Aon plc reports that 40 percent of hospitals surveyed have accelerated hiring to meet surging demand in medical services following COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, according to the firm's 16th annual Benefits Survey of Hospitals released today.
Another 36 percent plan for normal hiring and 24 percent are being cautious, delaying, or...
Mark Canada, Indiana University Kokomo and Christian Chauret, Indiana University Kokomo
Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today’s world, similarly devastated by a virus and...
By Clive Henry
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed crazy developments in untraditional investments. Bitcoin surged above $60k for the first time in its history. ‘The First 5000 Days’ NFT sold for an eye-watering $69.3m. But perhaps the most interesting was the sale of a single Pokemon card for $399k.
If you’ve been...
For the past year, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) have tracked the wealth growth of America’s billionaires since March 18, 2020, the rough beginning of the pandemic. This report summarizes the extraordinary growth in wealth of those now 657 billionaires based on real-time data from Forbes...
It's tough to say there can be any benefit to a pandemic that has strewn a path of destruction across the globe. But, there is at least one – the launch of medical technology years into the future.
What was believed to be the technology of five years down the road, has overnight become the technology of today. Telemedicine has grown...
COVID-19 changed the world rapidly and so did the corporate work environment. Companies of all sizes and segment were forced to adapt and support hundreds of thousands of employees to work remotely. Companies were left to scramble to add more bandwidth at the data centers, call paths to keep contact centers from experiencing massive...