“People are hopping jobs in search of larger ownership and learning opportunities. That is also a reason why the younger generation is opting to work at startups. The belief in the world of open source and internet is that learning happens while doing more things.This is in contrast to joining a large organisation where there would be lesser ownership, and therefore, lesser learning,” Belong’s chief technology officer (CTO) Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath said. 

Companies are mostly using Vera(Robert) to recruit employees for ‘high-turnover service and blue collar positions’ like clerks, waiters and construction workers, Bloomberg said. Vera can shave off the cost of recruiting by a third, as she’s able to interview hundreds of applicants at the same time.

The study, published in the journal Science, explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallized water molecules in diamond samples from locations in Africa and China.