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Developing an Effective Employee Survey

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It’s imperative that you have a sense of how your employees are feeling. In other words, you need to know whether they’re happy. If they aren’t, you certainly want to make that determination before the organization’s performance is deleteriously affected. And what better way to do so than by going directly to the people? An employee survey is in order here, but how you craft it and how to measure employee engagement is the key. So, here’s what you should know about developing an effective employee survey – and more.

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Congestion Pricing is Coming to New York City With Disastrous Implications

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New York NY, congestion pricing is coming to New York City . After 9 years of failed leadership and a botch COVID response, suffering from an onslaught of “remote work ” options, an extremely high cost of living and insane taxes this may be the final nail in the coffin .

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Apple Employee Group Claims Compelling Reasons Why many Employees should be able to Continue to Work from Home

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Ridgewood NJ, some Apple employees have formed an internal advocacy group called Apple Together to push back against the company’s return-to-office plans. The group is collecting signatures for a petition that claims Apple’s mandate ignores compelling reasons for why many employees should be able to continue to work from home. Apple Together is advocating for a system where individual employees can talk with their direct managers to decide expectations on a case-by-case basis. The petition is still connecting signatures and has not yet been formally sent to Apple’s senior leadership.

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Google Searches for “remote crypto jobs” increase 614% in a year

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Ridgewood NJ, Since the pandemic we have seen a growing interest in remote jobs and preferences in working from home – particular among employees in the tech industry.

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Virtual Product and Fashion Catalog Photography

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It is apparent that online shopping is all the craze these days with COVID hanging around.  Now is the time to focus on image creation to increase sales. Here at ArtChick Photo Studio, we provide virtual shoots for our clients.  It’s really simple – all you need to do is ship your products to our studio and we take care of the rest.

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Remote work, the death of Personal Privacy and the Spread of the Surveillance State

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Ridgewood NJ, the COVID pandemic saw the raise of “remote work” . Remote work, also called telecommuting, distance working, telework, teleworking, working from home, mobile work, remote job, work from anywhere, hybrid work and flexible workplace, is a work arrangement in which employees do not commute to a central place of work, such as an office building, warehouse, or store.

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IMF Global Financial Stability Report warns Covid-19’s lingering impact is fading investor optimism

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Washington DC, the IMF is warning in its latest Global Financial Stability Report that Covid-19’s lingering impact is fading optimism among investors, which could lead to financial tightening in the medium term, Tuesday (October 12).

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I Quit : The “Great Resignation” Shows No Sign of Ending Any Time Soon

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Ridgewood NJ, the September jobs report came in well below expectation with payrolls only  increasing by only 194,000 . Currently close to three-quarters of workers are actively thinking about quitting their job, according to a survey by job search site Joblist. The job site just released its third quarter report about the state of the US labor market, surveying over 26,000 respondents about things like how tough they feel the job market is, whether they have already quit, and their reasons behind quitting their jobs. One survey in particular included asking about 3,000 respondents if they’re actively thinking about leaving their job.

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UPDATE: Westwood and Other Pascack Valley Towns Seek to Understand the Impact of the Pandemic on Local Economies

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Westwood NJ, the Covid-19 pandemic caused an enormous shift in work habits for residents of the Pascack Valley. In order to understand the ramifications on local economies, the following survey was designed by Westwood to be shared with residents, employees, and business owners throughout the Pascack Valley.

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New Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The “Commute is Dead”

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Ridgewood NJ, The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ recently released results from the American Time Use Survey new data verified what many have already experienced, the “commute is dead” and “remote work is hear to stay”.

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NY Attempting to Claim Oversize Portion of $14.2 Billion in Federal Transportation Aid at NJ’s Expense

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Why Won’t Murphy, Booker & Menendez Fight for NJ Taxpayers?

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Ridgewood NJ, With billions of federal transportation aid at stake, State Senator Steven Oroho expressed serious concern that Governor Phil Murphy, Senator Bob Menendez, and Senator Cory Booker aren’t doing anything to stand up for New Jersey in the latest attempted money grab by New York.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll: A Quarter of NJ Workers Never Going Back to the Office

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Ridgewood NJ, Half of New Jersey workers started working from home during the pandemic, and many of them don’t think that they’ll ever be going back to their workplace full time, according to the latest results from the FDU Poll’s survey of New Jersey voters. Even though most New Jersey adults are now vaccinated against COVID-19, only 27 percent of workers who started working from home say that they’ve started going back to the office full time, and 26 percent of those now working from home don’t think that they’ll ever be back in their workplace. This represents an enormous shift in work habits, and one that has ramifications for mass transit, and the economies of the states surrounding New Jersey. Republicans and Democrats also have very different experiences of the pandemic, and Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to want to go back to the pre-pandemic workplace experience.

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U.S. added 559,000 jobs in May, Misses 671,000 estimate

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Washington DC, Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 559,000 in May, and the unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point to 5.8 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, in public and private education, and in health care and social assistance.

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Time for Governor Murphy to Stop Rolling Over for New York in Interstate Tax Fight

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Trenton NJ, Senator Steven Oroho (R-24) called for Governor Phil Murphy to stop giving in without a fight to New York tax officials who are stepping up enforcement to claim income tax payments they don’t deserve from New Jersey residents.

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Study: New Jersey Is the 7th Best State for Working from Home

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Ridgewood NJ, with 71% of people whose jobs can be done remotely working from home all or most of the time during the COVID-19 pandemic, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the Best States for Working from Home, as well as accompanying videos, in order to highlight which areas are thriving and which are struggling in this pandemic economy.

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