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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.

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Employers Can Help Abuse Victims

One effect of the COVID-19 pandemic is that stay-at-home orders resulted in a marked increase in domestic violence worldwide, note David Gartenberg and Adam Joshua Fiss, attorneys with the law firm of Littler Mendelson. Reports also have proliferated…

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Covid Hurts AV Tech Progress

Although many fleets have announceed their commitments to acquire alternative fuel vehicles and conduct autonomous vehicle test projects, the Coronavirus pandemic has put a crimp in the development of AV technologies. Several automotive companies postponed…

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Managers Cause Employee Stress

A survey conducted recently by the Society for Human Resource Management supports the old workplace adage that employees leave managers – not companies. The study found that 84% of U.S. workers believe poorly trained managers create a lot of unnecessary work…

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Productivity Hurt By Cell Phones

A recent survey found that distractions caused by individual digital devices in the workplace have a detrimental effect on productivity. The nationwide poll of more than a thousand employees this spring was conducted by Screen Education, EMI Research…

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STB Confronts Rail Dominance

The Surface Transportation Board released new regulations aimed at dealing with railroad market dominance in rate reasonableness proceedings. “The final rule provides an option for simplifying the market dominance inquiry which otherwise can be costly and…

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CAB Forecasts Strong Recovery

The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council, was up by 2.5% in August on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following a 3% gain in July. However. on a year-over-year (Y/Y) basis, the…

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Ecommerce Pushes DC Growth

The movement of goods ordered online and delivered to their final destination will continue to be a key driver of the industrial real estate market, according to commercial real estate services giant Colliers International. The economic turbulence created by…

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CAB Points to Economic Recovery

The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council, rose 2.7% in July on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following a 0.1% gain in June. The unadjusted data show a 1.3% gain in July following a…

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Covid-19 Drives Automation Interest

More than half of U.S. companies are now open to invest in automation to survive changing market conditions created by the Covid-19 pandemic, a Honeywell Intelligrated study finds. The company’s 2020 Automation Investment Study reveals that the ecommerce…

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JLL Says the Office Is Here to Stay

There has been a lot of talk about how working from home is gaining ground as the favored mode of office work in the wake of Coronavirus, but commercial real estate giant JLL isn’t buying it. The company asserts that the physical office will maintain its…