Internal Amazon records from 2016-19 show that warehouse-worker injuries have increased each year despite the company's statements that robotics has improved worker safety, according to a report by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Injury rates have been higher than average during the weeks of Prime Day and Cyber Monday, data shows.
US LBM will sell to customers through a Raymond Building Supply-branded location in Lakeland, Fla., that includes a warehouse. Separately, F.W. Webb has purchased a warehouse in Colonie, N.Y.
Nearly 80% of cold storage facilities in the US are more than two decades old, and the number of newer facilities is not enough to keep up with demand, according to JLL Research.
A variant of phishing known as vishing involves scammers posing on the phone as trusted sources, in one case as the front desk of The Ritz London asking for credit card information. Ntirety CEO Emil Sayegh writes that vishing is an upscale variant of the scam in which crude criminals call purporting to be from Apple, Microsoft, the IRS or a local utility company.
Just because your top performing sales person is successful in their job it doesn't mean they'll have what it takes to coach and inspire others as a team manager, writes Colleen Francis. Focus on transferable skills and the candidate's ability to learn, since new managers will need training to thrive, she writes.
Be specific with praise and let people know how their performance made you feel, writes Ken Blanchard. "People who feel good about themselves produce good results -- and people who produce good results feel good about themselves," he writes.
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