Carl Quilliam

@carlquilliam.bsky.social

Employment, skills & the future of work. Public Affairs lead for the CIPD. Interests in housing, regen and local government.

New figures I’ve obtained from the Bank of England show a persistently high proportion of new mortgages are set to run past pension age - over 2 in 5 - even as mortgage rates start to fall. Big implications for the adequacy of pensions savings if this continues: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mortgages: More people face repaying loans in retirement

Two in five new mortgages have terms that will see homeowners still making payments in retirement.

bbc.co.uk

Licensing editorial content for training AI is a violation of the GDPR, according to the Italian watchdog. "The digital archives of newspapers contain the stories of millions of people, with information, details and even extremely sensitive personal data"

Italian watchdog warns publisher GEDI against sharing data with OpenAI

Italy's data protection watchdog has warned Italian publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with ChatGPT owner OpenAI, it said on Friday, citing concern over potential breaches of EU rules.

reuters.com

I think I’m probably one of the few people that quite enjoy civil service ‘timelines’ like this. This feels like the right thing to do from an economic/policy perspective but risky from a political perspective given the narratives around the Budget.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2y ago

FT can reveal that the big spending review has been pushed back from the spring to June (but Treasury still pretending that June is in the spring lol) www.ft.com/content/edc2...

This is why the pace of AI development at the frontier isn't the point. It's the pace of the rest of the economy and its myriad processes that counts. And why, as the Economist argues, in terms of comparisons to the computer revolution, we're probably in the 1970s not the 1990s 5/5

Our latest report into the UK's digital habits reveals: ⏲️ Gen Z women spend over an hour longer online than Gen Z men. 📱Men are more avid users of online dating and Gen AI. ⚠️ Women and teenage girls are most concerned about online harm. Read more: www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...

Digital differences between men and women revealed

Stark differences in the online lives of men and women in the UK are today revealed in Ofcom’s annual report into the nation’s digital habits.

ofcom.org.uk

In the last People Pod we covered - the role of the profession in an external crisis - whether discussion of politics at work should be encouraged/forbidden or something in the middle - accountability for supply chains - 'ghost jobs' And someone has a plaque... www.cipd.org/en/knowledge...

CIPD | HR People Pod

Listen to episodes of the HR People Pod, CIPD’s new fortnightly podcast series offering expert insights on topical stories impacting the world of work.

cipd.org

Reposting to read later. Some interesting people have been sharing this report, which includes a look at algorithms and AI impacting low wage workers in the US. Interested in anyone’s initial take on it.

TechTonic Justice@techtonicjustice.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Inescapable AI report (www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...) comprehensively explains + quantifies AI use in the lives of the 92 million low-income people in the U.S. Essentially all face AI use in at least one key life aspect: housing, work, schooling, public benefits, or family stability.

Welcome to Bluesky! Lovely to see so many excellent people from the #HR Twitter community on here. If you're looking for HR and what we might call "people people" to follow, I've started compiling a starter pack of folks to follow: MJCarty's HR and people people starter pack go.bsky.app/N5GsTGD

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Always great to see analyses like these coming out of the government’s data labs. This kind of data sets up orgs to really understand their effectiveness and lends itself well to analysis of their economic impact - critical for funders, commissioners and the charity itself. Do read Ben’s thread!

Ben Gadsby@brgadsby.bsky.social · 2y ago

Based on the matched control group here, participants on both @streetleagueuk.bsky.social programmes are around 15% more likely to be employed 12 months after starting the programme