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Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Why companies are leaning into skills-first, AI-enabled employment models
Good morning. As AI continues to revolutionize business, companies are fundamentally rethinking their workforce strategies for the decade ahead—and exploring new options. This topic came up during a panel session at the Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore conference last week. Jess O'Reilly, Workday's general manager for the ASEAN business, reflected on how a major Southeast Asian bank is considering a skills-based approach to employment. 'I was in Thailand a couple of weeks ago with a huge bank, and they're really looking at their 10-year strategy and saying, 'We don't even know if our people are going to have a traditional full-time job anymore,'' O'Reilly said. Instead of planning around fixed job roles, the bank is considering pivoting to what it calls a 'skills economy.' Here, every project or initiative is treated like a gig assignment—team members are chosen for their specific skill sets relevant to the project at hand. What's particularly notable is the bank's approach to continuous learning and reskilling. O'Reilly explained that there's always room for someone new to build their skills within these project teams. For example, the bank might set aside 1% of a project team for employees looking to reskill—people who say, 'I don't have these skills yet, but I have experience in adjacent areas and I want to learn.' By doing so, the company ensures that fresh talent is constantly cycling into critical roles. O'Reilly posed the question: How do we use AI not just for automation, but as the backbone for identifying and matching skills with project needs? She argued that AI can help organizations inventory existing skills, identify opportunities, and make it easier to create space for upskilling and onboarding new talent through gig-style projects. Perhaps a gig-based workplace would also inject variety into the day-to-day. And many companies are considering moving away from job-centric structures and toward a skills-focused approach, according to Deloitte's report, 'Becoming an AI-enabled, skills-based organization.' The firm finds that companies integrating both AI and skills-based approaches will be better positioned to predict talent gaps, improve talent placement, retain high performers, and reduce mis-hires. AI and skills-based approaches could also mean that entry-level positions aren't eliminated by automation—instead, new hires would be selected for specific skill sets that can be expanded and developed. Skill requirements for jobs are constantly changing, noted Peiying Chua, head economist for APAC at LinkedIn, during the panel session. 'For entry-level workers, this presents the opportunity to upskill and work on different sets of abilities—to build human-centric skills, agility, and creativity,' she said. Sheryl This story was originally featured on Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Irish Times
7 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Times
Tony O'Reilly, the ‘boy wonder' who took the Lions tour of South Africa by storm
No matter how well the Irish international rugby players perform on the current British and Irish Lions tour of Australia, none of them is likely to match the impact that Dubliner Tony O'Reilly made 70 years ago this summer during the 1955 Lions tour of South Africa . Not yet three months past his 19th birthday, he scored two tries on his Lions debut and he played in all four test matches against South Africa in August and September when South Africa were regarded as the best team in the world. He was top scorer on that tour with 15 tries, including one in the first and fourth test matches. 'His speed shook the Springboks ,' said the Sunday Press report on the first test, which the Lions won 23-22, in Johannesburg. The accompanying photograph was captioned: 'The fast-running Tony O'Reilly, whose great individual efforts were rewarded by scoring a try.' Another try in the fourth and final test in Port Elizabeth, where South Africa won by 22 points to 8 to share the series 2-2, enabled the same paper to headline its match report: O'Reilly Stars As Tourists Go Down. The Irish Times report was more phlegmatic. 'He dislocated his shoulder when scoring, but the bone was later replaced successfully,' it said. (Idiosyncratic house styles dictated that the The Irish Times called the travelling team 'British Isles' while the Sunday Press called them 'British and Irish XV' or 'the Tourists'.) READ MORE During the subsequent Lions tour of Australia, New Zealand and Canada in 1959, O'Reilly scored a try in each of the test wins over Australia and in two of the four tests against New Zealand. His combined total of 37 tries on the 1955 and 1959 tours remains a Lions record. The 17 tries he scored in New Zealand in 1959 is also a Lions record. O'Reilly won his first Irish international cap, aged 18, in January 1955, less than two months after he was hailed as 'an up-and-coming boy wonder' in the Sunday Press, then the country's best-bestselling paper. Already 'attracting attention as a great attacking player' on the Old Belvedere senior team, the 6ft 3.5in, 14-stone O'Reilly had also achieved success at cricket, tennis and soccer, it noted. 