Management Message You Can Use: Let’s have some fun this holiday!
Wishing you joy and peace! It’s common these days to complain during the holidays about how commercialized the season has become. In fact, complaining…
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Robotic distribution spread unevenly
Robots are working in manufacturing but their use is heavily concentrated in the Midwest and upper South, a Brookings Institution study found. The robotic…
How many hours do people actually work?
Since 1938, the official work week has been 40 hours. That was a triumph for workers laboring 12 to 16 hours a day. The labor motto was: 8 hours work; 8…
Pros and Cons of shorter work weeks
Companies have been experimenting with shorter work days for at least a decade and, despite announcements that the 40-hour week is dead, there have been…
Younger workers think work flexibility is a right
Millennials and college students don’t expect to go to work at a desk and stay there. Surveys abound as to younger workers’ beliefs in their workplace…
New AR experiences on the horizon
Business Notes New AR experiences could benefit retail If Pokemon Go didn’t bring people walking into retail Pokestops, new games on the horizon just…
OSHA rolls back regulations, reporting
OSHA has rolled back some of its detailed reporting on workplace fatalities, a move that has been backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which thought the…
Do over: When first impressions are bad
You don’t always get a do-over in life but, with a little effort, people can help erase bad first impressions. Remember that a bad first impression isn’t…
How to make lemonade out of lemons
Somebody has to do it, and that somebody could turn out to be you. When you are assigned a project or task that seems unimportant, or one that could be…
The Idea man, innovator who persevered, survived failure
Wham-O, the business Arthur Melin and friend Richard Knerr started in 1948, was based on a slingshot that could shoot food up to a hunter’s falcons. Not…