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Many U.S. workers are taking on side jobs to cope with stagnant salaries, inflation, and job insecurity. This trend, known as "polyworking," sees individuals creating “portfolio careers” where they work a variety of jobs, each building different valuable skills. “We have seen stagnant salaries, we've seen inflation, we've seen the cost of living overall increasing, even beyond our inflation measures,” said Alexandrea Ravenelle, sociologist and gig economy researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “So people are looking for ways to supplement and to build themselves a little bit of a safety net.”
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UK
Campaigners are urging the government to modernise paternity leave to support fathers in family life. The Dad Shift, co-founded by Alex Lloyd Hunter, seeks affordable and equal leave for all parents. Currently, less than 5% of UK fathers share parental leave, which allows up to 50 weeks off. Fathers only receive two paid weeks under the statutory system, less than half the minimum wage. Lloyd Hunter said: "We want to support our partners properly . . . and bring dads into the conversation." The government is reviewing the parental leave system, said Kate Dearden, minister for employment rights, who acknowledged the need for improvement.
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Europe
The Irish government has launched a public consultation to gather feedback on the right to request remote working. The rules, which came into force in March last year, require employers and employees to refer to a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) code of practice when considering applications for remote working arrangements. Employees can forward a dispute to the WRC if they believe an employer has failed to fulfil their obligations under the code. Since its introduction, the WRC has received 60 complaints, with only one upheld. Minister of State for Small Business Retail and Circular Economy, Alan Dillon, emphasised the importance of this consultation, saying: "This is an important opportunity to hear directly from members of the public, employers and other stakeholders." Submissions are open until 9 December.
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Middle East
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has told the BBC that every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst. Pichai said the growth of artificial intelligence investment had been an "extraordinary moment", but there was some "irrationality" in the current AI boom. Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Pichai said the Alphabet-owned tech giant could weather that potential storm, but also warned: "I think no company is going to be immune, including us." Pichai said Google's unique model of owning its own "full stack" of technologies - from semiconductors to YouTube data, to models and frontier science - meant it was in a better position than others to ride out any AI market turbulence.
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