New figures I’ve obtained from the Bank of England show a persistently high proportion of new mortgages are set to run past pension age - over 2 in 5 - even as mortgage rates start to fall. Big implications for the adequacy of pensions savings if this continues: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New edition of Just enough Internet just landed in inboxes. This one on how non-technical people actually appear to be using generative AI at work.
buttondown.com/justenoughin...
Are you an ex political adviser with zero remaining Joie de Vivre? Let me know and I will add you to my starter pack
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New post just out:
"The definition of madness"
Why governments keep making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again.
And what they should be doing instead.
(£/free trial)
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Licensing editorial content for training AI is a violation of the GDPR, according to the Italian watchdog.
"The digital archives of newspapers contain the stories of millions of people, with information, details and even extremely sensitive personal data"
Fuzzy job numbers need fixing.
Good to see @financialtimes.com picking up on recent @resfoundation.bsky.social work on the scale of uncertainty surrounding UK labour market figures.
www.ft.com/content/4058...
Do former political advisers in local govt count?
First SoS resignation within 6 months of a new government isn’t that remarkable anymore but there’s some interesting politics in how quickly this has happened.
I think I’m probably one of the few people that quite enjoy civil service ‘timelines’ like this.
This feels like the right thing to do from an economic/policy perspective but risky from a political perspective given the narratives around the Budget.
This is why the pace of AI development at the frontier isn't the point. It's the pace of the rest of the economy and its myriad processes that counts. And why, as the Economist argues, in terms of comparisons to the computer revolution, we're probably in the 1970s not the 1990s 5/5
"Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?"
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
is a nice analysis from The Economist - in particular, because it bolsters my assumption that AI will struggle to have the impact of the computer revolution...1/
Our latest report into the UK's digital habits reveals:
⏲️ Gen Z women spend over an hour longer online than Gen Z men.
📱Men are more avid users of online dating and Gen AI.
⚠️ Women and teenage girls are most concerned about online harm.
Read more: www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...
Doesn’t look like they’ve got that kind of granularity in this poll. Maybe it needs some focus groups to thrash out the issues in more detail.
😅
One for @dds180.bsky.social
Important news 🇬🇧! We do sort of have a written constitution after all, or more accurately, a mapping of the writings that are constitutional. Well done the Commons Library team (library! Yes!)
📢New research! Our report for the Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives, supported by
@healthfoundation.bsky.social reveals that poor job quality threatens the health of the UK workforce with 1.7 million people reporting work-related ill health in the last year. Read: bit.ly/3CH4uYB 1/
Looking forward to seeing the full details of the white paper this week.
It’ll be interesting to see if/how links are drawn between this and other key government agendas on work, health and industrial strategy through a place based approach.
In the last People Pod we covered
- the role of the profession in an external crisis
- whether discussion of politics at work should be encouraged/forbidden or something in the middle
- accountability for supply chains
- 'ghost jobs'
And someone has a plaque...
www.cipd.org/en/knowledge...
Reposting to read later.
Some interesting people have been sharing this report, which includes a look at algorithms and AI impacting low wage workers in the US.
Interested in anyone’s initial take on it.
Welcome to Bluesky!
Lovely to see so many excellent people from the #HR Twitter community on here.
If you're looking for HR and what we might call "people people" to follow, I've started compiling a starter pack of folks to follow:
MJCarty's HR and people people starter pack
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Always great to see analyses like these coming out of the government’s data labs.
This kind of data sets up orgs to really understand their effectiveness and lends itself well to analysis of their economic impact - critical for funders, commissioners and the charity itself.
Do read Ben’s thread!
@sarahevehammond.bsky.social @carlquilliam.bsky.social @michael-a-ryan.bsky.social @ryangfrost.bsky.social you've been added to this starter pack. Please do share and tell us if we're missing anyone!
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