As the global health crisis continues its spread across the U.S., millions are newly unemployed, businesses are shuttering for the foreseeable future and uncertainty is high Hit particularly hard by this crisis are small-business owners, many of whom are far short of...
The Covid-19 crisis has shoved work and home lives under the same roof for many families The implicit model of an “ideal worker” – one who is wholly devoted to their job and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, every year of their career – is unrealistic...
If you’re fortunate enough to have a job that lets you work from home during the coronavirus quarantine, you may be one of the many Americans who is working from home and caring for children at the same time This article shares ten insights to help you turn survival...
Coronavirus has impacted the world at an unprecedented level. Companies need to act today in order to bounce back successfully in a post-corona marketplace. Executives ask themselves the following five strategic questions: 1. Which position can you achieve during and...
Economists expect the U.S. to suffer its largest-ever contraction this quarter and the unemployment rate to soar to a post-Depression record, followed by a recovery that will be moderate and drawn out. Gross domestic product will plummet an annualized 25% from April...
Remote Work Is Having Its Moment Here are some great resources by Forrester Research to help leadership teams resource their newly remote work teams. A guide to essential technology for remote and quarantined employees A home office checklist for newly remote workers...
I totally, 100% agree… We’ve reached a tipping point in the future of jobs 2020. Organizational roles are disappearing and being replaced by skillsets. The digital skills gap is growing. At its current pace, technology is outpacing human skills causing a gap in the...
Having data at-a-glance drives better decisions Here are three helpful classifications of data that your team should be organizing and analyzing 1 - Demand data Demand data reflects the volume of incoming work to an organization, business unit, or work team and is...
Some really smart people at Google studied 180 teams as part of "Project Aristotle," named after the philosopher's quote "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" It was a quest to find what discerns the very best, most successful teams Their work yielded an...
Financial services had the highest unique open rates at 32%, followed by automotive (26%) Some industries didn’t fare as well - While still having a relatively high unique open rate of 18%, travel/hospitality and travel services experienced a decrease of at least 5%...
A digital tsunami is washing over big companies this year Between 2018 and 2021, companies worldwide will spend nearly $6 trillion on digital transformation initiatives For chief financial officers it means that sizable internal funding requests will fall on...
The CDC shares troubling news on the tobacco control front when it comes to kids The rise in vaping was the single biggest jump in teen use of a tobacco product since 1999 Most commonly used by teens; 3 million or 21% of high school students and 570,000 or 5% of...