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High Expectations: Managing For Value In The Automotive Industry

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To understand the backdrop, consider the three-year period leading up to January 2020. During this time, the industry’s EP growth was challenged as margins were squeezed by declining global volumes and high fixed costs.

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Talent Strategy: ‘It’s About Being Intentional’

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In May 2022 alone, 66 tech firms laid off a collective 16,800 people, according to tech job tracker Layoffs.fyi; that was the highest number of employees to get the axe in a single month since May 2020. . And the already significant fixed costs of adding staff are only getting steeper. This year’s 4.8

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The Crisis in Child Care: A Tri-Sector Solution?

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Once you add fixed costs to those wages, it gets very expensive to run a quality program with skilled providers. Women accounted for 100 percent of the net job losses at the end of 2020 in the U.S. Child care is expensive to provide because it’s a highly regulated labor-driven service.

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

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The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. The market value of the worldwide IT industry is $5 trillion.

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Recession-Proof Your L&D Strategies and Budget For Future Success

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Instead it will drive up the cost of scarce and critical talent in a market that is already suffering from a lack of supply. This is evident with technical and digital roles seeing a double-digit percentage increase in salary growth from 2020 to 2021, compared to a 2,8% increase in other industries within the UK.

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