A good performance management process is one of the more elusive aspects of employee engagement and development. Research shows that the vast majority of managers and HR leaders don’t believe in the current performance management processes their companies offer, but developing a new one is no small task. READ MORE
Performance Management In An Agile World
As a professional services technology company, over the last few months we have been helping companies, organizations and public services agencies quickly provide their employees with the systems and capabilities they need to be able to work remotely. READ MORE
Coronavirus forcing businesses to adapt and rethink how they make money
Many business owners are changing the way they make money as they attempt to recoup revenue lost to the coronavirus outbreak. READ MORE
NASA’s newest test pilots are veteran astronauts, friends
The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX’s brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons. READ MORE
Artificial intelligence can guess your personality from a SELFIE
Facial recognition technology can determine a person's personality by analysing an emotionless selfie, a study claims. READ MORE
How Elon Musk was inspired to found Tesla, SpaceX after being fired from PayPal
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is about to make history as SpaceX prepares to launch NASA astronauts into orbit next Wednesday aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
President Trump has confirmed to FOX he will be attending.
While this highlights one of Musk's many innovative successes, he also has a long list of failures, but they’re all just a part of his success. READ MORE
Covid-19 Will Accelerate the AI Health Care Revolution
On New Year’s Eve of last year, the artificial intelligence platform BlueDot picked up an anomaly. It registered a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. BlueDot, based in Toronto, Canada, uses natural language processing and machine learning to track, locate, and report on infectious disease spread. It sends out its alerts to a variety of clients, including health care, government, business, and public health bodies. It had spotted what would come to be known as Covid-19, nine days before the World Health Organization released its statement alerting people to the emergence of a novel coronavirus. READ MORE
Restaurant chains see sales improving as dining rooms reopen
Fast food restaurants — well equipped for drive-thru and takeout service — have fared better than sit-down restaurants as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the U.S., but that gap could start to close as dining rooms reopen. READ MORE
Female Fortune 500 CEOs reach an all-time high, but it's still a small percentage
The number of women running Fortune 500 companies has hit an all-time record of 37.
Even though the number of female CEOs is up, that's still only 7.4% of the Fortune 500 ranked businesses compiled annually by the magazine. READ MORE
U.S. payroll protection program: What has changed in round two?
The Small Business Administration (SBA) on Monday will release $310 billion in funds for the second round of its program that aims to help small businesses hurt by the novel coronavirus disruption to cover their payroll costs. READ MORE
Broad 3-to-1 support for payroll tax cut, new deductions
Voters broadly support President Trump’s call for temporary tax changes to boost the economy during the coronavirus crisis, especially a suspension of the payroll tax. READ MORE
How coronavirus could damage Social Security
What you need to know about potential impacts on program's future. READ MORE
GM suspends dividends, share repurchases in coronavirus pandemic
Auto maker says it extended $3.6 billion under its three-year revolving credit agreement to April 2022. READ MORE
Most losing jobs to coronavirus think they’ll return: Poll
One in four American adults say someone in their home has lost a job due to COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE
Zoombot – Automated Video Meeting AI
Let me just say, Zoom is an incredible video conferencing tool, however, it’s become SO useful during this Worldwide WFH-athon that my number of Zoom meetings have gone through the mesosphere and is currently on Mars. There’s barely even time for bio-breaks, Reddit, or actually getting work done. It’s as if Zoom has turned into the Oasis from Ready Player One where everyone spends every waking hour of their day inside. READ MORE
U.S. consumer prices record largest drop in five years
U.S. consumer prices fell by the most in more than five years in March and further decreases are likely as the novel coronavirus outbreak suppresses demand for some goods and services, offsetting price increases related to shortages resulting from disruptions to the supply chain. READ MORE
Could electricity consumption during coronavirus predict the depth of a recession?
With businesses across not only the U.S. but around the world shut down in an effort to mitigate the spread of the global coronavirus pandemic, people are concerned about just how severe the economic fallout will be. READ MORE
Pfizer announces 'important advances' in fight against coronavirus
Pfizer Inc. said it's making "important advances" in the drug company's battle against the coronavirus. READ MORE
Coronavirus Could Transform the World of Work. Are Businesses Ready?
An ever-growing number of U.S. companies are temporarily shuttering their offices and moving to telework to prevent coronavirus’ spread, raising important questions about short-term business success, and the long-term impact this might have on the world of work. READ MORE
Unemployment claims spiked to new record last week
The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits surged to more than 6.6 million last week, breaking a record high for the second week in a row as more states and cities enforced strict stay-at-home measures in an attempt to stop the coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE