Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes tried everything from all-hands meetings to suggestion boxes before turning to iPhone video.
Townhall meetings. Ask-me-anything sessions. The old-fashioned suggestion box. CEOs have lots of options for keeping in touch with their ever-growing ranks of employees. The trouble is that most of them aren’t that great.
These companies have found a way to keep their employees engaged instead of dragging in the afternoons, and it doesn’t involve caffeine.
If your mind starts to wander and you could really use a nap or a candy bar around 2 p.m., you’re not alone. The afternoon slump is real, and it’s your body’s response to a drop in your blood-sugar levels as well as its natural circadian rhythm. In fact, one of our strongest biological urges to sleep comes between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., according to the National Sleep Foundation.
Layoffs. Protests. Bankruptcy. Restructuring. Here’s how Paula Schneider is attempting to lead this infamous L.A. basics brand forward.
Everything seems normal as we approach American Apparel’s seven-story factory and corporate headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. I’m riding shotgun next to CEO Paula Schneider in her slightly worn electric Ford Fusion, ’80s music jamming quietly from the speakers. We park and enter the light and orderly American Apparel shop on the ground floor. As Schneider shows off some recent display changes, I notice that we’re the only ones in the store but don’t think much of it—it’s still only about 10:30 a.m. on a Friday, and the building isn’t located on a high-traffic street.
Invasion!, a new short film by VR animation company Baobab Studios, puts you right in the middle of the lagomorphic action.
Bunnies are cute. But a new short film by virtual reality animation company Baobab Studios reveals that animated bunnies who save you from an alien attack in virtual reality are even cuter.
Sesame Street and smart thermometer company Kinsa found a way to make taking your kid’s temperature more fun—for both of you.
For a parent, there is nothing worse than finding out your kid isn’t feeling well—except, perhaps, having to take their temperature.
Researchers are testing mobile apps that analyze patients’ activity to measure mental health.
An emotional crisis doesn’t surface only in a therapy appointment. For those suffering depression, PTSD, or other mental health challenges, a breakdown can be a slow burn, developing over days or weeks in between doctor visits. Delay in treatment can have lasting consequences.
The free market doesn’t exist. The market is governed by many rules, almost of all which don’t benefit workers. But people made the rules, and people can change them.
In his book Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich provides an outstanding guide to many of the factors that prevent the possibility of a truly free market. He writes:
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