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Daily Archives: May 13, 2020

Emtrain Workplace Culture Report

Emtrain’s Workplace Culture Report 2020 identifies the root causes of workplace culture failures. The Workplace Culture Diagnostic employs millions of data points to establish a threshold for unhealthy workplace norms. Companies can benchmark their own organizational health against other companies across the country…Giving companies the Confidence to Act – This report provides brand new insights on workplace culture problems. Emtrain’s diagnostic approach enables workplace culture experts, senior leadership, and employees to identify issues, change behaviors and solve problems. Emtrain launched a new type of online training that embeds dialogue-based research tools within the learner experience with the clear goal: help the learner and their organization with behavior change, informed by real data on the situational dynamics that lead to culture problems.

Emtrain’s Workplace Culture Report 2020 will:

  1. Shine a spotlight on the situational dynamics at the root of culture-failures
  2. Illuminate six key indicators and how they manifest themselves in organizations today
  3. Provide a diagnostic framework to understand what influences healthy workplace culture
  4. Quantify company performance across a Workplace Culture Diagnostic Benchmark…”

A Complete List of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Scams

Self – “As anxiety around coronavirus increases, more scammers are taking advantage. While scams can happen any time, many companies are now preying on people’s fear about contracting COVID-19 and the financial uncertainty due to job and income loss caused by the virus, among others. Here’s what you need to know to help protect yourself… Continue Reading

Here’s Who Just Voted to Let the FBI Seize Your Online Search History Without a Warrant

Gizmodo – “A bipartisan amendment that would have prohibited law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, from obtaining the web browsing and internet search histories of Americans without a warrant failed to pass in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday by a single vote. Twenty-seven Republicans and 10 Democrats voted against the amendment to H.R. 6172,… Continue Reading

What it Means to be a Library During COVID-19

Internet Archive Blogs: “Library directors and staff are facing incredible challenges in meeting their community’s needs during this unprecedented time of library closure. As a recent article by NISO Director of Content, Jill O’Neill, points out “[o]ne take-away from this global pandemic might be the humble recognition that there are existing needs in the marketplace… Continue Reading

Washington Post Online Counter – Trump Death Clock

Trump Death Clock 50,645 [All data in this resource is dynamic] Estimated U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Due To POTUS Inaction “In January 2020, the Trump administration was advised that immediate action was required to stop the spread of COVID-19. According to NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, “there was a lot of pushback” to this advice. President… Continue Reading

Preventing a Parallel Pandemic A National Strategy to Protect Clinicians’ Well-Being

Victor J. Dzau et al., Preventing a Parallel Pandemic — A National Strategy to Protect Clinicians’ Well-Being, New England J. Med. (May 13, 2020), DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2011027. “The Covid-19 pandemic, which had killed more than 60,000 Americans by May 1, has been compared with Pearl Harbor and September 11 — cataclysmic events that left indelible imprints… Continue Reading

As States Seek COVID Detectives, Librarians Among The Candidates

KUNM – “Depending on the estimate, the U.S. needs between 100,000 and 300,000 contact tracers to help fight COVID-19. Some say these new jobs could be an opportunity for some of the millions of Americans who’ve been laid off or furloughed. Tair Kiphibane manages the contact tracing operation for Salt Lake County, Utah. She started… Continue Reading

AP Exclusive: CDC guidance more restrictive than White House

AP – “Advice from the top U.S. disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions during the coronavirus pandemic was more detailed and restrictive than the plan released by the White House last month. The guidance, which was shelved by Trump administration officials, also offered recommendations to help communities decide when to… Continue Reading

Calvin and Hobbes and quarantine

Polygon – Bill Watterson didn’t predict the current world, but he prepared us for it: “When I think of Calvin, that glorious little menace, I first remember the depth of his imagination. His was an external life born explicitly of the internal: distant planets, bed monsters, mutant snowscapes, gravity-defying wagon rides, crass Transmogrifications, and of… Continue Reading