Pandemic driven business closures, budget cuts and sweeping changes in consumer habits have forced marketers to throw out their playbook,...
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Author: Becca Smith
Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day!
Behind every computer network is a person or a team you may have never met, yet it’s thanks to them...
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Is It the Drug Or Fitbit Making the Difference?
As if clinical researchers and managers didn’t already have enough to worry about, now add activity trackers to the list....
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Investors Are Again Favoring Hedge Funds
After seeing investors move their money out of hedge funds for nine consecutive quarters, Bloomberg says better times for the...
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Why Is Hiring So Difficult?
With unemployment at a historic high, filling jobs shouldn’t be difficult. Yet employers say it’s hard to find qualified people...
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AI Chatbots Could Ease Demand on COVID-19 Hotlines
A solution to overtaxed COVID-19 hotlines could be only a chatbot away. Researchers from the Indiana University Kelley School of...
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Working Virtually Causes Greater Fatigue, but it Also Provides More Flexibility
Feeling like video conferences are taking more out of you than in-person meetings? Turns out you’re right. According to a new...
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The Importance of Confidence for Women Healthcare Leaders
Women may hold three-quarters of all healthcare jobs, yet only 37% of the executives at the nation’s largest hospitals are female. The percentage...
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The Allure of the Freelance Quant
Robert Carver, author and retired executive at quantitative hedge fund AHL, poses this seductive question to quants: “What if you...
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Drug Industry Invests $1 Billion For Antibiotic Development
Before the discovery of antibiotics, tuberculosis was the second most common cause of death in the US. Today, thanks to...
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Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold
With summer promising to be a hot one and workers returning to offices, the perennial battle over the thermostat is about to...
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AI is Creating New Jobs, Changing Others
Long before the novel coronavirus caused a tech hiring slowdown, jobs calling for machine learning or AI skills were a...
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Business Indicators, Staffing Hires Point to an Improving Economy
After falling in the first quarter to the lowest level since 2014, staffing employment came roaring back in the second...
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Banks Seek to Improve Their Senior Level Diversity
The world’s largest banks may have slowed their overall hiring, but responding to #BlackLivesMatter and other pressures to be more...
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Well-Being Initiative Provides Support for Stressed Nurses
Recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic has put an unprecedented mental strain on the nation’s nurses, four leading nursing organizations and...
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IT Hiring Increases as Job Listings Continue to Grow
After slowing due to the COVID-19 shutdown, demand for tech professionals is again on the rise, with job postings increasing...
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Ethical Hackers Wear Computing’s ‘White Hat’
“Ethical hacker” sounds like an oxymoron, but the role of these “white hat” security experts is crucial to keeping computer...
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Wide Scale Testing Beginning for COVID-19 Vaccines
Researchers are making so much progress in developing a vaccine against COVID-19 that the first wide-scale testing could begin in...
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Pandemic Gives Drug Onshoring New Momentum
The shortage of masks, respirators and other medical supplies that accompanied the rise of COVID-19 cases has added momentum to...
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Winning Teams Solve Pandemic Problems in First Nurse Hackathon
Five teams of nurses and technologists are winners for the innovative projects they entered in the first Nurse Hack 4 Health...
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