In fact, explained Wörtz, an accomplished journalist, the story goes that the academic grandees of the era resisted a ...

Many lingering work practices are “hangovers" from the Industrial Revolution and while they were effective in the beginning, they’re turning into a headache with the current direction of work culture.

“In every society, there are stabilizing Forces that protect the status quo. Some of these forces protect entrenched vested interests that might incur losses if innovations were introduced, others are ...

The manufacturing sector is undergoing rapid procedural changes and strategic shifts, driven by the increasing adoption of automation and artificial intelligence (AI). This transformation is being ...

Job growth has been soft for the past few months and most analysts believe it is due to a slowing economy. But that explanation might be wrong. The job slowdown could be the result of extraordinary, ...

We would be wise to take a moment to reflect on the ways in which higher education has adapted to radical change in society, technology and culture in the past 150 years or so. Those changes have been ...

In Workforce 4.0, employees expect some degree of remote work with greater flexibility and a focus on results, not time on the clock. With technology advancing so quickly, it can be hard to keep track ...

Industrial revolutions occur during periods of immense technological change that shape our world. The first Industrial Revolution took place from the 1750s to 1840. A surge in iron production led to ...

Long before the onset of the first industrial revolution around 1760, it is recorded that early humans used crude weapons to hunt, employed basic methods to fish in shallow waters, and toiled with ...