Global Workplace Hazards Claim 840,000 Lives Annually-ILO

Global Workplace Hazards Claim 840,000 Lives Annually-ILO

Occupational hazards now claim 840,000 lives every year. A new report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) links these deaths directly to poor workplace design and management. Long hours, job insecurity, and persistent harassment create a toxic environment that destroys health. These factors do more than damage mental stability. They trigger fatal physical ailments, including…

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GenAI Threatens Jobs, ILO-World Bank Alert

  A joint working paper by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Bank has cautioned that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will fundamentally alter labour markets across the world, with the most vulnerable economies standing to lose the most if deliberate policy action is not taken. The study, prepared as a background paper for…

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Women’s jobs face twice the automation risk as men’s: ILO

  Generative artificial intelligence is poised to reshape global labour markets, but new data from the International Labour Organisation confirms that women will bear a disproportionate share of the disruption, with female-dominated occupations facing nearly twice the exposure risk of male-dominated roles. The findings, published in the research brief titled “GenAI, Occupational Segregation and Gender…

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