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The Work-Life Balance 2.0

The Work-Life Balance 2.0

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We haven’t seen this issue getting much attention lately, but things have changed since the lockdowns. It was a time when isolation became the New Normal, with people working from home; at least the concept of the metaverse rising in the patois; and like Google, Zoom became a verb.

Did the younger generations, especially those who were coming of age during the time of isolation, withdraw into the metaverse? There’s no doubt that the space is alive and well and growing and expected to reach 1.4 billion users in just seven years, with gaming and ecommerce being the most popular sectors to date.

As for it becoming the new workplace, hold on there, baba louie. Read More...

The 2021 Then & Now List

The 2021 Then & Now List

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2020 was a year that changed almost everything. Brick and mortars’ footprint got a lot smaller as we embraced online shopping. Not necessarily by choice: the former were shut down and/or driven out of business, especially SMBs.

The CDC admitted that deaths from seasonal flu, pneumonia and even heart attacks were included in the Covid numbers, thus inflating the actual deadliness of this flu, yet Big Media ignored these reports, which more or less made fear porn arguably the real superspreader – of click rates and note to self: according to the National Review, Stats Hold a Surprise: Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on COVID-19 Spread.

Working remotely became de rigueur, but with K-12 being ‘taught’ remotely, this definitely created problems in River City. On many levels, what with parents working from home, too – or attempting to. Can young children truly learn this way? There is a difference between ‘teaching’ and ‘learning.’ If remote education is going to be the so-called new normal, the basic tenets of effective remote learning need to be seriously re-examined, or the teacher is simply another talking head. Read More...