Entries by Patty Riddlebarger

Points of Light Conference Sparks Opportunity Employment Initiative

When recent high school graduates Nichelle Johnson and Tranetta Luque began their jobs as customer care center clerks atEntergy Corporation, they were excited. They knew they landed well-paying jobs with full benefits, a retirement savings plan and excellent long-term career opportunities at the only Fortune 500 company headquartered in their hometown of New Orleans.

Entergy launches five-year, $5 million workforce development initiative to help build highly trained workforce required by complex technologies

The replacement of humans by robots in the workforce and society has been a recurring theme in literature since Karel Capek first coined the term robot in 1920. However, despite the prognostications of Capek and generations of sci-fi writers who followed, rumors of human obsolescence are greatly exaggerated, as underscored by the results of Area Development magazine’s annual corporate survey.