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Category Archives: Employment
Navigating The New Standards of Beauty; Lessons From Victoria’s Secret
The highest-earning salespeople are often the most attractive. It’s a difficult metric to quantify but study after study confirms the relationship between appearance and income. Are attractive people drawn to positions where good looks earn them more money? Perhaps these … Continue reading
Will The UAW Strike Change The Auto Industry?
After a month, it looks like the United Auto Worker’s Union (UAW) strike of 2019 will soon be over. It has been a strange strike. There was a time when even the rumor of an auto strike caused the US … Continue reading
Posted in Backup Plans, cars, Common Sense Contracting, Employment, Expectations and Rewards
Tagged auto, Automobile, autonomy, cars, detroit, Electric Vehicles, selfdriving
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The Not So Little Truck That Could!
2020 is expected to be the year of the electric vehicle, a turning point where EVs become a mainstream option for consumers. Every car company has announced an electric or electric hybrid option for 2020. With a simpler engine, far … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Employment, Environment, Expectations and Rewards, Unique Ideas
Tagged cars, coal, Electric Vehicles, EV, logistics, transportation, trucks
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The Big Payoff: IDD Adult Employment
America is THE Capitalist nation. That’s why not just American citizens, but our Government, really needs to understand some basic Capitalist ideas. Like “Return on Investment” (ROI). For example, President Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cut was supposed to raise wages and pay for … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Decision Making, Employment, Improvement, Learning and Development
Tagged autism, Disability, employment, IDD, unemployment
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Last Days Of The American Cowboy
Every culture has a mythology. It tells us about how we see ourselves. For example, America has two distinctly different worlds of work. On the one hand, we have highly educated and highly paid professionals… lawyers, doctors, financial experts, consultants. … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Decision Making, Delivering Services, Employment, Robots, Uncategorized
Tagged Big Rigs, CB radio, logistics, long haul, trucking, work
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Is The Future Of Robotics… Just A Lot Of Garbage?
By now it’s common knowledge, robots are on the rise. There are robot checkouts in some stores, industrial robots in factories, and warehouse robots that ensure the prompt delivery of your Amazon orders. When the bugs are worked out in … Continue reading
Posted in Delivering Services, Employment, Improvement, Robots, Unique Ideas
Tagged employment, recycle, Robots, technology, trash
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Project Manager: The Best New Career For Operation Managers?
I recently read an article by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, “Re-Humanising Work and Organizations Through Projects“. Antonio raises an interesting point. Typical positions in operation have changed. Automation and management systems have taken over. Operations managers once had great latitude and followed their instincts, … Continue reading
New Taxi War As UBER Gets Regulated
Cars for hire and nothing new. Taxi’s… hacks, jitneys, limousines, hansome cabs… existed before the first automobile. As soon as the automobile did arrive in the early 20th century, there was an explosion of new car services. The early 21st … Continue reading
Posted in cars, Employment, Small Business
Tagged cars, new york, regulations, taxi, uber
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Evolution of The Light Bulb and The Jobless Future
Human beings use technology. Our extensive use of technology is what defines being human. Humanity only has a written history of our early life because we invented the technology of writing. That written history often speaks about the rise and … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Decision Making, Employment, Improvement, Uncategorized, Unique Ideas
Tagged employment, Future, technology, unemployment, work
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Despite Today’s Great Employment, The Future is Jobless
The Federal employment statistics for America have arrived for June of 2018 and they are spectacular! 218,000 new jobs were created, unemployment is low and holding at 4%, but unemployment isn’t so low that inflation is rising, and wages are … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Employment, Uncategorized
Tagged economy, employment, jobless, jobs, salary
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