Monday, December 9, 2024

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Empower’s new study found that Americans spend 2.5 hours a day, or 873 hours per year, modern-day window shopping and gazing at dream purchases.

Are you dreamscrolling? Three ways to gain control

Beth Martin may be a designer in Charleston, South Carolina, but, in her head, she is in the south of France, touring a 1700s...
With the rhetoric around “return-to-office” finally behind us, it’s clear that 2024 will be another watershed year in which how we engage with work environments is redefined again. As CEO of a leading proptech company, I connect with C-level executives and workplace experts daily, discussing the forces that will continue to reshape the world of work in 2024.

Seven trends reshaping the workplace

Where and how we work has changed a lot in the past several years. Collectively, we’ve experienced some of the most significant and far-reaching changes...
There’s no doubt that we are more distracted than ever in our age of screens. Everything from the latest news on social media to our favorite movie to online shopping is only a few clicks away.

Creating habits in an age of distraction

There’s no doubt that we are more distracted than ever in our age of screens. Everything from the latest news on social media to...
The report made a case for more employment programs and apprenticeships and expanding access to community college. “Targeting structural barriers that impact young adults—such as mental health, discrimination, the criminal justice system and lack of access to child care and transportation— could improve employment outcomes."

Increasing numbers of Gen Z have no income

An increasing number of young adults ages 18-24 are not working and have no income, according to a recent study. The research by the...

Work from home expected to explode again in 2023

The number of remote jobs is growing, and 25 percent of professional, high-paying jobs will be remote by the end of 2022, according to...

Demographic shifts in the workforce will make winners and losers

By 2030, approximately 693 million baby boomers will have reached retirement age. Meanwhile, nearly twice as many members of Generation Z—1.3 billion—will join the...

When no one retires

Before our eyes, the world is undergoing a massive demographic transformation. In many countries, the population is getting old. Very old. Globally, the number...

Help wanted

The labor market continues to tighten as unemployment wobbled near a 45-year low last week leaving unemployment at the lowest level since January 1973. Last...

A new blueprint for America’s construction trades

It’s been weeks since Hurricane Harvey devastated the city of Houston and Southeast Texas. Damage estimates go up to $190 billion. The cleanup has...

Coming to America

Immigration has become an increasingly prevalent and often polarizing topic within policy discussions, and its effect on the apartment industry cannot be understated. Immigrants...

Pieces of history

The boot has been booted, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out, and the thimble got the thumbs down in the latest version of the...

Rebuilding the labor force for multifamily

Several days earlier, the writer, narrator, producer, actor and former host of the popular television show Dirty Jobs delivered the same message to a...

Are there enough shovel-ready workers?

In a 9/15 campaign speech at the New York Economic Club, he predicted that his plan would increase employment by 25 million new jobs...

Raising minimum wage hurts workforce

The Senate Budget Committee’s blog says, “Top economists are backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on establishing a $15 an hour minimum wage.” It lists the...

The elusive age of reason

Four in 10 U.S. college students graduate without the complex reasoning skills to manage white-collar work, according to the results of a test of...

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