Gartner HR Poll Finds Two-Thirds of Organizations Are Delaying Workplace Reopening Due to New COVID-19 Variants
Organizations Are Using a Mix of Tactics to Encourage Vaccination A Gartner, Inc. poll of 238 executive leaders on August 24, 2021 revealed that 66% of organizations are delaying reopening their offices due to new COVID-19 variants. “Leaders have been determining if and how to mandate employee COVID-19 vaccinations for the last several months, and […]
Economic Recovery Continues Along a Bumpy Path
IPC releases August 2021 economic outlook report Economic recovery continues along a bumpy path. In this month’s economic outlook report, IPC’s Chief Economist Shawn DuBravac offers five key observations: Global demand remains strong, but we are starting to see some early signs that demand might be slowing. Even with demand slowing, backorders remain high and […]
What’s the SCOOP – Is Climate Change the Real Crisis?
For the last eighteen months I have used the word crisis in the first sentence of almost every article I have written. Before the pandemic ‘crisis’ we worried about the ‘crisis’ caused by the trade war between China and the US, and now we’re in a supply chain ‘crisis’ brought about by component shortages. But while we talk about all these challenges, are we missing the elephant in the room? Are we missing the biggest crisis of all time, the existential crisis that is climate change?