Today's intense workplace culture can be traced back to a forgotten Soviet coal miner – podcast
Jul 01, 2021 09:54 am UTC| Life
This episode of The Conversations In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov, and how the work ethic he embodied in the 1930s has been invoked by managers in the west ever...
One third of migrant and refugee women experience domestic violence, major survey reveals
Jul 01, 2021 04:54 am UTC| Life
A third of migrant and refugee women in a new survey said they experienced some form of domestic and/or family violence. And temporary visa holders consistently reported proportionately higher levels of domestic and...
S. Korean millionaires increase by 140,000 to 1.05 million in 2020
Jun 24, 2021 21:51 pm UTC| Economy Life Business
The number of South Koreans with assets worth over $1 million, or nearly 1.1 billion won, increased by 140,000 on-year to 1.05 million in 2020, accounting for 2 percent of the worldwide total. Last year, there were 5.2...
Shinhan Card's data reveals gamers spend more on phone plans, food deliveries
Jun 24, 2021 15:20 pm UTC| Economy Life Business
Shinhan Card Co.s transaction data for the first quarter revealed that PC or mobile game users paid 20,000 won more to telecom companies than non-PC or mobile gamers and 48 percent more gamers used food delivery than those...
Working from home: How classism covertly dominated the conversation
Jun 20, 2021 12:22 pm UTC| Life
Since the arrival of the pandemic, media accounts about the new world of work have painted a curiously uniform picture of the jobs that people across the UK do. Chief among them was the idea that everyone was all suddenly...
Jun 20, 2021 12:21 pm UTC| Investing Life
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea About a quarter of census tracts with a post office dont have a community bank or credit union branch, suggesting postal banking could...
Post-pandemic return to work is a perfect opportunity to move to a four-day week
Jun 20, 2021 12:19 pm UTC| Life
The gradual easing of lockdowns and social restrictions opens the possibility of a welcome return to pre-pandemic habits. This might mean trips to the cinema, eating in restaurants, or attending a large wedding. For...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects