In 2017, touting your company’s sustainability standards and corporate social responsibility isn’t just the province of organic food companies. Today, it’s just good business strategy. Case in point: a 2017 Unilever study found that one in three consumers choose to buy from brands that they believe do social or environmental good. Not only that, but […]
One Wisconsin technology company is making headlines for offering to microchip their employees. Many small businesses rely on standard business technology, considering that each month 50,000 businesses incorporate Office 365 into their operations. But Three Square Market is putting them all to shame. They have become the first company in the U.S. that is offering […]
The City of Yonkers has been given a $300 million renovation budget to upscale its aging public housing. The initiative, enacted by Yonkers’ Municipal Housing Authority, will use the budget to renovate 20 properties. “This project will provide safe, decent, and affordable housing for the more than 10,000 residents in public housing, create hundreds of […]
In March, Utah governor Gary Herbert signed into law the strictest drunk driving limits in the country. Now, members of the state’s hospitality and tourism industries are reacting to the tightening of restrictions with outrage and concern. The bill lowers the blood alcohol limit allowable when operating a motor vehicle to .05%. Prior to this bill, […]
There are an estimated six million car accidents every year in the United States, and that number might be about to get a little higher. By now the intentions of major auto manufacturers to push the consumer market into the next stage of automobiles, self-driving cars, is well known. It has been the dream of […]
Camping is one of America’s favorite past-times, with some 40 million people going on a total of 515 million camping trips in 2010 alone. However, sometimes camping is not an activity that one chooses voluntarily as many homeless individuals in Tacoma City, Washington demonstrated. Many homeless individuals engage in car camping — if they have […]
The digital camera is about to get some help from our friendly friend, the honeybee. Lately, the bee has been making headlines all across the world as honeybee populations disappear, putting a majority of our favorite foods at risk. In 2014 there were an estimated 2.7 million honeybee colonies in the United States, but this […]
Many people rely on their dentists the same way they rely on their primacy care doctors or any other medical professional: to keep them safe. However, one grieving New York family believes one dentist failed to “do no harm” by prescribing opioids to a patient with known substance abuse problems. The surviving relatives of Eva […]
Employee benefits tend to be pretty standard — health insurance, paid vacation, and some sort of retirement fund. But one new CEO is putting all these expectations to shame; he’s offering one benefit that is making many brides and grooms happy. The CEO of subscription service Boxed, Chieh Huang, has offered to cover his employees’ wedding […]
While many industries are facing an increase in layoffs thanks to advancing technology, one industry appears to be ditching technology in favor of human workers. Court reporters are an important part of how our courtrooms work, keeping a verbatim record of the conversations that occur both during, before, and after the trial. Not only that, […]