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Surge In Visa Applications Is Reshaping Global Work And Travel Trends

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These visas simplify the process of living and working in different countries, providing a legal framework for a lifestyle that was once considered unconventional. These numbers reflect a 162% increase in digital nomads since 2019, with an estimated 16.9 million digital nomads globally.

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Half of work related illness is down to stress, depression or anxiety

Workplace Insight

Nearly two million workers in Great Britain reported suffering from work-related ill health in 2022/23, according the latest annual statistical report from the UK’s Health and Safety Executive. There were an estimated 875,000 cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2022/23. billion increase compared with 2019/20.

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Firms growing concerned about increase in litigation

Workplace Insight

Since 2019, more than two in five (43 percent) UK business say they have been subjected to legal threats, with many facing multiple occurrences; more than a quarter (28 percent) said they had seen cases of litigation increase by more than 40 percent over the past five years.

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Freelancers Under Fire: Legislation Threatens Gig Economy Workers

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The original PRO Act passed in the House of Representatives in 2020, and then again in 2022. The state law was passed in September of 2019 and was later enacted in January of 2020. The original PRO Act, modeled after the California legislation, passed in the House of Representatives in 2020, and then again in 2022.

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Local Women’s Shelters Wouldn’t Respond, So These Two Friends Decided to Build Their Own

Success

She built a career in the legal profession, first as a stenographer and then as a paralegal. Soon after moving from Miami to Phoenix in 2019, Shante encountered a homeless woman named Janice. The goal is to break ground in 2022. All the while, despite her circumstances, Shante stayed focused on her education and work.

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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

Success

A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. Photos nadyabadya/shutterstock.com.

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AI may boost productivity, but we are already becoming reliant on it, and that’s a problem

Workplace Insight

Generative AI, a powerful new technology, even shows promise in assisting with legal tasks like contract drafting. The original transformer model (2017) cost around $900 to train, while RoBERTa Large (2019) was $160,000. percent in 2022. The US remains the global leader in AI.

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