Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

S ome states call it conservatorship. Others call it guardianship. But whatever you call it, it can be deadly. I t can lead to theft, lies, deception, and the wrongful death of our loved ones by deceitful predators, all in pursuit of the almighty dollar. Consider my mother’s story. Guardianship and the legal system stole her from me. It stole her money, my money, the money designated for my disabled brother, and the house where I took care of her for years.

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Legal Food Controlling Reporting 133

Workplace Insight

MAY 31, 2024

A new report from workplace technology provider Eptura suggests that employee-led hybrid working models and connected technology drive the highest returns for businesses. According to its first half 2024 Workplace Index report [registration], companies with hybrid working models in which employees can choose when to come to the office are seeing the most benefit.

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Maintenance Real Estate Technology Software 115

Work Life

MAY 31, 2024

Loss is a fact of life. Sooner or later, every one of us will lose loved ones, and those losses create a rip in the fabric of our lives. To start to repair that tear, we engage in a grieving process that helps us rewrite the story of our lives in a way that eventually allows us to move forward without the presence of the individual we have lost. The grief process is powerful, but it is slow.

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Controlling 98

WELCOA

MAY 31, 2024

Change is necessary—now more than ever. Between the popularity of remote work and the emergence of AI technologies, it has become increasingly important for organizations to be change ready and adaptable. In the webinar “ Setting the Contexts for Healthy Change ” presented by WELCOA and the National Wellness Institute (NWI), Hanlie van Wyk and Colin Bullen of Virtuositeam shared their tips on making healthy change initiatives succeed in the workplace.

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Sarah Levitt

MAY 31, 2024

And into an enterprise mindset, something many of my clients are asking of their current and aspiring senior leadership, requires the following: Curiosity. About other functions, about the business, about the company’s strategic goals, about other people and their challenges, about how the pieces of the puzzle fit together. A View of the Long Game.

Leadership 52

Leadership 52

Workplace Insight

MAY 31, 2024

Disseminating information about a building to the people who occupy it has come a long way from a basic, intranet desktop interface with warnings about wet floors or notices about charity fundraising. These days, workplace apps promise a much more sophisticated experience, which can be accessed in the palm of your hand. Gartner has a useful definition of workplace apps’ capabilities, stating, “They are used to explore and reserve workspaces, navigate the workplace, find colleagues, plan the best

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Zevo Health

MAY 31, 2024

Existing Tools for Content Moderator Wellbeing The online sphere is rife with harms, spanning from innocuous spam to violent and egregious content. The most harmful content includes child sexual abuse and exploitation imagery, suicide and self-injury content, and terrorism and violent extremism. Human moderators are tasked with removing such harmful content daily – with hundreds of thousands of pieces of content that are audio-visual, text-based, and even live-streamed across platforms.

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Technology Prioritization Leadership Promotion 52

Minding the Workplace

MAY 31, 2024

Last October, leaning on Einstein, at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Wash. DC. Last fall, I accepted an invitation to join the Advisory Committee of the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education , an ongoing, staffed initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , based in Washington D.C.

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