Do you know how much time you spend looking at a computer screen each day? The screen can be the smallest Smartphone screen or as large as a desktop monitor. According to a recently released report by eMarketer, Americans put in seven hours and 50 minutes on average per day watching some type of digitally… Read more »
Similar to changing an undesired habit, achieving a work-life balance is not as easy as one may think. Therefore, it is no surprise that helping individuals find and achieve work-life balance has become a billion-dollar industry. What makes work life balance so elusive for so many? One of the most important reasons why many of… Read more »
Hotels offer their guests many amenities, but perhaps no amenity has more influence on where guests stay than a swimming pool. Whether your hotel pool is indoors or outdoors, it acts as the magnet that draws your guests together. It can also be a source of safety issues. Hotel pools present several potential safety concerns… Read more »
2020 ushered in plenty of changes that many referred to as the “new normal.” One of the most significant changes concerned the workplace. Because of guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), many employers switched from onsite work to remote work. As we move through 2021, remote work has remained a part… Read more »
Does your job involve using a ladder? Do you know what to do to prevent falling when climbing a ladder? According to the latest data compiled by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) in 2017, falls from stools and ladders caused more than 270,000 emergency room visits, as well as nearly 42,000 hospitalizations and/or deaths…. Read more »
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and the business environment has changed. Office spaces have been replaced with home offices and meetings have been replaced with videoconferencing. But for all that technology has done to help us collaborate and communicate, many employees are reporting a side effect of this new landscape. Whether you… Read more »
Autonomous vehicles are considered the future. From Uber to Apple to Amazon, investment in self-driving cars and trucks continues to ramp up. But there’s a long way to go before these reach critical mass as training artificial intelligence is laborious. When it comes to humans as drivers, it is easy for our brains to identify… Read more »
After nine months of working from home, many wonder if the new normal is here to stay. While an exciting proposition for some employees who have found themselves more productive and satisfied with work-life balance, such an initiative raises questions as well. As the initial move to remote work was considered a rapid response by… Read more »
As 2020 comes to a close, the coronavirus global pandemic is still ongoing while hopes of an effective vaccine appear to be at our doorstep. We’ve made it through various phases of shut-downs and re-openings. Needless to say, whenever the reopening of your business occurs, business leaders need to plan for the nuances in workers’… Read more »
On December 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned users of SolarWinds that hackers had compromised the system. A system that is used by hundreds of thousands of entities including several federal agencies, every one of the top ten telecommunications companies, every big five accounting firm, 85 percent of the Fortune 500, and… Read more »
