While nearly a quarter of employers say they consider AI fluency an unrewarded baseline skill, the majority of workers disagree. More than half of the employees surveyed by compensation software company Payscale said they should earn more for developing AI skills, according to a recent report.
Industrial businesses should move beyond basic data collection and adopt financial-style decarbonisation analysis for evaluating environmental metrics. DuPont’s Carbon Fluency Framework evaluates greenhouse gas metrics using different factors such as product mass, revenue and unit margin. This methodology lets sustainability teams assess product footprints from multiple perspectives, rather than viewing emissions as standalone figures.
A recent exchange on LinkedIn involved a senior leader at McKinsey questioning whether the glass cliff even exists for female leaders at struggling companies. Julia Carreon didn’t anticipate that a LinkedIn post promoting her new book would spark an exchange that made a persuasive case for why she wrote the book in the first place.
The days of store brands being tradeoffs from national brands are gone. That change brings new opportunities for packaging partners on both ends of the spectrum. Higher-income households are embracing private labels, unit sales of store brands are growing as those of national brands decline and a majority of Gen Z consumers believe private label products are just as good as branded items.
Heidelberg and Pfenning group aim to integrate pharmaceutical printing, packaging, and logistics through connected digital systems. The partnership targets greater supply chain transparency, stronger process control, and complete documentation. Serialization, track-and-trace, and compliant logistics will support growing pharmaceutical regulatory demands.
