Hungary's investment ambitions face a shortage of skilled people. Ambassador, Dr Nicholas Jeffery examines migration, demographics and AI as economic forces.

Two people describe the same AI rollout in the same week, and both are telling the truth. The owner is measuring the decision. The team is measuring the work. The distance between those two measurements is where most of the money goes, and it is nearly invisible from the top.

Most owners have an honest read on one or two dimensions of their readiness for AI, usually the systems and the budget, and a partial read on the rest. The plan then gets built on the parts they know well, and the parts they do not know get absorbed as risk nobody priced.

AI can now do or accelerate many of the tasks that once filled the early years of a career. That is good for productivity. But those repetitive tasks were also where people learned to recognize patterns, catch mistakes and develop the judgment we later expect from senior employees.

Sherri Claydon joins Vancouver City News, bringing insight into recruitment, workforce strategy, workplace culture and the future of work.

AI-powered robots are being tested to find and retrieve garbage from the seafloor, offering a promising new approach to one of our oceans' toughest problems.

The pilot worked. Then the quarter closed and the numbers looked the same. The return leaks out in the space between the person who found the shortcut and the way the business actually runs, and closing that gap is a leadership decision rather than a technical one.

The "follow your passion" narrative contains a real insight: meaningful work matters. People who find their work meaningful outperform those who don't, stay longer, and bring more of their capability to the table.