https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/us/politics/john-fetterman-health.html?smid=url-share
Wull, dang.
Feel better, John Fetterman. Take care of him, Giselle Fetterman.
https://people.com/movies/raquel-welch-dies-at-82/
Welp… As an adult who was an adolescent male in the 1970s, I knew this day was coming….
https://mstdn.io/@natematias@social.coop/109724013042485578
Layoffs are yet another area where companies refuse to follow the science. Here’s what the science says.
Layoffs:
– don’t save money
– don’t improve company performance
– don’t increase stock pricess
– destroy trust
– have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees
So why do layoffs? It’s a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it
Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies
«How does the state expand its workforce? Cooper suggested leveraging North Carolina’s 800,000 veterans; Allowing in more immigrants; retraining the formerly incarcerated; and encouraging governments and private businesses to increase the hiring of people with disabilities.
“We can attract the jobs. Those jobs can be created by business people. But if we don’t have strong, smart, dedicated, diverse people to fill those positions, then we got a problem,” Cooper said.
After the forum, the governor told reporters that a healthy workforce is also an important factor in the discussion. To that end, he’s encouraging state lawmakers to finally expand Medicaid coverage in the state.»
https://abc11.com/emerging-issues-forum-north-carolina-business-workforce-workers/12810350/
Remember, y’all:
“It’s not failure; it’s a data point.”
🙂
As my family’s most alcoholic member, i have this to say: creme de Violette is mostly sugar and purple. Don’t bother.
Tried Aviation and Final Say. Meh.
@courtney 🔗 https://friend.camp/users/courtney/statuses/109837017121621606 – @currentbias @jackdaw_ruiz you can always tell who lacks actual friends who will pry the keyboard out of your hands and force you to stop glaring at the lightbulb full of strangers your brain has convinced you it’s important to yell at.
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