Research https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/rss en-us Employee benefits: Latest data shows what employers are offering now While providing comprehensive employee benefits may be expensive, it’s well worth the investment to stay competitive with your peers and retain your best people. Other companies are offering employees a host of benefits. And they’re using them at significant rates... While providing comprehensive employee benefits may be expensive, it’s well worth the investment to stay competitive with your peers and retain your best people. Other companies are offering employees a host of benefits. And they’re using them at significant rates...

]]> http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/8571 Fri, 04 Feb 2022 10:03:54 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/8571-employee-benefits-latest-data-shows-what-employers-are-offering-now 2022 may be 'watershed moment' for company culture, LinkedIn says Flexibility may be one of the key trends to shape 2022 for HR, sources told HR Dive, which means employers may need to get creative. Letting workers pick their... Flexibility may be one of the key trends to shape 2022 for HR, sources told HR Dive, which means employers may need to get creative. Letting workers pick their...

]]> http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/8548 Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:06:30 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/8548-2022-may-be-watershed-moment-for-company-culture-linkedin-says Loneliness: How HR leaders can help teams move forward The pandemic has kept people apart. What can HR leaders do to help reduce the impact of loneliness as we go forward?Consider this: More than 40% of employees struggle with mental health issues, and pandemic restrictions left 54% of them feeling isolated.We were already forming fewer friendships than in the past. Previously, as life got busier, our social network got smaller and smaller. Then, COVID hit. Never before has the entire world been subjected to such collective feelings of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and sorrow. Loneliness became pervasive.Colleagues were no longer... The pandemic has kept people apart. What can HR leaders do to help reduce the impact of loneliness as we go forward?

Consider this: More than 40% of employees struggle with mental health issues, and pandemic restrictions left 54% of them feeling isolated.

We were already forming fewer friendships than in the past. Previously, as life got busier, our social network got smaller and smaller. Then, COVID hit. Never before has the entire world been subjected to such collective feelings of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and sorrow. Loneliness became pervasive.

Colleagues were no longer...

]]> http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/8543 Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:27:30 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/8543-loneliness-how-hr-leaders-can-help-teams-move-forward Q4 Strategy Pivots for Marketers to Consider Influencers are far from losing marketing power. According to the State of Influencer Marketing 2019 report, 320 platforms and influencer marketing agencies have been created since May of 2018, and brands are still seeing... Influencers are far from losing marketing power. According to the State of Influencer Marketing 2019 report, 320 platforms and influencer marketing agencies have been created since May of 2018, and brands are still seeing...

]]> http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/6241 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/6241-q4-strategy-pivots-for-marketers-to-consider Photo Shoot Impact Your new most annoying overachieving coworker is a robot Imagine that you’re assigned a dull, repetitive task at work: moving inventory by forklift, say, or organizing files by date. Now imagine there’s a robot next to you with the same assignment, who’s much better and faster at doing what you’re supposed to be doing. How would that make you feel?... Imagine that you’re assigned a dull, repetitive task at work: moving inventory by forklift, say, or organizing files by date. Now imagine there’s a robot next to you with the same assignment, who’s much better and faster at doing what you’re supposed to be doing. How would that make you feel?...

]]> http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5801 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 05:00:00 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5801-article-headline Assembly Robot The Case for Civility in Manufacturing Anyone that's read my column over time knows that in OEM supplier negotiations I am an advocate of finding the middle ground and making the pie bigger. Why? Because I know from experience that if... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4075 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:43:06 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4075-the-case-for-civility-in-manufacturing Waste Not: This App Just Solved A Manufacturing Riddle Larger Than All The Atoms In The Universe Dirk Uhde isn't the kind of guy who talks a lot about software. So when a team of data scientists and software developers from GE Digital's European Foundry met him amid the sparks, grime and welding equipment of the industrial plant he manages in southeastern France, he struggled to follow their technical parlance. When he tried to explain how his machinery worked, they didn't have an easy time either... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4074 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:35:01 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4074-waste-not-this-app-just-solved-a-manufacturing-riddle-larger-than-all-the-atoms-in-the-universe NASA Teases A Major New Exoplanet Discovery Our cosmic neighborhood is starting to feel a little more crowded. This week NASA will announce new findings about planets orbiting other stars that look to be the biggest exoplanet news since last year's announcement of a potentially habitable exoplanet around our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. The space agency has... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3924 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:56:54 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3924-nasa-teases-a-major-new-exoplanet-discovery Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces $3 Billion Investment To Cure Disease The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced a new program informally called Chan Zuckerberg Science to invest $3 billion over the next decade to help cure, prevent, or manage all disease. The money comes from the $45 billion organization Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan started last year to... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3485 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:47:54 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3485-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-announces-3-billion-investment-to-cure-disease A Tour Of The Most Tricked-Out Science Ship In America Take a Tour of the Most Tricked-Out Science Ship in America. This 238-foot beauty isn't just oddly comfortable-it comes equipped with some serious tech for some serious oceanography... [Video] http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3452 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:25:40 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3452-a-tour-of-the-most-tricked-out-science-ship-in-america Edward Snowden: The most wanted man in the world The message arrives on my "clean machine," a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. "Change in plans," my contact says. "Be in the lobby of the Hotel by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you." ES is Edward Snowden, the most wanted man in the world. For almost nine months,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3371 Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:19:13 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3371-edward-snowden-the-most-wanted-man-in-the-world iPhone 7 Design 'Confirmed' In First Leaked Images Today we get our first look at the iPhone 7 and, alongside arguably the most controversial design change in smartphone history, potential owners are in for a shock... French site NoWhereElse (home to prolific leaker OnLeaks) has obtained the first iPhone 7 schematics and they reveal Apple plans to change - well,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3183 Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:21:25 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/3183-iphone-7-design-confirmed-in-first-leaked-images