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Non-Billable Time Kills Businesses! but there is a solution.
Inconsistency will kill a business. Underutilized departments are the enemy of efficiency and product output. It may be nigh...
Should I Become an Independent Contractor?
The real question you’re looking for when you’re asking whether you want to be an independent contractor or a traditional...
The Value of Online Marketplace
The world we inhabit now is increasingly lived online, in digital spaces and through digital means. Online marketplaces evolved...
Utopian Model for Labor and Business
The Utopian Model for Professional Labor and Business: Utopia, adjective; Modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything...
What is Automate America?
The best thing that has ever happened for business and professional labor! I stand behind that statement 100% and you will also...
Increased artificial intelligence use in the hiring process
It seems long gone are the days of human resource professionals pouring over hundreds of resumes to find the right candidate for...
Contract work seeing rise in workforce
It used to be that freelance, or contract work, consisted only of people doing the mundane tasks that regular, full-time...
Tablets on the manufacturing floor getting a bad rap?
Okay, we can all agree that we live in a smartphone age. Very few of us can live without our smart device right next to us. We...
Dysfunctional leadership and its adverse impact on manufacturing
I was looking back through a paper I wrote for one of my master’s classes in communication and leadership specifically on...
Automation can actually make our jobs better, not get rid of them
In the industrial automation workplace, one of the biggest fears is that the automation being adapted will be used to drive out...