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Bullshit jobs
\"'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence, even though as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.' After a million views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. ... Graeber, in his singularly searing and illuminating style, identifies the five types of bullshit jobs and argues that when 1 percent of the population controls most of a society's wealth, they control what jobs are 'useful' and 'important.' ... Graeber illustrates how nurses, bus drivers, musicians, and landscape gardeners provide true value, and what it says about us as a society when we look down upon them. Using arguments from some of the most revered political thinkers, philosophers, and scientists of our time, Graeber articulates the societal and political consequences of these bullshit jobs. Depression, anxiety, and a warped sense of our values are all dire concerns. He provides a blueprint to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture, providing the meaning and satisfaction we all crave.\"--Jacket.
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Complex network
With the improvement in the accuracy of solutions and the increase in the complexity of social problems, social division becomes more important, and teamwork has become an important way to solve complex problems. The efficiency of a team is affected by many factors. How to evaluate the operation of a team is a very meaningful topic. A team consists of members. The characteristics and abilities of members determine their roles in a team, and naturally affect the efficiency of the team. The cooperation between team members is also an important factor in achieving high efficiency.
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Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as an integrative framework
This paper reviews empirical evidence on psychological detachment from work during nonwork time. Psychological detachment as a core recovery experience refers to refraining from job-related activities and thoughts during nonwork time; it implies to mentally disengage from one’s job while being away from work. Using the stressor-detachment model as an organizing framework, we describe findings from between-person and within-person studies, relying on cross-sectional, longitudinal, and daily-diary designs. Overall, research shows that job stressors, particularly workload, predict low levels of psychological detachment. A lack of detachment in turn predicts high strain levels and poor individual well-being (e.g., burnout and lower life satisfaction). Psychological detachment seems to be both a mediator and a moderator in the relationship between job stressors on the one hand and strain and poor well-being on the other hand. We propose possible extensions of the stressor-detachment model by suggesting moderator variables grounded in the transactional stress model. We further discuss avenues for future research and offer practical implications.
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The skill complementarity of broadband internet
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? Is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We combine several Norwegian data sets to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points and provides plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor market outcomes and productivity of skilled (unskilled) workers. We explore several possible explanations for the skill complementarity of broadband internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. Taken together, our findings have important implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage productivity and wage growth.
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The new framework of employability skills for digital business
The fourth industrial revolution changes the order of business model from conventional to digital business. The general purpose of this study is to formulate a new framework for the employability skills needed by students for jobs in the digital business era. This research was conducted by analysing the contents of scholarly articles and policy documents relevant to the employability skills issue. Digital business world of work required a combination of digital and employability skills. A new framework of employability skills was proposed, included digital generic skills and personal attributes. Digital communication skills, digital teamwork skills, digital problem solving skills, creativity and innovation skills, self-management skills, and digital learning skills are part of digital generic skills. Personal attributes included honesty and integrity, work carefully and accurately, self-confidence and ability to work independently, have a pleasant personality, broad-minded and adaptability, and strong work ethics.
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Application of Big Data Technology in E-commerce
Big data is a new type of conceptual content in recent years. Through the application of big data, it can effectively analyze massive amounts of data and associate various data together, which can have a positive significance for various social productions. This article summarizes the application advantages of big data technology in e-commerce based on previous work experience. The author also discusses the application of big data technology in e-commerce field from investigating target market, optimizing internal management, carrying out precision marketing and optimizing credit evaluation these five aspects of brand effect.
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Resume extraction with conditional random field method
Information extraction resume is a system used to carry out the automatic information extraction process on resumes of prospective employees to obtain key information including information on names, skills, educational experience, work experience, awards which are the main components in a curriculum vitae of prospective employees. Conditional Random Field (CRF) is one method that can be used to extract information. The step taken in the information extraction process is an annotation documents, tokenization, labeling on each token in the document, feature extraction, and the formation of models that will be used at the classification stage. In this study a system was built that could be used to extract CVs from users in pdf format. This study uses a CV from LinkedIn. Information extraction is done using 15 features and 11 classes. The evaluation of information extraction system for the employee's resume has a precision value of 85,052%, a recall value of 85,052%, and an f-measure of 78,527%.
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Immigration, offshoring, and American jobs
Following Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) we present a model in which tasks of varying complexity are matched to workers of varying skill in order to develop and test predictions regarding the effects of immigration and offshoring on US native-born workers. We find that immigrant and native-born workers do not compete much due to the fact that they tend to perform tasks at opposite ends of the task complexity spectrum, with offshore workers performing the tasks in the middle. An effect of offshoring and a positive effect of immigration on native-born employment suggest that immigration and offshoring improve industry efficiency. (JEL J24, J41, J61, L24)
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