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Predicting the unpredictable

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Predicting the unpredictable
Predicting the unpredictable

By Dr Alan Bourne, CEO & Founder, Sova

Radical changes in the world of work are not a new phenomenon. In 1841, more than one fifth of British workers were employed in agriculture. Today, thanks to advances in farm machinery, pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, that figure has fallen to below one in a hundred.

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