If recent polls are accurate, workers around the world are going to launch an epic game of musical chairs once offices open again and mass vaccinations bring the pandemic under control. Compared to average numbers before the pandemic, far more employees are yearning for a new job and plan to make a move imminently.
The courtroom verdict that turned Derek Chauvin into a convicted murderer this week brought ripples of celebration across the United States, many tempered by reminders about the ongoing need for police reform and accountability.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer on trial for George Floyd’s murder, has been found guilty of all three charges against him.
A therapist once called me a garden-variety neurotic (a compliment), but that label hasn’t felt accurate lately.
Bernie Madoff, the orchestrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died today (April 14) at age 82 in North Carolina, at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, a prison for inmates with severe medical conditions. Madoff had been suffering from chronic kidney failure.
We may be headed for a post-pandemic roaring ’20s, but right now the vibe is more 1950s American suburbia.
Donald Trump and his allies relied on misinformation to bolster support for the former US president ahead of the last election. His campaign, meanwhile, turned to deceptive design to bump up donations from unsuspecting Americans, the New York Times reports.
The past year has brought seismic changes to workplace culture. “The factors that drive employee engagement have shifted,” says Julia Anas, chief people officer at Qualtrics, an employee experience analytics company.
A little over a year after the start of a global pandemic, the dramatic and lasting impact that the Covid-19 crisis has had on the workplace is coming into focus. Some of the consequences of the mass migration to remote work were entirely predictable. For example, companies and employees alike have had time to consider the pros and cons of the office, in terms of cost, physical layout (popular open floor plans mean viruses can easily float between staff) and its effect on internal communication. What wasn’t as obvious was how remote work itself would affect our lives and workplace culture.
If we were eating our feelings before the pandemic, we’re now drinking, baking, air-frying, and spatchcocking them, too. In one survey from the American Psychological Association, 40% of respondents reported some weight gain over the past year. A small study recently suggested that Americans gained about two pounds per month in that time.
The day is fast-approaching when US companies, if they haven’t already, will have to decide whether to insist that employees get vaccinated before they return to a physical workplace.
It’s happening: Working dads are starting to grasp that when you’re maxed out at home, it’s not easy to be a star around the office.
The office happy hour is a survivor. Last year, as the pandemic began, it migrated online swiftly, just days after lockdowns began.
In a study a few years ago about how people perceive facial movements, subjects were presented with photographs of pro tennis players who had just scored or lost a critical point, and were asked to guess whether the athletes were ecstatic or devastated, based on their facial expressions.
McKinsey & Co. has taken on a sinister reputation in recent years, and not only among the leftists who have long opposed the global consulting firm’s work supporting cutthroat capitalism for the world’s largest companies, or its contracts with autocratic governments.
After a year of enduring trauma and loss on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic, US nursing home operators face another crisis: They’re running out of money. A recent industry survey found that 65% of the country’s more than 15,000 nursing homes are operating at a loss, and 34% believe they will need to close within a year.
The Biden administration’s proposed $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package, which has proven increasingly popular among voters of all stripes, if not with Republican lawmakers, just received a major boost from business leaders with serious clout.
Spotify has joined a growing list of workplaces to announce that things won’t be going back to the way they used to be. The more than 6,500 people who work for the streaming music company across 73 countries will not have to return to an office five days per week once the pandemic has passed.
This morning, after donning my most professional sweatshirt, I sat down prepared to focus on work.
The US Space Force didn’t get off to the best start. “Adversaries and um, whether we get along with them or not, they’re up in space and they’re doing it and we’re doing it,” president Donald Trump said when announcing the agency two years ago. “And that’s going to be a very big part of where the defense of our nation. You could say offense but let’s just be nice about it and let’s say the defense, of our nation is going to be.”
Schitt’s Creek co-creator Dan Levy has once again helped make TV gold.
“If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal,” Jeff Bezos told Amazon employees this week in a memo announcing the end of his reign as CEO at the company where he has spent nearly three decades disrupting shopping habits. “People yawn,” he added. “That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive.”
As the first US president since the Civil Rights era to make racial justice a prime concern, Joe Biden has identified racial equity as a top priority of his White House agenda.
