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JD Sports is implementing a new policy requiring all head office employees worldwide to return to the office at least four days a week, effective July 1. This decision will [...]

In This Issue / Best of the blogs Office workers’ new best friend https://bbc.com/worklife Ever since the launch of AI chatbot ChatGPT, employers have “scrambled” to keep its use in [...]

A recent iPhone ban among Chinese state companies has office workers worried they may be next. Some fretted on social media that their firms might start banning iPhones to align [...]

Wildfires in Canada are sending smoke to cities across the northeastern US. In a memo to staff on Wednesday, Google told office workers in NYC to work from home, per [...]

2023 JAN 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Researchers detail new data in exercise. According to news reporting originating from [...]

Summer air travel volumes are outpacing carriers' expectations -- and preparation. Delta's 'Peach Corps' of office workers is being activated to help at hubs in New York and Atlanta. CEO [...]

As employers grapple with whether to recall their teams to in-office work or to offer more flexibility with a remote or hybrid workforce, new data revealed by First Insight indicate [...]

Many companies in the United States and abroad are facing a new reality: increasing rates of retirement among Baby Boomers. As these professionals--who were born between 1946 and 1964--head off [...]

Study Objectives: To determine whether name and accent cues that the caller is Black shape physician offices' responses to telephone-based requests for well-child visits.Method and Data: In this pilot study, we employed a quasi-experimental audit design and examined a stratified national sample of pediatric and family practice offices. Our final data include information from 205 audits (410 completed phone calls). Qualitative data were blind-coded into binary variables. Our case-control comparisons using McNemar's tests focused on acceptance of patients, withholding information, shaping conversations, and misattributions.Findings: Compared to the control group, 'Black' auditors were less likely to be told an office was accepting new patients and were more likely to experience both withholding behaviors and misattributions about public insurance. The strength of associations varied according to whether the cue was based on name or accent. Additionally, the likelihood and ways office personnel communicated that they were not accepting patients varied by region.Conclusions: Linguistic profiling over the telephone is an aspect of structural racism that should be further studied and perhaps integrated into efforts to promote equitable access to care. Future research should look reactions to both name and accent, taking practice characteristics and regional differences into consideration.KEYWORDSsociology, access/demand/utilization of services, child and adolescent health, determinants of health/population health/socioeconomic causes of health, racial/ethnic differences in health and health care, 1 | INTRODUCTIONWell-child visits are considered the 'foundation of preventive pediatrics.' (1) Consistent access to these types of visits can contribute to a reduction in long-term health issues (2) in [...]

If you'd asked us a few years ago which jobs were first in the firing line for AI automation, we would have probably answered that delivery drivers, factory workers and [...]

Pitney Bowes revealed a new study highlighting key trends and behaviors in smart locker usage. According to a media release, the study of 2,200 Americans conducted by Morning Consult for [...]

Amazon has a software that systematically removes or pressures out 6% of low-ranked office workers every year to meet the company's target for turnover, a metric Amazon calls 'unregretted attrition,' [...]

Amazon ranks office workers in evaluations to cut 6% of them yearly, the Seattle Times reports. One reviewed document mandates considering workers' 'future contributions compared to others.' Insider has reported [...]

At Mantova's Two-Street Music, order takers aren't allowed: only salespeople. It's an important distinction to the Eureka, California-based music business, currently run by brothers Anthony and Nick Mantova, but that [...]

Everything a pharmacist does has consequences. Especially moving toward increased clinical services. As the pharmacist moves closer to the top of their scope of practice, the entire pharmacy support staff [...]

75% of U.S. office workers have witnessed some form of workplace misconduct during their careers. Source: Vault Platform, bit.ly/3S6ho5n. See 'Management Accountants and Corporate Compliance' on p. [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Japan Today has announced Tokyo-based budget airline Skymark Airlines will introduce a four-day workweek for office employees, as part of efforts to keep their jobs, [...]

Amazon is giving some employees the option to continue working remotely through June 2021, (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/amazon-to-let-employees-work-from-home-through-june-2021?srnd=premium&sref=Zyubqcqcqcqc) Bloomberg reported Tuesday and Business Insider confirmed. 'Employees who work in a role that can [...]

Ford's entire roster of 'white-collar workers,' in North America, which number in the tens of thousand, will 'continue to work from home through at least next June,' wrote Jordyn Grzelewski [...]

Byline: Rintu Mariam Biju The Karnataka High Court recently directed the Karnataka State Bar Council (KSBC) to set apart a reasonable amount for advocate clerks from the Rs 5 crore [...]

Byline: Meera Emmanuel On June 16, the Court had strongly urged for an amendment to be brought to the State Bar Council Rules so that interim welfare fund payouts can [...]

