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Federal Job Applicants Can’t Skip ‘Loyalty Question’ 

New essay questions on many federal job applications, asking candidates how they would advance the Trump administration’s policies, are optional, according to the Office of Personnel Management. But new documents submitted in a lawsuit seeking the removal of these...

Engineering Without The Liberal Arts Is A Broken Machine  

This whole-brain approach to engineering is neither emphasized nor practiced nearly enough. Sure, our school, like any school, supports the idea of exploratory education on paper. UConn regularly boasts about their general education program: an overflowing course...

Leadership Macomb Visits Detroit Arsenal

 A group of leaders from throughout Macomb County were introduced to the county’s defense and aerospace industries April 15 with visits to the U.S. Army’s Detroit Arsenal and General Dynamics Land Systems as part of the Leadership Macomb program. The Detroit...

The Tech Industry Is Applying An Uber-Style ‘Gigification’ Model To Nursing

In the late 2000s, surging unemployment during the financial crash gave rise to the gig economy, later supercharged by the emergence of ride-sharing and food-delivery apps. Almost two decades later, gig work is as big as it’s ever been, and is creeping into one of the...
Hybrid Work Leading Driver Underpinning Successful Work

Three years after the Covid-19 pandemic changed the shape of working life, firms are implementing more structured approaches to work. But while 90% of businesses see the enablement of hybrid and remote work as having a positive impact on their bottom line, less than...

How A Consulting Firm Settled On 4.5-Day Workweek

Companies are still trying to find the return-to-office sweet spot, whether offering hybrid arrangements, flexible work schedules, or a four-day workweek. Management consulting firm Insigniam has seemingly found that happy medium after instituting a 4.5-day workweek,...

CEO Of Dropbox Has 90/10 Rule For Remote Work

Drew Houston, the CEO of the file-storage company Dropbox, is continuing to tout a predominantly remote work culture, even as business leaders increasingly call for their workers to return to the office. He told Fortune in an interview published Sunday...

Americans Will Part With Pay To Work From Home

What value would American workers place on the privilege to work from home? The answer: either $4,600 or $6,000 a year, depending on how you do the math. Three years into the remote-work revolution, research increasingly suggests that telework is a commodity, a...

What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers

Shawnika Howell has been a nurse for 13 years, primarily in long-term care, but around the time of the winter 2021 COVID-19 surge, she decided to find some extra work through something new: an app called Clipboard.  The app lets nurses and nurse aides book...

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