Weekly Reports Archive

 SCARE FOR THE WEEK: The back passenger seats of Uber, Lyft & other ride-sharing cars “carry 35,000 times as many germs as the average toilet seat, and 219 times as the average licensed cab, which is required to get regular cleaning”... Continue

AROUND 17% OF THE 800+ JOB CATEGORIES WILL DISAPPEAR WITHIN SEVEN YEARS. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that biggest losers will be workers at the $30K to $50K wage level, including: over half the Respiratory Health Technicians; around a... Continue

“STRATEGIC PLANNING IS A PROCESS, NOT AN EVENT. Generating a comprehensive document only to use it as ‘show & tell,’ then collect dust on a shelf, is a waste of time & money. The Plan should be a ‘living’ document,... Continue

 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHARGE: AI now monitors ‘productivity’ and “automatically generates warnings and terminations without input from supervisors” at Amazon fulfillment centers. At one facility, failure to meet productivity benchmarks (i.e. quotas) based on “proprietary metrics like customer demand and... Continue

SMARTPHONES GET CLUTTERED WITH STUFF WHICH SLOWS THEM DOWN AND WASTES TIME. Some tips on managing your usage more efficiently: (1) Delete apps you don’t or rarely use, especially for services where a website is just as convenient; (2) Launch... Continue