'He has four School Cup medals for tennis and was on the Belvedere team which won the Schools Cricket Cup as a wicketkeeper and opening bat,' the report said, adding: 'In cricket he has provincial honours and was a reserve for the Schools of Ireland team. At soccer Tony played for Home Farm and got a trial as a centre-forward for the Irish Schools against England, but was unable to play because of a Rugby Cup match.' Rugby renown was followed by a successful business career, initially as general manager of An Bord Báinne, the Irish Dairy Board, for whom he oversaw the launch of the internationally successful Kerrygold butter brand. He became chairman and chief executive of the giant US food group Heinz and owner of the Waterford Wedgwood crystal glass and ceramics brands. [ Tony O'Reilly: A dazzling star who left a mark on many facets of Irish society Opens in new window ] He also enjoyed more than 35 years as a 'media magnate' (a now obsolescent term), peaking in ownership of 128 newspapers and a number of radio stations and TV cable interests in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Britain. He gained control of the Irish Independent group in 1973 and he became majority owner of Ireland's bestselling Sunday World five years later. After another five years he had full control over the Independent Group and from about 1990 onwards he was in effect bankrolling the Sunday Tribune. He was also joint owner of the Anglo-Irish tabloid Daily Star and owner of the Belfast Telegraph. His investments in the Sunday Tribune and in the London Independent and Independent on Sunday probably never made a penny profit, however. Neither did his multimillion pound 1994 investment and loan to the owners of the newspaper that had first heralded his sporting prowess, the Sunday Press, and its sister daily and evening titles. The State's Competition Authority found that the investment and loan amounted to 'very serious breaches' of the Competition Act and 'an abuse of a dominant position' by O'Reilly's Independent group. The Press group collapsed in May 1995 and O'Reilly was ousted from Independent News & Media (INM) in 2009. His shareholdings in INM and Waterford Wedgwood nosedived in value, foreshadowing his serious illness and bankruptcy. His long-serving INM chief executive Vincent Crowley was asked later what value had been attributed to the Press shareholding in its annual reports. He replied: 'Zero.'
The Hill
13 hours ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Bill O'Reilly: ‘People are very uneasy' in New York
Political commentator Bill O'Reilly said Monday night that New York City residents are 'very uneasy' in light of the skyscraper shooting in Midtown, where four people were killed, including a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer. 'But in New York City, the largest and most powerful city in the country, people are very uneasy. And the reason…is because the system has collapsed, the justice system,' O'Reilly said during his appearance on NewsNation's 'On Balance.' The former Fox News host said that he often speaks to the city's residents who tell him they are '100 percent' scared of going to work and taking the subway and concerned for the safety of their kids. O'Reilly criticized New York Mayor Eric Adams, who is running for reelection as an independent, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), accusing them of 'not trying to solve the problem.' 'And the legislature is insanely left-wing. So, once you have a culture of violence, which you do have in New York City, you have a culture of violence,' he told host Leiland Vittert. 'Anything can happen at any time.' The gunman, identified as Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, went into a high-rise building in Manhattan and allegedly opened fire, killing four people before taking his own life. Another person was injured in the shooting. One of the four people killed was Didarul Islam, an NYPD officer who was with the department for over three years. Islam was an immigrant from Bangladesh who was married and had two kids, His wife is pregnant with their third kid, according to Adams. 'He was doing what he does best and all members of the police department carry out. He was saving lives,' the mayor said. 'He was protecting New Yorkers.' He also ordered flags in the city's five boroughs to be flown at half-staff in honor of the victims. Adams's fellow mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani (D), former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who is also running as an independent — and Curtis Sliwa (R) responded to the shooting, calling the incident 'heartbreaking.' House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), whose district includes parts of Brooklyn, also weighed in, condemning the shooting as 'tragic and horrifying.'
