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Do Women Run Their Businesses Differently Than Men?
Dr. Jennings’ interest in whether women entrepreneurs tend to run their businesses differently than their male counterparts stemmed from competing arguments that were popular when she was pursuing her doctoral studies. The more optimistic view was that...
Why A Growing Number Of Business Leaders Believe In Learning By Working
If you want a good job, you need to have a college degree. At least, that’s the story we have been hearing for decades now. In many ways, having that degree on your resume has served as a proxy of innate talent and potential. It may also have something to do with...
How To Recognize Burnout When An Employee Doesn’t
The conversation around burnout in the tech industry typically revolves around prevention, which is likely due to the fact that burnout is thought of as something that comes on all at once instead of in stages. That’s not exactly true, though: In 1974, psychologist...
The Companies Sticking To Fully Remote Work
The days of fully remote set-ups are past their peak for most employees. According to July 2023 LinkedIn data, seen by BBC Worklife, there has been a 50% year-over-year decrease in remote roles advertised on the platform in the US, and a 21.5% drop in the UK. Yet...
HR’s Unique Role In Making The Healthcare Industry More Forward-Focused
The human resources world is no longer a reactive function. Gone are the days when an HR manager would sit back until an employee comes in with a benefit or payroll question, HR would answer it and then both move on. HR has been on a necessary journey to be...
Four Of 10 Most-In Demand Jobs Are In Healthcare
Healthcare jobs make up four of the 10 most in-demand jobs, according to an analysis by job search platform Ladders. Ladders identified the top occupations with the highest number of job openings on their site between January and August that also advertised a...
As Americans Age, More Are Working Into Their 80s
Sometimes Fred Strnisa thinks about retirement. When he sees familiar names in the obituaries, or when the winter wind whips his upstate New York home, Strnisa, 81, wonders if maybe it’s time for him to stop working as a professor of semiconductor manufacturing and...
Opinion: We Need New Types Of Unions To Represent New Types Of Workers
This Labor Day, America's labor movement is at the brink of a pivotal moment. Conservatives are now joining liberals in embracing the vital role of labor unions for advancing a worker-centric society—albeit with some crucial reforms in mind. This comes at a time when...
