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Between Christmas and New Year’s, my family took a six-hour drive to Vermont. I drove; my wife and two children sat in the back seat. Our children are five and two—too old to be hypnotized by a rattle or a fidget spinner, too young to entertain themselves—so a six-hour drive amounted to an hour of …

If HR doesn’t address the mental health of employees and offer as much assistance as possible, that mass exodus will continue. “Wellbeing is a critical component of our evolving culture and a cornerstone in overall colleague engagement,” Peter Church, chief people officer at Point32Health, a Canton, MA-based health insurance provider, told HRD. “Our focus has …

My dad rang me recently with a technical problem. My dad is the only person in the world who would choose to ring me with a technical problem. I love helping him with his technical problems. This might surprise you, because, as you saw in my last column, I hate technology. I’m truly hopeless with …

After attending school virtually or semi-virtually for the past year, students in communities across Wisconsin said they found ways to cope with being away from teachers and friends but looked forward to getting back to regular in-person classes. Students also spoke in favor of more mental health services and mental health literacy. Feedback from 160 middle …

In denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks it can intimidate governments. If it keeps doing this, it will ultimately lose customers, and that’s the last thing Facebook wants. Perhaps you’re already considering breaking up with Facebook, whether in reaction to the …

CLEVELAND — The future is now, and it’s being built right here in Cleveland. On August 24, 2020, a Case Western Reserve University Student picked up a banana, held it in his hand, and truly felt the banana in his grasp. The thing is, that banana was 2,300 miles away, in a robotics lab at …

Stacey Abrams, the founder of Fair Fight, said Sunday that Democrats feel a “great deal of urgency” around Georgia’s two runoff elections on Tuesday, which will determine the balance of power in the Senate just as President-elect Joe Biden takes office. “We did very well in vote by mail, we did very well in early …

Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller ordered the Pentagon to cancel meetings with the Biden transition team, Axios reported Friday, revealing that a Pentagon official said that staff involved in the transition felt “overwhelmed.” The start of the transition was delayed by election disputes, limiting the time to complete necessary tasks. A defense official clarified …

At the end of another shift, in a week in which she’ll work more than 80 hours, Katrina Doyle walked into the patient’s room to clean. She’s been at this, in varying degrees of intensity, for nine months, a stretch that includes her own bout with COVID. Earlier that day, Katrina had a frank conversation …