THE THREAT IS REAL Cybercriminals have the advantage   Businesses are faced with a continually evolving enemy: cybercriminals. While you have to plug and re-plug every possible hole in your security wall, day after day, cybercriminals only need to break through once. The digital landscape is growing every day. While you pursue efficiency and productivity by adopting the Internet of Things (IoT) and AI, your enemy sees them as just another entry point for cyberattacks.   What might these attacks look like?   Here is a look at some of the most egregious data breaches reported so far in 2024.   Tencent In August 2024, a hacker...

Time-off Wasn't Always a Thing.   According to an article in History.com, at the turn of the 20th century, workers got very little time off. A 1898 Massachusetts labor bulletin tracking the wages and hours of domestic workers in the Commonwealth documented that the average domestic cook worked between 78 and 83 hours a week at about 9 cents an hour. They could usually count on having Sunday off, and a lucky few may have been granted a half-day on Saturday.   Male factory workers had mostly similar work weeks, while state law only allowed women and children to work a maximum of 58...

Invisible Workplace Stressors Caregiving – An Invisible Workplace Stressor   What would you do if you found out that a sizable portion of your workforce is so stressed, day after day, that they could barely function?   First, you’d probably want to know why and what you could change in your business to fix it. That’s admirable. But, inaccurate. The stressors are not originating in the workplace. There’re spilling over from outside.   Childcare   Of the one-third of the workforce with children under 18, 41% admit that it severely hampers their job performance.   Although most companies acknowledge the childcare problems facing a significant portion of their workforce, a recent report...

The latest jobs report revealed that U.S. employers added 206,000 jobs in June. The good news is that although interest rates are still high, the American economy is still jugging along nicely. The bad news, if we can call it that, is that the June job growth was down from the prior month (218,000). The economy is still growing, but slower.   As reported by the Associated Press (and published in Inc.) “Economists been repeatedly predicting that the job market would lose momentum in the face of high interest rates engineered by the Fed, only to see the hiring gains show unexpected...

There are now five generations working together. It's causing problems we've never seen before.