15Five While they’re not typically a favorite activity for employees, most HR leaders would agree that performance reviews are crucial to performance management. Yet, year after year, many HR teams struggle to design and implement performance review processes that are fair, valuable, and efficient. There can be any number of reasons why a company’s performance […]Continue reading
MIT News – Artificial intelligence While Santa Claus may have a magical sleigh and nine plucky reindeer to help him deliver presents, for companies like FedEx, the optimization problem of efficiently routing holiday packages is so complicated that they often employ specialized software to find a solution. This software, called a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) […]Continue reading
15Five While most businesses have reopened their offices since the end of the pandemic, millions of employees are still working from home, and many plan to continue. Research conducted in June 2023 found that 13% of full-time employees were fully remote, and 30% had a hybrid arrangement. That means nearly half of all full-time workers […]Continue reading
MIT News – Artificial intelligence A robot manipulating objects while, say, working in a kitchen, will benefit from understanding which items are composed of the same materials. With this knowledge, the robot would know to exert a similar amount of force whether it picks up a small pat of butter from a shadowy corner of […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Vaccines and medication will remain available for free ‘while supplies last’ but most Americans will have to pay for testingThursday marked the end of Covid-19’s public health emergency status in the US, concluding more than three years of free access to testing, vaccines, virtual accommodations and treatment for the majority of […]Continue reading
