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Posts:May 2021, Analytics
‘Tis the Season to Set Your Holiday Marketing Strategy
by Lauren Samaha| May 28, 2021
It’s not too early to start planning your holiday marketing strategy — in fact, you’re right on time. According to the National Retail Federation, sales during the 2020 holiday season grew 8.3% despite the unexpected disruption of a global pandemic. While resilience is the word many would use to describe the incredible year-over-year growth, I […]
How to Engage Retail Employees Post-Pandemic
The question of how to engage retail employees is a perennial topic that’s only gathered in urgency over the past year. The survival of many retailers has been due to their essential workers, who never stopped working and have worked harder than ever. Workforce norms transformed as a result, with previous nice-to-haves becoming “new essentials” […]
Helping Food and Agriculture Workers Find Stability
by Michele Murray| May 13, 2021
Helping food and agriculture workers thrive across America is not just vital to our economy, but to bringing food to the table. This workforce is at a critical juncture now, with food and ag employees struggling with a high level of burnout during the pandemic. As we put the pieces back together, how can employers […]
Navigating U.S. Tech Workers’ “New Essentials”
by Melissa Kinch and Lisa Sullivan| May 6, 2021
What do U.S. tech workers want from their employers? The answers today are likely much different than they would have been before the pandemic. Despite being the industry that pioneered work-from-home, and that enabled millions of workers and students to keep on working/learning despite this unprecedented crisis, tech isn’t immune to new levels of scrutiny […]