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The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest. 04/25/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Fellow Freelancers: Don’t Marry Rich, Organize! Don’t marry, organize! This year, with a subgroup of the Freelance Solidarity Project started by Alleen Brown, I’m helping to launch the Freelance Solidarity Challenge. The task is simple: Each time ... 04/25/2024 - 2:20 am | View Link
How US changes to 'noncompete' agreements and overtime pay could affect workers For millions of American workers, the government took two actions this week that could bestow potentially far-reaching benefits ... 04/24/2024 - 2:42 pm | View Link
UPMC to cut about 1,000 jobs WHAT YOU NEED TO K UPMC is cutting about 1,000 jobs, which is approximately 1% of its workforce.A spokesperson said the cuts are systemwide and primarily among non-clinical and administrative ... 04/24/2024 - 8:42 am | View Link
If You Work From Home, Here’s 6 Tips To Create The Perfect WFH Office Whether you have a dedicated home office or a space carved out in the living room, these tips can help to make it stylish, functional, and ergonomic. 04/23/2024 - 4:31 pm | View Link
The ‘Open to Work’ badge on LinkedIn gets a bad rap, say some experts. Here’s how you should be using it in your job search.
After social media manager Jensen Rubinstein was let go from her job in January, she put the green “Open to Work” banner up under her LinkedIn profile photo.
These metaphors can help employees navigate criticisms of DEI jargon and reframe DEI as a tool that builds everyone up rather than tearing some down.
As a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and communications practitioner, I often use metaphors to reframe complex issues. Employing metaphors can create space for empathy, encourage creative problem-solving, and center asset-framing communication.
In South Park Hill, a former college campus is gradually being transformed — and what’s taking shape doesn’t look like a typical redevelopment project in Denver.
In one building on the Mosaic Community Campus on a recent sunny Friday afternoon, DIRT Coffee Bar had just closed after a day of selling cappuccinos and training baristas with intellectual disabilities or neurological conditions.
Starting Wednesday, the electric cooperative United Power will officially cut the cord from Tri-State Generation and Transmission, the multi-state utility that has kept the electrons flowing to the Brighton-based company for about 70 years.
The departure follows years of conflicts between the cooperative and Tri-State over the power supplier’s rates, what critics considered an over-reliance on coal and restrictions on how much power members like United Power could generate on their own.
United Power, Tri-State’s largest member, sued Tri-State over the addition of new members it believed were being used to stack the deck for Tri-State leaders.
Enlarge / Of all the aquatic spiders, the diving bell spider is the only one known to survive almost entirely underwater, using bubbles of air it brings down from the surface. (credit: Oxford Scientific via Getty)
Shrubbery, toolsheds, basements—these are places one might expect to find spiders. But what about the beach?
When David Risher took over as CEO of Lyft about a year ago, the company was losing market share and struggling with morale. Its stock price was approaching an all-time low, down nearly 90% from its IPO high of 2019. One of Risher’s first moves was to cut staff by 26%, affecting hundreds of employees.
Risher, a one time Lyft board member and former Amazon executive, is the first non-founder to lead Lyft.