Offering a new or improved benefits package is a time proven way to attract new employees and retain existing ones. After all, who wouldn’t want a dental insurance plan that is 75% paid by his or her employer? Or, perhaps, a 401K plan with a 50% company match, up to...
Commitment culture companies, where every employee is part of the family . . . until he/she is written out of the will. By Zoom, no less. Take the case of AirBnb, whose founders frequently preached about building a business that valued people, trust and social goals,...
Barter, a system of exchanging goods and services for other goods and services, has been around since 6000 BC or thereabouts. While largely overlooked in these days of formal monetary systems, bartering has outlived countless conflicts, epidemics, Acts of God and,...
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way the world does business. Restaurants, shopping malls, mass transportation and sporting events, to name just a few, will differ from what we remember. Some will cease operating entirely. Let us hope that industry trade shows...
The men’s business suit died a few days ago. In hard pressed cities like Boston and New York suits were “passing” quickly, two and three pieces at a time. And, as was the case with so many fatalities during these button-downed times of quarantine, nobody was there to...
