Category: WORKPLACE SAFETY
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WORKPLACE SAFETY 4 things workers need from their companies right now
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs). Follow her on Twitter @RosabethKanter. The opinions e…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Companies are making their own safety rules as the federal government stands aside
New York (CNN Business)America’s grocery stores, retail chains and warehouses staying open during the coronavirus crisis can’t seem to agree on how exactly to keep their millions of workers safe at the height of a pandemic. Walmart(WMT) and Amazon(AMZN) anno…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Stores are scrambling to get masks for their workers. It’s no easy task
New York (CNN Business)Aside from health care workers, no one is more exposed to coronavirus than the workers continuing to show up to grocery stores and warehouses to ensure people have access to essential goods. So when the US government recommended Friday…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Virology in the time of coronavirus: What a difference a month makes — and the most important questions we still need to answer
(CNN)A month ago, I detailed 19 critical gaps in our knowledge of how we can best respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. This past month, we have learned an amazing amount and have made progress answering 13 of these important questions. We urgently need answers t…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Learn new skills with these online courses
You certainly don’t have to learn new skills with your added time at home these days, but if you’re looking to pick up or refine hobbies be it cooking a super tasty beef wellington or how to write the next best-selling novel online learning is your best bet. …
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Congress cannot afford to shut down during this crisis
David B. Cohen is a professor of political science and assistant director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at The University of Akron. Follow him on Twitter @POTUSProf. Taylor J. Swift is a policy analyst for Demand Progress, focusing on Cong…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Postal Service forced to keep working despite shortages of cash and protection
(CNN)United States Postal Service workers, who are still delivering and sorting mail at distribution centers around the country even as millions of Americans telecommute, are worried that they may not have the protection — or even the funding — they will ne…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY The small digital network making free food deliveries to vulnerable neighbors in New York
New York (CNN)As more and more of the world falls under coronavirus shutdown, many Americans are turning to the internet for daily needs: ordering groceries and household necessities through delivery services like FreshDirect, Amazon, Peapod and even restaura…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Millions of Americans are suddenly working from home. That’s a huge security risk
Washington (CNN)The dramatic expansion of teleworking by US schools, businesses and government agencies in response to the coronavirus is raising fresh questions about the capacity and security of the tools many Americans use to connect to vital workplace sys…
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WORKPLACE SAFETY Our health system is struggling to fight coronavirus. Med students could help
Nathan Hollister is a third-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Rebecca Allen is a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The opinion…