The Shift Away from Coding as Job Security For years, the standard career advice for ambitious professionals was straightforward: learn to code. The prevailing logic held that possessing engineering and computer science skills made you recession-proof. However, that assurance is fading. In today's m...
Who Are the 'Disposable Workers'? MIT labor economist Paul Osterman has identified a growing segment of the workforce that he calls "disposable workers." This unsettling category describes employees who exist on the periphery of their organizations—present enough to collect a paycheck, but absent fr...