Working from home
When pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, employees logged in to work from their beds, couches, and dining room tables. Now, those who still work remotely have upgraded to standing desks and ergonomic chairs, but some have ascended to an even higher level of WFH: interior design built specifically…#wfh #flexible #dutch #zillow #yoy #perbusinessinsider (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Buzz-Free Drinking? The Rise Of Non-Alcoholic Beer
As the brewing industry is still recovering from the aftershock of the Covid-19 pandemic, alcohol-free beer has become one of the bright spots in a troubled beer sector. And while buzz-free beer still accounts for just over 5 percent of global…#buzzfreedrinking #statistafelixrichter #statistahaving #heineken #statista #tylerdurden (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'This could be 100 times worse than Covid': Bird flu warning from scientists who say HALF of infections with H5N1 in people are fatal - as White House says it's 'monitoring' the situation
Speaking at a briefing, virus researchers in the US said the H5N1 strain of bird flu may now be getting 'dangerously close' to triggering a pandemic. Pharma industry consultant warned of risks. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lars Windhorst threatened with jail over showjumping business dispute
Financier had tried to back out of 2020 deal to buy half of Global Champions citing financial difficulties caused by the pandemic#globalchampions (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ideological connections: an integrated humanistic-social psychological approach to examining the relationship between controversial opposing opinions - Chance NL.
The social, economic, political, and civil unrest surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 United States election, and the increased activity of the racial justice movement has seemingly divided not just the nation but the world. Thoughts and behaviors ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 3, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Here We Are 4 Years After the Pandemic, and 75 Percent of Leaders Are Still Terrible at Remote Work
Yet another report finds remote workers are wasting tons of time because of their anxious and old-fashioned bosses. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
American children are struggling academically
Four years since school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic upended their education, elementary and middle school students have gained back some ground. Unfortunately, they still have a long way to go before being caught up, according to a national analysis of how students are recovering led by…#harvarduniversity #stanforduniversity #harvard #stanford #illinois #mississippi #thomasjkane #margueriteroza #edunomicslab #georgetownuniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘Gone are the days of manually searching and scrolling through a list of applicants’: Indeed doubles down on AI to save hundreds of hours on recruiting
Professional job-seekers are having a tougher time in today’s market—it’s taking longer to get hired or even get a callback since the heady days of the post-pandemic Great Resignation, while large employers are open about their desire to cut costs, including among formerly insulated executives and…#greatresignation #rajatishmukherjee #smartsourcing #google #amazon #meta #smartsourcingai #illinois #fortunecom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How prepared the U.S. is for a bird flu pandemic
Federal officials are preparing for the possibility of additional human cases of bird flu, testing components to create an H5N1 vaccine after a Texas dairy worker was infected with the highly virulent virus. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel Roubein, Lena H. Sun Source Type: news
'It's a matter of when, not if': DailyMail.com asked seven bird flu experts if the H5N1 case in Texas raises risk of a future pandemic... this is what they said
While there is no sign of person-to-person spread - a development that would signal the start of a human epidemic - experts say the ease with which the strain is jumping between species raise the risk of it evolving to infect us more easily. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
US job openings edged higher in February as layoffs rose to pre-pandemic levels
Demand for workers in the US picked up slightly in February in a sign that the job market remains on strong footing, though layoffs picked up that month. There were a seasonally adjusted 8.8 million job openings in February, a notch higher than the prior month’s downwardly revised 8.74 million,…#labordepartment #openings (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
From Great Resignation To Great Stagnation
The Great Resignation generated much buzz – a time that saw employees quit en masse in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, unsatisfied with working conditions and low wages. Three years on, the resignation seems to have turned to stagnation. The University of Phoenix Career Institute released its…#greatresignation #careeroptimismindex #johnwoods #universityofphoenix #canbedone (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
IRS claws back money given to businesses under fraud-ridden COVID-era tax credit program
The IRS says it's making progress with initiatives to claw back money improperly distributed under the Employee Retention Credit. The ERC was designed to help businesses retain employees during pandemic-era shutdowns, but it quickly became a magnet for fraud. Its complex eligibility rules allowed…#erc #dannywerfel (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Forbes has released its list of the world's billionaires. There are more than ever before
Pandemic savings gone for most Americans, but wealthiest 20% have more cash, Fed data shows Forbes has released its annual list of the world's billionaires and in 2024, there are more people on the list than ever – and they're richer than ever. There are 141 more billionaires in the world than…#bernardarnault #lvmh #elonmusk #tesla #amazon #jeffbezos #markzuckerberg #loreal #bettencourt #juliakoch (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GP practices and care homes at wrong end of Covid PPE ‘hierarchy’, inquiry told
A ‘hierarchy’ around personal protective equipment (PPE) in the early days of the pandemic left staff working in primary care, general practice and care homes with a lower standard of protection, the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. Norman Provan, associate director (employment relations) at Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Scotland, told the inquiry that ‘there... Read moreThe post GP practices and care homes at wrong end of Covid PPE ‘hierarchy’, inquiry told appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - April 2, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
