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Experts say this is likely to be one of the deadliest years on record on Mount Everest, with variable weather caused by climate change being blamed as one of the main reasons for the deaths of up to 17 people.A total of 12 people have…

Wealthy countries should pay for the loss and damage they cause to nature in poorer countries in the same way as for climate impacts, researchers have argued.At the Cop27 climate talks in November, world leaders agreed to a dedicated…

David Duffy, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Florida, just wanted a better way to track disease in sea turtles. Then he started finding human DNA everywhere he looked.Over the last decade, wildlife researchers have refined…

Yes, it’s easy to feel despondent. The planet is overheating and nature is declining at unprecedented rates.But environmental chaos is not inevitable. And doom and gloom never did any good. Increasingly, thought leaders are urging…

Humanity is set to blow past 1.5°C (2.7°F) of planetary warming by the early 2030s, according to a new report released today. The report, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warns of a future in which adapting to…

The world is facing an imminent water crisis, with demand expected to outstrip the supply of fresh water by 40% by the end of this decade, experts have said on the eve of a crucial UN water summit.Governments must urgently stop…

Classic British apples may die out and be swapped for varieties from New Zealand and Japan, as climate breakdown means traditional fruits are no longer viable.Apples such as pippin or the the ancient nonpareil, grown in Britain since the…

Experts have urged the UK to leave the controversial energy charter treaty (ECT), a secret court system that enables fossil fuel companies to sue governments for huge sums over policies that could affect future profits.The European…

The Progress Agents LLC CEO Dean Lindsay argues helping quiet quitting comes down to 'internalized reasons.' Less than a year after TikTok made "quiet quitting" famous, a new trend is gaining momentum on LinkedIn and Twitter. Known as "quiet hiring," the term has divided business leaders and HR pros, with some arguing that it will help workers negotiate for higher pay and benefits.  "Quiet hiring" is when a business retrains its workers and gives them new skills to fill in gaps in a business, often caused by labor shortages. Another critical part of quiet hiring includes hiring short-term talent, like contractors, to fill a pressing need, Harvard Business professor Joseph Fuller told Fox News Digital.But Twitter users were largely negative on the new trend, arguing that it struck too close to "quiet quitting," a trend that dominated headlines in 2022.  AS GEN Z OPTS OUT OF BLUE-COLLAR WORK IN AMERICA, EXPERT SHARES BENEFITS OF LEARNING A TRADE One HR expert telling Fox News Digital that quiet hiring was an opportunity for workers to negotiate for higher pay and benefits.  (iStock / iStock)The New School senior fellow Nina Turner wrote that quiet hiring was a way to describe employers taking advantage of workers. "Apparently, quiet hiring is when a company asks existing employees to do more than one job without a raise in pay. If your company starts quiet hiring, it’s time to quiet organize."Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson said that it was another phrase created to describe a normal phenomenon in the work world. "In 2022, we had to invent the phrase ‘quiet quitting’ to describe workers adequately doing their job, so in 2023 we have to invent a phrase ‘quiet hiring’ to describe managers adequately doing their job."But experts were more divided on the trend, with one HR expert telling Fox News Digital that quiet hiring was an opportunity for workers to negotiate for higher pay and benefits. That's because if a business asks employees to take on new responsibilities, they will be "compensated" for it, Gartner "Future of Work" expert Emily Rose McRae told Fox News Digital."It might be more pay, it might be a one-time bonus, it might be an automatic bump up during performance review time," she said. "It might be more PTO, it could be a more flexible schedule." Quiet hiring without compensating workers was one of the biggest misunderstandings around quiet hiring, McRae said."Quiet hiring is adding more skills and abilities without adding more headcount. But that doesn’t mean you don’t compensate them."  In other words, many companies are facing a talent shortage, and one way to alleviate that is to either hire short contract workers or retrain workers within an organization to do new jobs.  -->BLUNT HIRING AD AT BUTCHER SHOP PROMPTS EMPLOYERS TO SHARE WILD EMPLOYEE EXCUSES: ‘MY CAT JUST HAD PUPPIES'The bottom line, McRae said, is that quiet hiring offers current employees leverage in negotiations with employers. She also-->…

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