Employees just starting out are risking their career advancement by continuing to work remotely, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin said.
“If you are early in your career, you are making a grave mistake not being back at work,” Griffin said Monday in a conversation with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker at the Economic Club of Chicago. “It’s incredibly difficult to have the managerial experiences and interpersonal experiences that you need to have to take your career forward in a work-remotely environment.”
A Philadelphia hospital nursing assistant wearing scrubs and body armor shot a co-worker to death inside the medical facility early Monday before fleeing and wounding two police officers in a gunfight, authorities said.
Healthcare workers at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch went on strike Monday, alleging understaffing, difficult working conditions, and unfair labor practices, union officials said. Sutter Delta Medical Center employees say they are worried for patient and staff safety and that conditions are dire in the facility as management ignores their concerns.
We never could have predicted how much our lives would soon be upended by the Covid-19 pandemic. Then other major stressors unfolded in quick succession, compounding the damage to our collective mental health.
Although employers have responded with initiatives like mental health days or weeks, four-day workweeks, and enhanced counseling benefits or apps, they’re not enough. It’s not enough to simply offer the latest apps or employ euphemisms like “well-being” or “mental fitness.” Employers must connect what they say to what they actually do.
Today, the world is flooded with cybersecurity news. Whether it’s a headline splashed across the media about your favorite retailer being hit by hackers or your local council falling victim to ransomware, there is no escaping the “cybercrime pandemic.”
Even despite this recent surge in cyberattacks, there are still a worrying number of organizations that don’t see themselves as a target. These organizations have a false sense of security that they are of no value or interest to cybercriminals — they are too small, too unknown or even too secure to be hit.
A New York state mandate that took effect this week, requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated against the deadly coronavirus, has boosted the immunization rates of care providers, to the relief of officials who had worried that the order could lead to mass walkouts and staff shortages.