Receiving honest feedback from your employees can be hard, so leadership consultant Dina Smith suggests bosses work on how they communicate in order to foster confidentiality and trust. By calling yourself out on weaknesses first, team members will feel more comfortable telling you what you can do better, says Smith.

In stressful times, taking care of yourself and your career can be difficult, but there are steps to take to work on it, according to business coach Laura Browne. Show value to your boss by over-communicating and acknowledging progress on a project; plan for the future by looking for the opportunities in every problem; and stay positive.

Freelance opportunities will continue even as the economy loosens up, with about half of all hiring managers saying they will continue using these contract workers, according to a survey from freelance platform Upwork. Most opportunities will be in software development, web analytics, motion graphic design and internet marketing, according to the survey.

New unemployment claims topped 1.5 million in the United States last week, according to a Labor Department report, and 700,000 new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims were submitted. These numbers are down from previous weeks, but the nation is still experiencing its highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression, and the job market is not expected to bounce back any time soon, say economists.

Connecticut has partnered with jobs site Indeed to provide a portal called CT Back to Work Initiative in hopes of getting the more than 600,000 unemployed workers in the state back to work. The program, the first in the country, will also include online job fairs and training.

The idea of being able to immediately shop for the things you see on TV has been around for a long time, but now technology has reached a point where seamless transactions could become standard options on streaming video services. Will Amazon add this to its Prime Video?