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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.
States and localities are using economic incentives to entice both new and remote workers to relocate to their small towns and urban areas and to do so on either a short-term or permanent basis. “These incentives augment employer efforts to attract the right…
A survey found that found most employers, 90%, believe it will be somewhat or very challenging to implement the Biden mandate that employers with 100 or more workers require them to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing. Conducted by the…
Last month President Biden launched a plan to address the supply chain crisis that has seen imports and exports stall, resulting in empty store shelves and threatening to blight gift during the upcoming holiday season. On Oct. 13 he announced the effort he…
The online grocery market in the United States generated a total of $8 billion in sales during September, driven by $6.4 billion from the pickup/delivery segment and $1.7 billion from ship-to-home services, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery…
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) released a draft rule that would make the state’s Covid 19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) permanent (for at least two years). The proposed permanent rule does not at this point include a…
States will need to take away license privileges from any professional driver who tests positive for drugs and alcohol sooner under a new rule issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. FMCSA says the rule is needed because too many…
The U.S. industrial market ended the third quarter with record-setting statistics with demand outpacing supply for the third quarter in a row. In fact, the market absorbed 140.7 million square feet (msf) in Q3 2021 -- the most space ever absorbed in a single…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: [vcex_button url="https://acwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ACWI-Advance-11-1-21.pdf" title="Click to Download PDF version" style="flat" align="center" color="blue" size="medium" target="self" rel="none"]Click to…
At the middle of October, your view of the Pacific Ocean along the southern Calfironia coast was blooked by a record 100 cargo ships waiting to enter the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to unload an estimated 800,000 containers. When the container ships…
With the holiday season around the corner, it is notable that heavyweights like Wal-Mart and Amazon started their Black Friday deals – in October. Also noteworthy is the rationale for this: nobody knows when they will be able to reliably source and…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: Dear ACWI Members, In this issue of ACWI Advance we take a closer look at these stories: Biden orders OSHA to focus on heat illnesses, both interior and exterior. Truck driver positive drug tests were up 13% through…
The problem of heat-related illness in the workplace gained fresh prominence when President Biden made a public display of ordering the federal government to create new regulations and launch enforcement actions to address the issue. As a result, on Sept.…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
States and localities are using economic incentives to entice both new and remote workers to relocate to their small towns and urban areas and to do so on either a short-term or permanent basis. “These incentives augment employer efforts to attract the right…
A survey found that found most employers, 90%, believe it will be somewhat or very challenging to implement the Biden mandate that employers with 100 or more workers require them to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing. Conducted by the…
Last month President Biden launched a plan to address the supply chain crisis that has seen imports and exports stall, resulting in empty store shelves and threatening to blight gift during the upcoming holiday season. On Oct. 13 he announced the effort he…
The online grocery market in the United States generated a total of $8 billion in sales during September, driven by $6.4 billion from the pickup/delivery segment and $1.7 billion from ship-to-home services, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery…
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) released a draft rule that would make the state’s Covid 19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) permanent (for at least two years). The proposed permanent rule does not at this point include a…
States will need to take away license privileges from any professional driver who tests positive for drugs and alcohol sooner under a new rule issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. FMCSA says the rule is needed because too many…
The U.S. industrial market ended the third quarter with record-setting statistics with demand outpacing supply for the third quarter in a row. In fact, the market absorbed 140.7 million square feet (msf) in Q3 2021 -- the most space ever absorbed in a single…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: [vcex_button url="https://acwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ACWI-Advance-11-1-21.pdf" title="Click to Download PDF version" style="flat" align="center" color="blue" size="medium" target="self" rel="none"]Click to…
At the middle of October, your view of the Pacific Ocean along the southern Calfironia coast was blooked by a record 100 cargo ships waiting to enter the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to unload an estimated 800,000 containers. When the container ships…
With the holiday season around the corner, it is notable that heavyweights like Wal-Mart and Amazon started their Black Friday deals – in October. Also noteworthy is the rationale for this: nobody knows when they will be able to reliably source and…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: Dear ACWI Members, In this issue of ACWI Advance we take a closer look at these stories: Biden orders OSHA to focus on heat illnesses, both interior and exterior. Truck driver positive drug tests were up 13% through…
The problem of heat-related illness in the workplace gained fresh prominence when President Biden made a public display of ordering the federal government to create new regulations and launch enforcement actions to address the issue. As a result, on Sept.…