Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson took a big chance on himself last season. Rather than sign a long-term deal with the Ravens that would have been measured in the hundreds of millions, he dec...
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America’s productivity engine is sputtering. Fixing it is a $10 trillion opportunity
Since 2005, productivity growth has been lackluster, averaging 1.4% a year, compared to the post-World War II average of 2.2%. That is a problem. Increasing productivity–economic output per unit of in...
Crypto Markets Shrug Off Latest US Productivity, Jobs Data; Bitcoin’s Price Hovers at $22.9K
Equity markets continued their uneven climb upward this year with the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the S&P 500, which has a hefty technology component, jumping 1.8% and 1.1%, respectively, even as fourth...
Are remote workers lazy? Experts weigh in on Elon Musk and Marc Benioff’s productivity problem
It’s well known that Elon Musk is not a fan of remote working. The billionaire made it his first order of business to end Twitter’s “work from anywhere” policy when he took its helm. He has also taken...
Employees and managers have a key disagreement about one factor of remote work that affects productivity
After almost three years of working from home, managers are very much not on the same page as their workers when it comes to productivity. Simply put: Managers believe that working from home reduces p...
Cryptos Flat as Recession Fears Outweigh Better U.S. Productivity
Bitcoin remained reasonably steady at around the $16,850 mark as U.S. nonfarm productivity rose 0.6% for Q4 2022. The slight quarter-on-quarter increase in productivity means that employers can raise ...
The Productivity Decline In Shale Oil Basins Is Illusory
One of the major uncertainties about next year’s oil market centers on the trend in U.S. shale oil production. Because shale drilling is highly responsive to prices and wells decline sharply, producti...
5 Ways To Get Your Great Work Noticed
It’s not just productivity, it’s also perception of productivity. getty New research suggests which generations are most—and least—productive. But productivity is largely perception, and p...
Productivity Plummets For 80% Amid Uncertainty: 5 Ways To Cope
Stress, worry and anxiety are negatively affecting productivity. getty Times are tough and people are increasingly worried about everything from recession and inflation to climate change and global su...
3 Productivity Tips For Focusing This Fall
As Summer Fridays and out-of-office messages wind down, it’s essential that we find new ways to stay … [+] focused. Shutterstock America’s employees have reported increased distraction in 2022 w...
Nobel prize winner Phelps says U.S. needs 1950s-style productivity boom
The U.S. needs to return to the kind of economic and productivity growth it saw in mid-20th century to boost public spirits, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist. “We badly need to get ...
Six Ways Airlines Can Mitigate Rising Labor Costs
Airlines hire a lot of people and the cost of hiring people is rising. To offset this, airlines need … [+] to find new ways to improve efficiency. getty It’s no surprise that hiring people is on...
Google chief warns bloated staff of ‘real concerns’ over productivity
Between slowing revenue growth and an increasingly murky outlook for tech companies in general, Google is tasking its employees to put in harder shifts at work. Amid a larger market downturn over the ...
Get Ready For An Explosion Of Productivity In Biotechnology
plant seeding growing step. concept agriculture getty If biotech follows the same arc of growth as agriculture or computer technology, it could transform the world. For all of our shortcomings, humans...
CleanSpark Purchases Over 1000 Mining Rigs to Strengthen Productivity
Nevada-based bitcoin mining company CleanSpark, Inc has announced that it has acquired 1,061 Whatsminer M30S rigs at a steep discount as it continues to expand its infrastructure. CleanSpark said addi...
Hut 8 Purchases 5,800 Mining Rigs to Improve Productivity in Ontario
Hut 8, a Bitcoin mining company based in Canada, announced on Wednesday that it has bought 5,800 mining machines for its Ontario facility. With the latest purchase, these mining rigs to its fleet at i...
Google’s former HR chief says your boss wants to boil you slowly like a frog to get you back in the office, and it will be terrible for morale and productivity
Beating the Monday blues will be especially trying for Google employees this week. Starting today, workers are required to come into company headquarters three times a week. But according to Laszlo Bo...
ClearSoftware teams with Zellim to launch DAO team productivity app
Zellim, an integrated software solutions company, today announced a partnership with ClearSoftware, a build of decentralized systems, to launch a new decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) platfo...