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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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Logistics For Your Business

Strategy Driven

Working out how to get your products from the manufacturers, to the storage, and then from that warehouse to the customer. Setting up your website, working on getting finances sorted, they are all part and parcel of a startup too. Fast Company, March 2001. And when we go into a shop, we expect the products to be on the shelves.

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STUDY: Less Negative Spillover of Paid Parental Leave than Hyped

HR Digest

The data was collected from 2001 to 2013. There are three states, California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, which offer paid family leave and finance it through payroll taxes that pay into the states’ existing temporary disability insurance programs.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 3: The Dark Side of Bootstrapping

Strategy Driven

Since I had never manufactured and shipped my own product before, I underestimated the continuous cash drain from ongoing production and distribution. If we had planned properly, we would have raised enough financing to see us through the gestation period of a national publication. USI needed money to fund its own growth.

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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Tyranny of Metrics

Deming Institute

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Under McNamara, the armed forces sought to meet productivity targets of bombing sorties, shells fired and body counts.

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spanish flu). Implement the strategy with empathy and care.