As many as two in five (40 per cent) employees with unpaid caring duties are quitting their job, Carers UK’s State of Caring 2023 survey has found. Another 22 per cent of the 10,751 unpaid carers surveyed are reducing their working hours because of their high levels of unpaid care.

Given that 80 per cent of women aged 45 to 55 are employed, it is encouraging that awareness of the need to support employees experiencing menopause is growing. As this awareness grows, so too do employment tribunal statistics concerning menopause-related issues: claims citing menopause have increased over the last three years. Employers need to be alive to the equalities and business risks of failing to support employees experiencing menopause symptoms, particularly those whose symptoms are severe and prolonged.

About 283 million people worldwide suffer from alcohol use disorder, a debilitating health challenge for which limited therapeutic options are available. The cost to society is estimated at greater than $2 trillion annually.

On November 1, 2023, Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available to enterprise customers. Copilot works within the Microsoft 365 apps and content in Microsoft Graph, such as emails, chats, and documents that users are permitted to access. It uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to help users create or refine text and images more quickly. The AI-powered assistant was first announced on March 16, 2023, and demonstrated at Enterprise Connect 2023 on March 28, 2023.

The human eye can perceive about 1 million colors, but languages have far fewer words to describe those colors. So-called basic color terms, single color words used frequently by speakers of a given language, are often employed to gauge how languages differ in their handling of color.