Sentences with phrase «jobs technology jobs»

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In a statement, Lee said that the «growing «sharing economy» is leveraging technology and innovation to generate new jobs and income for San Franciscans in every neighborhood and at every income level... San Francisco must be at the forefront of nurturing its growth, modernizing our laws, and confronting emerging policy issues and concerns.»

When asked whether technology also had a negative impact, especially with regard to destroying jobs, Schmidt echoed Sandberg's early statements that technology doesn't just create jobs for coders but in other sectors as well.

Well «designed» technology makes every job easier, from hundreds of employees who are managing operations, to the thousands of customers who are trying to purchase your goods.

«The fact that a person may be employed as a computer programmer and may use information technology skills and knowledge to help an enterprise achieve its goals in the course of his or her job is not sufficient to establish the position as a specialty occupation.»

It's no surprise then that the fastest - growing job in the U.S. between 2012 and 2016 was for a solar photovoltaic installers or someone who assembles solar panels on roofs, according to MarketWatch, which cites a study from personal finance technology company SmartAsset.

Last year, Lee said, the city experienced a 30 % annual growth in technology jobs, which now number some 32,000 positions at 1,600 tech or start - up companies.

Blockchain technology would also potentially mean a huge number of job losses, especially in middle - and back - office functions.

According to a report released by Human Rights Watch yesterday, prominent Chinese technology companies such as Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent are outwardly excluding women from job opportunities.

As part of the deal, which still needs approval from Congress, Saudi Arabia «expressed its intent» to spend $ 28 billion on defense technologies and programs by Lockheed Martin, which estimated the deal would support 18,000 jobs in the U.S. over 30 years — a figure that falls dramatically below Trump's estimate.

After all, the entire country, and in many cases much of the world, has benefited from the contributions of these men: the jobs they've created, the technologies they've built, the instant access to European footwear.

Apartment growth is already robust, with 4,000 units in the planning stages, and job growth in professional services and technology is helping to fill more and more housing.

«Employers don't just want their employees to do the same job faster, they want them to do a different job due to changing technology, materials and structures,» says Nancy Jackson, a recently retired associate professor in Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

So in 2015, after being accepted to Y - Combinator, they launched Jopwell, an online recruiting platform that connects African American, Hispanic, and Native American candidates with jobs at major technology and finance companies.

Tesla's much - anticipated debut of an electric semi-truck on Thursday night has spurred debate about the future of trucking, especially how advances in autonomous driving technology could make many truck driving jobs obsolete.

Yet earlier this year, Mark Karpelès landed a big new job: chief technology officer at London Trust Media, a Denver - based corporation that runs the largest virtual private network (VPN) service in the world.

Jobs lost at polluting companies tend to be offset by new jobs in green technology.

«It's our job to be harnessing this technology as a force for good,» he says.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

They would include jobs in research and development, manufacturing and sales and would be focused on the company's next - generation cell technology.

Trump's administration was unified in the view that U.S. jobs were endangered by what it called China's forced technology transfers and state - directed intellectual property theft, the official said.

Fifty - two percent of the experts do not think technology will displace more jobs than it creates by 2025.

This means attention must be given to the importance on the service delivery thereby increasing the number of jobs for vendors, smarter use of technology for automation and analytics so as to make the operations and in - turn overhead expenses leaner thereby building a sustainable solution for both the customers and service providers.

Chief among them is Dr. Michel Laberge who, upon turning 40 in 2001, quit his job as a senior physicist and principal engineer at Creo Inc., a printing technology company.

Whitman is something of a surprise choice for the job because her name has been bandied about in recent years for high - profile positions in both the technology sector and politics.

The profit part of the plan might seem obvious, but I believe technology has taken us from job seekers to job creators.

«We love jobs, we love technology, and we love convenience — but what you're looking for will impact every part of our cities,» the leaders wrote to Amazon.

Appointed to the position in 2009 by President Barack Obama, his job was to overhaul how the government spends money on technology, a task he did until departing last summer.

«There's pretty strong evidence that for every drop you lose to technology, there's 2.4 (jobs) being created.

Michael Bloomberg says he doesn't see artificial intelligence «taking over the world» but he does worry about the technology eliminating jobs.

It's not your job to understand the technologies behind the Web.

«Health care goes beyond doctors and nursing professions — there is high demand for people to fill positions available in health care technology, at hospitals and elsewhere within the industry that tap into a variety of the categories we rank and that offer a low unemployment rate, a high median salary and robust job growth.»

As with many technology changes, employees may fear for their jobs.

Still, he added, «technology is giving the consumer a much better product — much cheaper, much faster, more alternatives — but at the expense of fewer workers, and we have to find ways for companies to create jobs as well as profits.»

To handle the job of reviewing an increased lineup of products and covering the breaking news of additional consumer technology industries, I recently doubled my staff to 20 full - time employees.

An «upswing» in employment creation follows a period during which jobs were lost to the advance of technology, Tidjane Thiam said

«I think we are in a very fortunate period, we had a period of job disruption for technology but we are finally in the period where actually the net job changes are positive,» Thiam said.

Martinez has formed a nonprofit called Technology Transfer Solutions, which works with various Colorado organizations to help high school - equivalency students get entry - level IT jobs.

There is no doubt that there is a skills gap in technology, and while confidence is growing that most jobs won't be displaced by robots, it's inevitable that some will.

Time - tested industry leaders know their jobs won't suddenly become obsolete if they don't implement your technology.

Nor can Putin ignore his economy's need for foreign investment and technology to upgrade industry and create jobs.

Finally, at 8 pm that evening, SoundCloud chief technology officer Artem Fishman called him up and told him his job has been cancelled.

Facebook is building a team to design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chipmakers such as Intel (intc) and Qualcomm, according to job listings and people familiar with the matter.

He was the same person, in the same job, but with different sources of power and authority, a kind of Grover Cleveland of technology.

OK — but can you really land a data science job without at least some sort of STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) degree?

With a weak job market and abundant free technology available to start - ups, it's no surprise that college campuses across the country have lately become prodigious business incubators.

Technology and global competition has raised the premium on technology and managerial workers and reduced the premium on most conventiTechnology and global competition has raised the premium on technology and managerial workers and reduced the premium on most conventitechnology and managerial workers and reduced the premium on most conventional jobs.

By promoting craftsmanship training, advancing STEM jobs and identifying new ways to incorporate new technologies for growth and innovation, the construction business can strategically combat the labor shortage and set the industry up for success.

If technology doesn't exist, doesn't work properly, or doesn't help your employees do their job, productivity will suffer.

«The media has done a great job of scaring people, hackers have done a good job at hacking and there has been a good amount of activism to help people understand the risks,» says Jean Yang, co-founder of Cybersecurity Factory, an incubator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Technology, globalization, and one long recession — in which nearly one in six Americans reported losing a job, according to Princeton economist Henry Farber — have all disrupted old - fashioned employment.