Hospitals Accelerate Hiring, Bolster Benefits a Year After Pandemic Lockdowns
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 […]
Benjamin Franklin’s Fight Against Smallpox: Colonies Were Divided Over Inoculation, But He Championed Science to Skeptics
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 […]
Why Pokemon Cards Went Crazy During The Pandemic
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 […]
Billionaire Wealth Growth During Covid and the Top Pandemic Profiteers
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 […]
CES 2021: Covid-19 Pandemic Sent Medical Technology into Warp Speed
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 […]
The Future Of Work – What Comes After The Pandemic?
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 backlogs, enabling video and collaboration services to maintain employee productivity.