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Working where you live has become, if not yet the norm, certainly a much more common practice since the COVID pandemic. Yet even as that trend becomes rooted – PwC found employees far from eager to return to an office – a new one may be emerging. -
Besides all the accounting skills they learned in school, tomorrow’s CFO will need to have sharp business acumen. As Workday finance writer Steve Dunne observes, “Once considered a numbers-only role, finance is now balancing traditional responsibilities with the growing demand for data-driven analysis and insights, risk -
The world may be lauding healthcare workers as heroes, but the professionals themselves are exhausted, worn down physically and emotionally by their efforts to treat the sick and stem the COVID pandemic. “The pandemic has had a terrific strain on nurses,” Dr. Ernest Grant, president -
Family physicians are the most recruited of all doctors. The demand for these family practitioners is expected to grow by 10%, second only to psychiatrists. Yet those who practice family medicine have seen their average pay decrease, making these doctors among the lowest paid of -
Developers skilled in open-source cloud technologies get jobs faster and command higher salaries, according to a survey of tech professionals from IBM. “Respondents associate open source technologies with higher wages, more job opportunities, and more professional opportunities,” says IBM in The Value of Open Source in -
Human resources professionals looking to go international should set their sights horizontally, says HR career columnist Martin Yate. In his column for the Society for Human Resources Management, he recently addressed a question about job-searching internationally. It will take time and hard work, he counseled, but said -
It is ethically appropriate to pay volunteers who are intentionally infected with the COVID virus as part of clinical research, says an international panel of experts. In a report published in the American Journal of Bioethics, the group of ethicists, lawyers, academics, laymen and others from the -
Accountants may want to stock up on extra strength aspirin this tax season because, in the words of the chief tax officer at Jackson Hewitt, it will be “one for the ages.” In an interview with Accounting Today, Mark Steber ticked off the issues tax accountants must -
Optimism is growing that the worst of the pandemic business retrenchment is over and that job growth may be just around the corner. The Conference Board last week said its Employment Trends Index increased in January for the ninth consecutive month. At the same time, Chief Executive released its
