Elon Musk asks every job candidate about the most difficult problem they worked on and their solution. Job seekers can use this question to prepare for future interviews by choosing which accomplishments to bring up in order to effectively express your problem-solving skills, suggests Judith Humphrey.

Regardless of industry, all leaders need a growth mindset and qualities such as confidence and commitment, writes Bernhard Schroeder of Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. "There is no greater motivation than seeing top leadership down in the trenches working alongside everyone else, showing that hard work is being done at every level," he writes.

Perfectionists can hinder productivity by overthinking, overdelivering or sticking to habits that no longer serve them, former psychologist Alice Boyes writes. Solutions include delegation, specific plans for when and how to overdeliver, and reviewing habits to determine their usefulness.

An upskilling and reskilling boom is on the way with 51% of learning and development professionals planning to launch programs this year, according to LinkedIn's 2020 Workplace Learning Report. Companies will focus learning and development budgets on training for augmented reality as well as virtual reality, bringing technical skill training to new workers.

Google has asked most of the 8,000 employees at its European headquarters in Dublin to work from home today after a staffer reported symptoms consistent with the flu. Employees from Twitter and Coinbase also have been urged to telecommute, while Facebook has barred employees from bringing outsiders to the office and Amazon reportedly has stopped holding on-site job interviews.

A report by the Brookings Institution revealed that US jobs in tech are increasingly concentrating in a handful of already prominent tech cities including San Francisco, Seattle and San Jose, while many parts of the country are missing out on the economic growth tied to the industry. Only 21 cities between 2010 and 2018 reported increase in their share of tech jobs, though the increase were only less than one-tenth of a percentage point.

Researchers at Google, Georgia Tech and the University of California at Berkeley have built a four-legged robot that uses a deep reinforcement learning system to teach itself how to walk on various terrains with minimal human intervention. The researchers plan to adapt the system for use in the real world.