Too many meetings are wasted by excessive talking because people aren't prepared, are having the right conversation at the wrong time, or are uncomfortable with silence, writes Laurie Cure, CEO of Innovative Connections. "While bottom-lining is sometimes referred to as being brief in your communication, I prefer to think of it as zeroing in on your key points quickly," she writes.
The pandemic has affected retirement plans for millions of people, according to the Census Bureau. The bureau says 1.4 million people age 55 or older will work longer as a result of the pandemic, while more than 3.1 million people in the same age cohort will claim Social Security benefits earlier than when they had expected.
Technological advancements will soon allow people to easily make fake but realistic videos with AI tools, such as a job candidate at a public protest, which will create challenges for HR, writes Technically Media CEO Chris Wink. "An HR pro friend of mine told me the first lesson from the rise of deepfakes is that hiring managers will have to learn to pause," Wink writes.
With the US adding 916,000 jobs in February, experts say that again requiring job searches for unemployment benefits will help bring people back to work. Recent states that reinstated the proof of a job search include North Carolina, South Carolina, Nevada and Idaho, joining 19 other states.
The US had 268,000 new job openings in February, bringing the total number of open jobs to about 7.4 million, which is the highest figure since January 2019, according to the Labor Department.
One third of millennials intend to seek a new job when the pandemic ends, and 26% of all employees will look to change jobs, with 80% anxious about career growth, according to a Pulse of the American Worker Survey from Prudential. The Labor Department found that 3.4 million US employees left their jobs in February and almost 50% of the employees surveyed by Prudential who intend to leave their jobs say they'd give their employer a grade "C" or lower for their workplace culture efforts during the pandemic.
A walrus nicknamed Wally recently traveled thousands of miles from his home in the Arctic, likely asleep on an iceberg, and arrived in Ireland. He then went another 280 miles to Wales and has been moving between boats and attracting many on-lookers, but experts warn that it's best to leave him alone. No word yet on how he'll find his way back home.
SmartBrief editor Sean McMahon kicks off a podcast series in the renewable energy sector by speaking with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick.
"The more efficient our electricity markets that we oversee are, the more efficient they are, and the more barriers that we essentially reduce for newer technologies, such as wind or solar or energy storage and other clean energy technologies," says Glick. "The better those markets will work, the better that will be in terms of people being able to choose electricity generation technologies that are zero emissions or close to zero emissions."
