By Doug Aamoth May 15, 2023 With your former commute now a tiny speck in your rearview mirror, as it were, you’d be forgiven for succumbing to cabin fever from time to time. That’s what happens when you eat, sleep, live, and work under one roof. But what if you could work under a … Continue reading Sick of your home office? Try a not-quite-at-home office
By Danica Lo August 14, 2022 Three years into the pandemic, with monkeypox and polio looming large on the horizon, it’s no surprise that many Americans are sick and tired of being bombarded with bad news about public health. For the health and wellness industry, which has long relied on worst-case scenarios to compel consumers … Continue reading How to sell health and wellness when consumers are sick and tired of hearing about it
By Mita Mallick May 26, 2022 One of the questions that has haunted me, plagued me, and followed me throughout my entire career is this: Where are you from? While it may appear to be an innocent question, for many people of color, it is one of the most popular microaggressions we are confronted … Continue reading Your BIPOC employees are sick and tired of getting asked this question
Apple to offer paid parental leave and more sick days to retail employees Apple Store workers have complained of subpar working conditions during the pandemic A. Khalid @askhalid February 9th, 2022 Noah Berger / reuters Apple will expand benefits for all of its retail employees in the US, beginning April 4th. Bloomberg reports the new … Continue reading Apple to offer paid parental leave and more sick days to retail employees
Steve DiGioia May 7, 2021 Tomorrow is a busy day at work. You’ve planned for it, scheduled properly, made the needed operational adjustments, and kept your fingers crossed so that everything will work out as planned. Then it happened… The first thing in the morning you get a call from one of your key employees. … Continue reading Stop the Sick Day Resentment
Sourov De March 5, 2021 It’s happening. Zoom fatigue, the dog days of winter, being inside all the time, day 1,258,739 of the pandemic. We might be feeling okay physically, but there is no shortage of reasons why we might be feeling drained mentally. If we’re not physically “sick” is it okay to take a … Continue reading Don’t Give Your Employees Sick Days – Give Them Wellness Days and Disconnect Fridays
By Justin Pot—Zapier August 29, 2020 Remember your coworkers? They stopped being three-dimensional people months ago and were replaced with fuzzy moving images that you talk over constantly because of lag. Zoom burnout is a well-documented phenomenon, and we’re all feeling it. Hard. So you shouldn’t feel bad if, after a coworker proposes a group … Continue reading Sick of virtual happy hours? Try these 5 activities instead
Joanne McDonagh — December 11, 2018 Follow @rezoomo_com — December 11, 2018 Is encouraging employees to work when they are sick really a smart move? I recently read a couple of articles that showcased companies who offer end of year monetary incentives to their employees for not calling in sick. Not only, are you not … Continue reading HR Guide: Getting Sick Employees To Stay At Home
Hannah Swanson — February 15, 2018 — February 15, 2018 If customer acquisition were always easy, business would be a cakewalk. If acquiring new customers were simple, there would be no books, conferences or the need for B2B marketing organizations to develop a defined strategy. However, managing the costs and methods for customer acquisition and … Continue reading The 11 Common Symptoms of a Sick Customer Acquisition Strategy
by George Simpson, Featured Contributor, October 6, 2016 Apparently IBM experimented with Watson, its cognitive computing platform, to see if it could help Big Blue better manage its approximately $53 million online ad buys. Turns out the Big Blue Box reduced the company’s average cost per click by 35%, and by as much as 71%. … Continue reading Another Reason Not To Take Sick Days
