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Study: Skilled Trades Shortages Threaten $1 Trillion Annual Loss

A large shortage of workers to fill millions of skilled trades jobs could result in $1 trillion in economic losses annually, according to new research from JLL. The commercial real estate services company revealed Tuesday that by 2030, an estimated 2.1 million skilled...

You Can’t Be Disconnected At Home And Magically Connected At Work

Here’s the story most leaders carry: I’m different at work. I’m on. I’m focused. Whatever is going on at home stays at home. I understand the appeal. It feels like discipline. Like professionalism. Like exactly the kind of thing a high performer should be able to do....

Paying Workers To Come In — Instead Of Mandating RTO

Employees at Superhuman, which offers AI assistant apps including Grammarly, dug in their heels when a two-day in-office mandate was introduced last April. It was met with "negative energy and sentiment," chief people officer Kenny Mendes told Business Insider. So,...

The Future Of Engineering Is Hybrid

The future of engineering will not be defined by AI alone. It will be defined by how humans and AI work together. AI is a human-created technology. It becomes valuable when paired with domain knowledge, judgment and accountability. Humans with AI can do more than AI...
Zero-Trust at Home: No-Exception Remote Work

The zero-trust approach has long been a popular strategy for organizations looking for airtight security in the workplace. By consistently questioning who a user is and what they want to do, we expel a potentially harmful blind trust; assumptions go out the...

How to Grow Your Business in the Gig Economy

It only takes an idea and $50 to create an LLC online today. From a technology perspective, a small business owner can replicate anything that a larger corporation can. Bill Furlong, founder, and CEO of SquareStack and author of “Appify Your Business” says today’s...

The Best (and Worst) States for Remote Work

With attitudes and policies around remote work changing rapidly, workers across the country are beginning to ask themselves an exciting question: If I could work from home forever, where would I live? Among workers with jobs that can be done remotely, only...

Student Tutoring Program Finds Pandemic Success

Children and parents alike have faced unique struggles in the past year under quarantine; many caretakers have taken on a new responsibility: teaching their children at home. To lend a hand, two friends on the pre-medical path at UC Davis — Vikki Krysov and Michelle...

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