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Indefinite. Or even permanent. These are words companies are using about their employees working from home.
13 Ways to Invest in Yourself
The stock market isn’t the only way to reap meaningful returns. Here are ways to invest in yourself—some are free and take only a few hours of your time.
The Untold Story of Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell’s Visionary 1980s Tech Incubator
After bringing us Pong and Chuck E. Cheese’s, the legendary entrepreneur built a startup factory that tackled 21st-century ideas with 1980s tech.
How to Recover From Covid-19 at Home
Rest and fluids are essential, but not always enough. Here are some more things you can do to feel better.
Where Your Wool Comes From
The eight Peruvian immigrants who work as shepherds on the S. Martinez ranch in Washington have a colossal job:
Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked?
Remember, early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, the speculation as to how apocalyptic it would be if this disease hit the African continent? I do.
Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.
We’ve been taught that if we want more — money, achievement, vitality, joy, peace of mind — we need to do more, to add more to our ever-growing to-do list.
One Notebook Could Replace All the Productivity Apps That Have Failed You
You may have heard of bullet journaling, probably from your sister or your coworker or some other enviably competent person you have the pleasure of knowing.
Why you would add humor to your content marketing
For your business to stand out, you need to ensure that your messages reach people through an ocean of online content. A powerful way to make that happen is to add humor to your content.
Carnival swamped with cruise bookings after announcing August return
Carnival Cruise Line was inundated with bookings last week when they announced that they would return to the high seas after months of coronavirus lockdown.
Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next.
You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, but warnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades.
Tech giants offer free tools to support remote working
Enterprise plans of Microsoft Teams & Google Hangouts Meet are now available on extended free trials.
Good Leadership Is About Communicating “Why”
In an ongoing crisis, clear communication is more important and more difficult than when things seem normal. Employees and customers are hungry for information, so we’re tempted to pull together presentations and communicate with urgency instead of...
Gartner updates 2020 future of work trends for post-pandemic world
The post-pandemic world will bring workplace change in terms of health support, remote working, gig workers, and employee tracking, according to Gartner’s updated future of work trends for 2020.
Understanding experiential marketing trends in a post-COVID scenario
We know the events and experiential industry is going through uncertain times. With brand spends on event marketing on hold, everyone in the sector is asking how soon will the activity return to normal? Will it return to the pre-COVID time?
Here’s What You Do With Two-Thirds of the World’s Jets When They Can’t Fly
The skies are eerily empty these days, presenting a new challenge for the world’s embattled airlines as they work to safeguard thousands of grounded planes parked wingtip to wingtip on runways and in storage facilities.
The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide
More than 90 vaccines are being developed against SARS-CoV-2 by research teams in companies and universities across the world. Researchers are trialling different technologies, some of which haven’t been used in a licensed vaccine before.
All the things COVID-19 will change forever, according to 30 top experts
We’re four weeks into the massive time-out forced on us by coronavirus. Many of us have spent much of that time trying to get used to the radical lifestyle change the virus has brought. But we’re also beginning to think about the end of the crisis...
How to Cut Your Hair at Home
So, your hair is getting long, and all of the salons are closed because of a global pandemic. It may be time to cut your own hair at home. Stylists will advise you to avoid getting too overzealous with your scissors, but sometimes you're left with no...
The Five Stages of Team Development
For teams to be effective, the people in the team must be able to work together to contribute collectively to team outcomes. But this does not happen automatically: it develops as the team works together. You have probably had an experience when you...
New platform helps hoteliers offer beds for coronavirus-related needs
Hotel technology company Cloudbeds has created an online portal to connect hotels with health care providers and local governments.
“HospitalityHelps” is the name of the initiative to enable hotels to offer their properties for use as field...The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy
In the spring of 2012, the Washington Conservation Corps faced a sudden influx of beach debris on the state’s southwestern shore. Time and tide were beginning to deposit the aftereffects of Japan’s March 11, 2011, tsunami. One of the myriad objects...
What Role Will Chinese Outbound Tourism Play in Post-Crisis Travel?
In the last decade, a dominant narrative emerged about travel’s inexorable upward slope: It is, in great part, thanks to the growth of the Chinese outbound travel market.
As Wolfgang Georg Arlt, CEO of the Chinese Outbound Tourism Research...20 sci-fi movies and TV shows to binge watch on Netflix right now
Strange things are afoot on the planet Earth. In a series of events that could themselves form the plot of a sci-fi nightmare, we find ourselves in the middle of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Residents across the US, like many countries, are...
Social distancing is slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too
As governments around the world have pushed their citizens away from populated places to slow the spread of Covid-19, they may not have realized that they were also combatting other infectious diseases, such as the seasonal flu.
In Negotiations, Givers Are Smarter Than Takers
In 2010, a Costa Rican diplomat named Christiana Figueres set out to do something that many people saw as impossible. The United Nations had appointed her to build a global agreement to fight climate change. She needed to get 195 countries on board...