Irish Daily Mirror
18 hours ago
- Climate
- Irish Daily Mirror
'Worst case scenario' highlighted by weather expert ahead of potential storm
Ireland is facing the prospect of a rare summer storm as an Irish weather expert has identified the risk of heavy winds battering the country next week. Both the Global Forecast System (GFS) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) have highlighted the potential of a low-pressure storm heading towards Ireland early next week. Irish weather expert Alan O'Reilly, who mans the popular @CarlowWeather account on X, is monitoring the weather models and revealed that next Tuesday looks like the most likely day for stormy conditions to arrive but there is good news after that. "When it comes on Tuesday - look at this - very, very strong winds right across the country. Now, it's a week out. It's very uncertain. It's going to chop and change but the GFS and the ECMWF are both showing the risk of a low pressure storm moving towards us on Monday or Tuesday, hopefully Tuesday," he said on social media. "I wouldn't get too worried at the moment but it's certainly something to keep an eye on. "The good news is that once that clears, high pressure looks more likely to move in for next week so it might be a short-term loss in terms of some wind and rain but then high pressure moving in so fingers crossed that we get that high pressure and the low pressure stays to the north." Conditions will remain mixed in the lead-up to the weekend, with national forecaster Met Eireann anticipating a good deal of dry weather and temperatures staying in the high teens. This looks set to turn from Saturday, however, as a band of rain is expected to move over the country on August 2 and it will turn heavy at times before Sunday sees scattered showers as temperatures remain in the mid to high teens. Providing some optimism, Mr O'Reilly added that the ECMWF model identifying next week's storm risk is the "worst case scenario." He added: "Good news is the weather model ensembles show that the ECMWF model with storm next Tuesday is currently worst case scenario so hopefully won't end up that bad." Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
Irish Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Climate
- Irish Daily Mirror
Weather expert issues storm warning as 'very, very strong winds' to hit Ireland
A weather expert has warned that Ireland could be hit by stormy conditions in the early parts of next week. Alan O'Reilly, the hobbyist meteorologist who runs the popular Carlow Weather social media pages, issued a weather update to his followers on Monday evening (July 28) and revealed current models show that "very, very strong winds" are currently forecast to batter the country next Tuesday (August 5). O'Reilly said that both the GFS and ECMWF weather charts show a risk of a low pressure storm making landfall here following the August Bank Holiday weekend, although the weather expert conceded that forecast 'could chop and change' over the coming week. In a video message to his followers, O'Reilly said: "Monday evening, we have some rain moving in from the west going across the country. Rainfall amounts generally low, but there will be some rain. "Tuesday and Wednesday, there will be a lot of cloud [with] some scattered showers. If you are going to the Galway Races bring that brolly or raincoat, but not a lot of rain. "Thursday we will see more in the way of sunny spells, but still some showers as well on Thursday." O'Reilly said that current indications suggest the August Bank Holiday weekend will start off dry with some good sunny spells expected on Friday. However, a spell of rain is forecast to arrive on Saturday, with stormy conditions then predicted to hit on Tuesday. "The good news is Friday's looking pretty good with good sunny spells and not too many showers, so a good start to the long weekend," he said. "Saturday looks okay until a risk of rain moving in from the northwest. Now the worst of that (is) probably over Saturday night into Sunday, but the timing and intensity of that is something to keep an eye on. "Sunday then, very uncertain yet but it looks like it could be a mix of showers as well. "Monday then really, really uncertain. The GFS weather model bring a low with wind and rain moving in from Monday. "The ECMWF weather model, the European one, keeps that away but when it comes [to] Tuesday, very, very strong winds right across the country. "Now, it's a week out, it's very uncertain and so it's going to chop and change, but the GFS and the ECMWF are both showing a risk of a low pressure storm moving us towards Monday, Tuesday, hopefully Tuesday. "But I wouldn't get too worried at the moment, but it's certainly something to keep an eye on." Despite the potential for a storm to arrive next week, O'Reilly said that there is some positive news on the weather front, with current indications suggesting that the storm conditions will be followed by a spell of high pressure which will usher in clear skies, light winds, and generally settled conditions. "The good news is once that clears high pressure looks likely to move in for next week," he told his followers. "So it might be a short term loss in terms of some wind and rain but then high pressure moving in. "So fingers crossed that we get the high pressure and the low pressure stays to the north." Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here. The Irish Mirror's Crime Writers Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy are writing a new weekly newsletter called Crime Ireland. Click here to sign up and get it delivered to your inbox every week
