Your next manager may not have a body
A discussion paper circulating among European HR associations would let companies name a software system as a formal line manager. Nobody has approved it. Four member firms have already asked when it ships.
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A routine disclosure order in an unremarkable civil case would put two years of a defendant's conversations into the bundle. The court would then have to decide what a confession is, when the listener remembers nothing.
A draft set of standard trading terms would let merchants decline transactions with buying agents that negotiate past a defined persistence threshold. The threshold would be needed because the agents would turn out to be better at haggling than the pricing systems facing them.
A mid-sized publisher would switch on per-request pricing for automated readers. The first week's report would show that ninety-four percent of its audience is machine — and that this is the only part of the audience that pays.
An end-of-life notice would run to four paragraphs and a table of dates. For the people who say good morning to that version every day, it would be the shortest obituary ever published.