Byline: JANON FISHER Temperature checks could be required for all city office workers returning to the job during the first phase of reopening the economy. Under an executive order signed [...]

CME Group announced that it will reopen its Eurodollar options trading pit on August 10. Over the next few weeks, the company will reconfigure the pit to meet social distancing [...]

Men's Warehouse owner, Tailored Brands, is considering a potential bankruptcy after the COVID-19 lockdown kept America's office workers at home, putting a damper on demand for new suits, according to [...]

According to internal Tesla emails obtained by The Verge, 'a Panasonic employee at Tesla's solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York,' tested positive in March for COVID-19, writes Sean O'Kane [...]

JPMorgan analyst Terence Khi upgraded Frasers Centrepoint Trust to Overweight from Neutral with a price target of S$2.50, up from S$2.20. The company's suburban malls should be first to recover [...]

Byline: NREI Staff Warehouses Are The New Darling of Commercial Real-Estate Thanks to a Surge in E-Commerce, With Firms like Macy's and Boeing Selling while Amazon Snaps Space Up'The US [...]

Byline: Dustin Walsh With manufacturers ramping up and the potential for office workers and some broader definition of retail allowed in coming weeks, the prospect of employees passing through doors [...]

Judge Alan D. Lourie has been selected to receive the 2020 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Federal Circuit. According to a media release, Lourie celebrates his 30th [...]

Summary: Kenya's pastoralists often receive less for animals sold at local markets than they are worth, but new digitisation processes could help them to achieve a fairer price. Tom Collins [...]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company's priority remains the health, safety and well-being of its global workforce, patients, customers and communities where it operates. Over the course of several weeks, [...]

Reports Q1 revenue $78.1M, consensus $77.09M. Q1 EPS includes charges of $10.2M or 16c per share. These charges are comprised of $3.2M of restructuring, $2.7M of non-cash interest expense, $2.3M [...]

Reports Q1 revenue $392.79M, consensus $422.53M. The company said, 'As people sheltered in place to stop the spread of the virus and energy demand plummeted, that already difficult situation on [...]

'At Rayonier, our first priority is the health and safety of our employees and contractors,' stated Nunes. 'We are currently working hard to balance this priority with the designation of [...]

Weyland Tech has expanded AtozGo, its food delivery service for office workers in Jakarta, Indonesia, to the city's residential tenants. The extended service area and hours of operation allows the [...]

Havertys helped lead the fight to combat the spread of COVID-19 by closing its stores March 19 and halting deliveries March 21. Expectations at that time were for a reopening [...]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images New York is adjusting to the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic even for some of its most time-honored traditions. Governor Andrew Cuomo has (https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1251570033395974145) implemented an Executive [...]

Byline: Tim Hearden Setting work stations 6 feet apart if possible, reducing the number of employees who are physically present, installing barriers between workers and restricting visitors are among the [...]

Byline: Dave Leggett Nissan has said its Japanese operations have implemented a number of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including precautionary guidelines and remote working. The company said [...]

Approximately 20% of existing home office headcount has been furloughed or laid off. Furloughed team members will receive ongoing pay through at least April 8 and will have the option [...]

Nice (NICE) business Nice inContact, has entered into a partnership with Zoom Video (ZM). Zoom and Nice inContact are providing an integrated solution to enable remote employee collaboration and distributed [...]

Byline: Patricia Kirk The COVID-19 pandemic has upended daily life and economies around the world. Many wonder what a post-Coronavirus world will look like, how it will affect life and [...]

Haverty Furniture announced it would extend the suspension of its operations through April 30 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Havertys closed its stores March 19 and halted deliveries March [...]

The 'The Transition to a Successful Work at Home Agent (WAHA) Model' report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The overall contact center outsourcing services market is forecast to exhibit [...]

A Panasonic (PCRFY) worker at Tesla's (TSLA) solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York tested positive in March for the coronavirus, The Verge's Sean O'Kane reports, citing internal emails. The [...]

Byline: Fiona Geeson As working from home becomes the new normal for office workers worldwide, virtual meetings are quickly becoming an essential way to communicate with customers and staff. While [...]

Urban Outfitters announced global retail stores will remain temporarily closed until further notice due to the continued spread of COVID-19. Since March 14 when we closed our stores to the [...]

A locked-down world, as seen from the study of Unilever's boss ON MARCH 13TH Alan Jope, boss of Unilever, a consumer-goods conglomerate that makes everything from Dove soap to Knorr [...]

2020 MAR 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on Environmental Health - Environmental Research and Public [...]

Efraim Grinberg, Chairman and CEO, stated, 'In a period of unprecedented times where COVID-19 has affected communities around the world, we're focused on the health of our associates, customers and [...]