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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer adopts Legora AI firmwide

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ecm
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer selects Legora as its firmwide AI platform, boosting drafting tools and launching a new client collaboration portal.
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Skills-based cyber talent practices boost retention

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hcm
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Skills-focused cyber talent strategies can save firms over USD $125,000 per hire, boosting retention, speed to recruit and women's leadership.
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AI leaders pull ahead as laggards face analytics latency

3 days ago
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data analytics
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AI projects in full production race ahead as a global survey exposes a widening trust and speed gap with organisations still experimenting.
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AI plans threaten junior hiring as staff left unready

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data analytics
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cx
Employers plan to cut junior hiring as AI expands, leaving most staff feeling unprepared for rapid shifts in work and skills demand.
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More UK adults eye moving abroad as language skills pay

5 days ago
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teched
More UK adults are ready to move abroad, as new research links language skills to higher pay, confidence and global career mobility.
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Women engineers gain AI career boost, yet trust lags

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devops
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genai
Women engineers say AI is accelerating careers but remain wary of bias and blurred accountability for machine-generated code at work.
Laura

How the universal adoption of AI can help women in insurance balance the scales

5 days ago
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digital transformation
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ai
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agentic ai
As AI reshapes insurance, automation could free women from routine tasks and open faster routes into higher-skilled, better-paid roles.
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Designing for reality: What my non-traditional path taught me about diversity in tech

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ai
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healthtech
A technologist's non-traditional path shows why true diversity is now critical to build trustworthy, inclusive AI and products that work in reality.
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Women in tech call for systemic change beyond quotas

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fintech
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supply chain
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security operations
Women in tech mark International Women's Day by urging systemic fixes to finance, culture and leadership, saying quotas alone fall short.
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How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s

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Women in their 40s are reclaiming tech careers, proving life experience, grit and curiosity can trump age bias and fast-track reinvention.
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Women in tech call for real power beyond IWD praise

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Tech leaders use International Women's Day to demand structural change, real equity and female power in shaping AI and senior decisions.
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Women in tech & finance call for systems to catch up

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digital transformation
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erp
Women in tech and finance say workplaces must be redesigned, with data-led accountability and digital finance access to match women's ambitions.
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International Women's Day: Embedding ethics, inclusion and skills at the heart of AI transformation

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risk & compliance
On International Women's Day, leaders urge AI built with ethics, inclusion and skills at its core to avoid deepening gender inequality.
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Knowledge equity in the age of AI: Moving from gatekeeper to orchestrator

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uc
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digital transformation
As AI shifts from automating tasks to shaping decisions, leaders must share expertise generously to orchestrate, not gatekeep, knowledge.
Sonia eland hcltech

Breaking the algorithmic glass ceiling: How AI can shape a more inclusive future for women leaders

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digital transformation
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hcm
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risk & compliance
AI is reshaping who rises at work; without deliberate governance it could entrench bias or unlock a fairer future for women leaders.
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This International Women's Day, fix the skills blind spot in your organization

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opinion
This International Women's Day, move beyond pledges by fixing the skills blind spot that keeps high-performing women from promotion.
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How inclusive tech workplaces can empower more women

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digital transformation
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ai
Orange Business is tackling tech's gender gap with school outreach, inclusive hiring, upskilling and support for women-led startups.
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The energy transition will stall without women in tech

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data analytics
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power / energy
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ai
The net-zero transition risks stalling unless more women shape the tech driving AI, cybersecurity and digital energy systems.
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Glass Half Full: AI is the beginning for job searchers

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ai ethics & governance
AI can turn scattered skills into new careers, offering job seekers second chances while demanding fair access, training and inclusion.
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Degreed unveils AI tools to close human readiness gap

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data analytics
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digital transformation
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rpa
Degreed launches AI-driven learning tools and programmes to tackle the “human readiness gap” holding back companies' AI investments.