Developing junior lawyers requires building technology skills among a wide range of business knowledge, along with such crucial factors as committing to diversity and providing individualized training, writes Richard Liu, a trainee solicitor in London. "Helping junior lawyers succeed means helping all junior lawyers succeed," and "[r]etaining diverse individuals is as important as recruiting them," Liu writes.

JD.com plans to do away with basic salaries for its in-house couriers and instead pay based on the number of packages they deliver. Richard Liu, the company's founder and chief executive, says the courier salary created a $420 million loss for the company in 2018, and if it continues to struggle financially, JD.com has "two years of runway left with its capital raised."

JD.com, one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world, has invested $4.5 billion into creating an artificial intelligence centre with a goal of 100% automation. Richard Liu, JD.com's founder, CEO and chairman, says he wants to remove people from his company.

Chinese companies are experiencing greater difficulties in getting their products to the US market, JD.com CEO Richard Liu said at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. ""Chinese companies are finding it harder to go into the United States and I can feel the protectionism is quite serious there -- it's not a good thing," said Liu, whose e-commerce company is in the midst of a global expansion.