By Shalene Gupta December 04, 2023 Gender inequity is everywhere, from household chores and leisure time to salaries and now “green skills.” As climate change looms over us, skills that can help solve environmental problems are becoming increasingly valuable. However, a new report from LinkedIn finds that only 1 in 10 women have so-called … Continue reading Women are falling behind in the green economy. LinkedIn says the gender gap is getting worse
By Shalene Gupta November 08, 2023 The best moment of the workday, in all honesty, is probably lunch. (Okay, maybe it’s the second best moment, and the first best is clocking out.) Yet, increasingly, the sacred lunch hour seems to be in danger of going extinct. EzCater, a company that provides corporate food solutions, … Continue reading Skipping your lunch break contributes to workplace burnout and makes you worse at your job
By AJ Hess February 26, 2023 The cloud of dread hanging over you on Sunday evening; the wave of anxious anticipation you feel ahead of a new week; the cold sweat you get thinking about Monday. These feelings have a name: the “Sunday scaries.” According to recent data from LinkedIn and Headspace, the … Continue reading It’s not just you. Your Sunday scaries are getting worse
By Christopher Zara February 22, 2023 As you debate whether to pay Mark Zuckerberg for a blue verification badge on Instagram, here’s an interesting piece of data that you might help you decide. Engagement rates on Instagram have generally been falling for brands, even as those brands continue to post at the … Continue reading Brands have an Instagram engagement problem, and it’s getting worse
LastPass reveals another security breach Mariella Moon @mariella_moon LastPass CEO Karim Toubba has revealed that the password manager has been breached again. Toubba said the company detected an unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service that it shares with its parent company GoTo, which was formerly known as LogMeIn. To investigate the incident, … Continue reading The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported
By Sam Becker October 31, 2022 Billionaires raked it in during the early stages of the pandemic, but 2022 has not been nearly as kind. In fact, since the beginning of the year, some of the world’s richest tech billionaires—a list that includes Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Jeff … Continue reading Big Tech billionaires lost fortunes this year. The hit to your 401(k) might feel even worse
Melanie Green — May 4, 2020 While nearly 80% of the country supports ongoing shutdown measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing minority of U.S. citizens and small business owners that want to open up shop. No one will say that this process has been well-managed or easy. Every business is facing … Continue reading How Reopening Too Early Could Be Worse for Small Businesses
Like a virus it infects all the major review sites, especially Google and Amazon. Greg Sterling on April 22, 2020 Fake reviews are a growing problem for consumers and the local and product-search sites they rely on to make purchase decisions. We know from multiple studies that roughly 90% of internet users consult online reviews … Continue reading Fake reviews problem is much worse than people know
By Chad Hill, Published October 6, 2014 The internet has changed everything. You might say that it’s put everything out in the open, with very little left to the imagination. Before the web and social media, every customer interaction was mostly a private matter between the business and the customer. Now it’s likely to be written … Continue reading For Better or for Worse: Six Ways the Web Has Changed Relationships Between Businesses and Consumers
