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There has been a lot of articles on working from home, the burnout and workaholism in the US, and now vacation or lack thereof in the US – basically stuff that kind of addresses employee mental health in a way. So, a couple of months ago, New York Times’ DealBook had an article about vacation…
During the flu pandemic of 1918, historians and scientists estimated that the deaths were around 675K in the US; a few weeks ago, we breached it. Based upon the 7 day moving average of the death rate, we are a few days away from breaching 700K if we use the John Hopkins University numbers (JHU),…
Since I’m constantly scanning the horizon for what may be coming around the curve, I follow Heather McGowan because she is at the forefront on the future of work and learning and/or education. As I have mentioned once before, I learned of Heather through Thomas Friedman, who also has good ideas on what the future…
Last weekend I worried about a tropical storm that became a hurricane at the last minute and then became a devastating flooding event. After that, I was kind of listless the rest of the week so my creativity and productivity is at a low point. Tonight, I’m just going to do a quick post about…
Well, it’s twenty years since that dreadful day. Since then America, and the world, has experienced a lot: the Great Recession, a black president, forever war, the rise of the Republican hard right, 2016 election, pandemic, multiple racial reckonings, climate change. Um, it’s been stressful, especially the last two years with America being split. I…
“The American economy runs on poverty, or at least the constant threat of it. Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them, together, require a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages. On the right, the barest glimmer of worker power is treated as a…