Posts by Marcellino Nehme
What’s next for remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries
Can I work from home or am I tethered to my workplace? Quarantines, lockdowns, and self-imposed isolation have pushed tens of millions around the world to work from home, accelerating a workplace experiment that had struggled to gain traction before COVID-19 hit. Now, well into the pandemic, the limitations and the benefits of remote work…
Read MoreWhy Do People in Relationships Cheat?
Cheating: it’s the ultimate relationship violation and a notorious relationship killer.As researchers have recently demonstrated, cheating is rarely a simple affair. There are many reasons why people cheat, and the patterns are more complex than common stereotypes suggest. A fascinating new study sheds some light on these motivations. Around two thirds of participants (62.8 percent)…
Read MoreWhat 800 executives envision for the postpandemic workforce
McKinsey commissioned a survey of business executives around the world in June 2020. The results suggest that the crisis may accelerate some workforce trends already underway, such as the adoption of automation and digitization, increased demand for contractors and gig workers, and more remote work. Those changes in turn will create greater demand for workers…
Read MoreToyota beats Volkswagen to become world’s No.1 car seller in 2020
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp overtook Germany’s Volkswagen in vehicle sales last year, regaining pole position as the world’s top selling automaker for the first time in five years as the pandemic demand slump hit its German rival harder. Toyota said on Thursday its group-wide global sales fell 11.3% to 9.528 million vehicles…
Read MoreHow the Brain Responds to Beauty
Pursued by poets and artists alike, beauty is ever elusive. We seek it in nature, art and philosophy but also in our phones and furniture. We value it beyond reason, look to surround ourselves with it and will even lose ourselves in pursuit of it. Our world is defined by it, and yet we struggle…
Read MoreIsrael’s vaccine programme gives hope to the world
OVER ONE-THIRD of Israel’s population has received a vaccination against covid-19 since December 19th. There is now evidence that the vaccination programme is having an impact. Analysis from Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and his colleagues, has found that covid-19 cases are falling appreciably among old people…
Read MoreThe Nirvana fallacy: when perfectionism leads to unrealistic solutions
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien” wrote Voltaire in 1772. The Nirvana fallacy consists in comparing existing solutions with ideal, perfect ones—which are often unrealistic. The Nirvana fallacy can lead to dangerous thinking and harmful decisions. Solutions that improve safety but do not completely eliminate a risk are often the victim of the Nirvana fallacy.…
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