farming conference.It marked the date of Rachel Reeves’s first budget, when she announced plans to levy inheritance tax on farms. For the chancellor’s cabinet colleague Emma Reynolds, it underlined the anger among Britain’s farmers. Continue reading...
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tax and spending
tax
environment
uk news
rural affairs
labour
inheritance tax
farming
science
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...
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 challenge in modern photonics.
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optics & photonics
science
self-configuring
self-configuring optical devices automatically learn how to sort out light
self-configuring optical devices automatically learn
self-configuring optical devices
The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into the water.
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carbon capture and sequestration
environment
carbon dioxide
fish and other marine life
conservation of resources
oceans and seas
geoengineering
global warming
science