Readers of the blog know very well that I love travelogues and reading about different corners of the world. In our singular life, we cannot travel everywhere that our mind wishes to travel. We are often bound by finances, the duty to work, and dedication to family (and now, covid). Even if we were to only travel all our lives, one lifetime isn’t enough.
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I always think that “work from home” (WFH) will wane after the COVD-19 vaccines are well spread, and when we all “return to work”. In this context, it is interesting to explore this issue through the lens of an unexpected development during the widespread WFH.
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Four Lessons from Online Teaching. The benefits of online education are fundamentally different from that of classroom teaching. I provide my personal tips on tools to enhance the online teaching experience.
Leave a CommentI have been occasionally commenting on the nature of workforce in the United States. I was browsing around BLS Data and this fact surprised me, even though this trend has been happening for a decade, right under my nose, but I hadn’t noticed.
Leave a CommentIt has been a tough April, and I am among the fortunate ones. I know from the extraordinary people around me, how difficult and dire the conditions have been for many people.
Here are my pandemic recommendations. Some light, some heavy. Some funny, some serious. Instead of reviewing them fully, I recall the associative memories from reading experience that came back to me, as I thumbed through these copies.
A look at how service jobs are changing the nature of US workforce. In Dec 2019, there were more women than men in the workforce in the United States. I briefly ponder why this is the case.
Leave a CommentWhile brick and mortar retail is facing the biggest challenge in years, retail stores as a channel are not going away. The key to running a successful brick and mortar store lies in executing a careful trade-off between high efficiency and high customer experience. An excellent work by an operations colleague Kesavan shows that “treating your employees with stable schedules” does not have to be a trade-off.
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