Human labor is far less energy intense than a robotic milling machine, even though there are clear cost advantages when replacing
human labor with robotics.
It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all
our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.
The challenge for managers will be to identify where automation could transform their organizations, and then figure out where to unlock value, given the cost of replacing
human labor with machines and the complexity of adapting business processes to a changed workplace.
Not exact matches
Of the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for
labor exploitation
with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of
human trafficking from Poland.
«It's having to replace what should be able to be handled
with technology by
human labor.»
In a recent interview
with Quartz editor - in - chief Kevin Delaney, the billionaire Microsoft founder argues that the right approach to our job - scarce future may simply be to tax the robots (OK, really the owners of the robots) that replace
human labor.
It is now possible to staff service desks
with both digital and
human labor.
The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster,
with less
human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.
Sheppard,
with 85 employees in Glendale and seven other cities like Boston, Chicago and Houston, will become the foundation for what Ketchum describes as a new worldwide unit, the Workplace Communication Practice, which will specialize in tasks like internal communications,
human resources and
labor relations.
The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies
with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of
human rights,
labor, environment, and anticorruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues.
Michael Posner, assistant secretary for democracy,
human rights and
labor, urged countries
with problems to continue to address them.
They would not work; for Calvin, the common
human obligation is to
labor in the garden of the Lord, in whatever manner is commensurate
with one's God «given gifts and abilities on the one hand, and the needs of the situation on the other.
«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working
with law enforcement to stem the flow of
human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and
labor trafficking.»
It would be unnecessary to
labor this point except that sin is often conceived too narrowly either as something to be settled
with God only, or on the other hand as merely calling for reform in
human relations.
When
human beings break their covenant
with society by exploiting the
labor of the worker and refusing to do anything about the social costs of production — i.e., poisoned air and waters — the covenant of creation is violated.
Society is not expected to be stratified
with respect to
labor and leisure, for work is accepted as an intrinsic and universal component of the
human situation.
Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking
human rights violations by China, including the slave
labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women
with more than one child.
And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the
labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless
with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all
human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring
human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.
A congregation's appreciation of its own
labor of embodiment, its recognition of its own attempt to fuse its many actions, can also, as I have said, deepen its sense of commonality
with efforts of
human societies throughout the world to gain their own shalom.
Again,
with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who,
with a deal of
labor, shapes it into a pretense of
human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»
With the human impulse what it is, it is unlikely that it will be possible to dispense entirely with personal profit as the reward of la
With the
human impulse what it is, it is unlikely that it will be possible to dispense entirely
with personal profit as the reward of la
with personal profit as the reward of
labor.
For eons he brooded and
labored over his creation until he produced
human beings,
with whom he could have fellowship.
Over
Labor Day weekend I sat down
with two books by Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia:
Human Rights in History and Christian
Human Rights.
It is my theological sense of the doctrine of man which says that any system that expects to work
with human nature must have some kind of incentives built into it, a profit motive for example, or adequate rewards for
labor.
We can continue, profitably, to displace traditional agriculture, based on solar energy and
human and animal
labor,
with petroleum - based agriculture requiring far less
labor.
The order asks the Treasury,
Labor, and Health and
Human Services departments to «consider issuing amended regulations, consistent
with applicable law, to address conscience - based objections» to Obamacare.
His writing on this subject has many affinities in substance, though not in tone,
with the social encyclicals of John Paul II, who consistently insists on the importance of the noneconomic aspects of work, the dignity of unpaid
labor, and the priority of
human over economic values.
They speak, it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who
labor nevertheless
with the same eternal
human difficulty.
I can not support such a meager effort, in particular from a company
with such a long track record of disregard for
labor and
human rights, environmental protection, honesty in labeling and marketing, and other unethical business practices.
For crops that are not harvested, due to cost or other constraints, but are wholesome for
human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities
with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or
labor barriers.
These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the
human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to
labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate
with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier
labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during
labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.
On birth This article appears in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Sage Publications, 2005 Until recently in
human history, birth has been exclusively the work of the work of women as they
labor and bear down
with their uterine muscles to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.
Labor is believed to be one of the most painful
human experiences, but in reality, it varies
with every woman and may differ
with every pregnancy.
With the employer's costs incurred for unemployment insurance, an investigation by the
Human Rights Commission, the Department of
Labor and / or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the potential for a private cause of action, it's just not cost effective to deny breastfeeding accommodations.
Laboring women rank as privates in this scheme of «military efficiency»
with a «
human face».
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human rights.
He is also a thought leader on
human resources in the computer industry,
with a focus on discrimination and diversity issues (including race - and age - based discrimination) and the use of foreign
labor in the U.S. computer industry.
In Europe laws that limit the use of agricultural chemicals and the exposure of
human workers to such chemicals have already made lettuce - weeding robots competitive
with human labor.
On Capitol Hill, a report accompanying the
Labor / Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill recommends that when a journal accepts a paper generated
with NIH support, a copy be sent to PubMed Central, the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) archive of full - text articles.
But FASEB legislative analyst Jennifer Zeitzer says the organization is «pleased
with what happened» given the pressure to fund other agencies within the jurisdiction of the House
labor, health and
human services, and education appropriations subcommittee.
«Obviously we're disappointed that the number is flat,» says David Moore of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, D.C.. It's not a surprise, however, because the House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education had less overall money to work
with than its Senate counterpart, he says.
Under the rubric of «artificial artificial intelligence,» it's a venue in which a «requester» (in the Mechanical Turk terminology)
with a task can break it up into fragments called
human intelligence tasks (HITs), offer a price per task, and then see if any of the cloud of «providers» — workers looking to pick up some small quantity of micropayment
labor, akin to the «content producers» waiting for new jobs from Demand Media — will take them up.
President Clinton's OMB had five RMOs but combined health programs
with personnel - related programs to have one RMO called Health and Personnel, leaving education, income - maintenance, and
labor programs in their own RMO called
Human Resources.
Agree
with your emphasis on whole foods, Timar, but believe me it's also liberating to know that one's meals are not contributing to the torment of other beings, not to mention climate change and other environmental degradation, and abuse of
human labor.
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There's much joy in seeing classic cartoon characters like Donald Duck, Betty Boop and Dumbo in frame
with the
human actors, and the effects required over a year of
labor - intensive post-production work by animators and Industrial Light & Magic.
Every given stage of development of the productive forces of society — that is, of the
human species, and of the division of
labor — is bound up historically
with certain social relations of production, particularly class relations.