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How 3D architectural rendering services can boost your design business

Anvi Dave Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

While architects and designers have always had a number of tools to help them do their job, 3D architectural renderings have truly changed the game. By providing clients with photorealistic 3D images of interior and exterior spaces, you can improve your business' performance and profitability. Whether you want to find new clients, optimize your budget, or enhance communication, CGI and CAD can help you do it all. Read on to learn more about how architectural rendering services can boost your design business.

US employers add 4.8 million jobs in June; jobless rate drops to 11.1%

Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Employers added 4.8 million nonfarm jobs in June after hiring 2.5 million workers in May, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. June’s unemployment rate fell to 11.1% versus May’s 13.3%. Improvement in the labor market for the second straight month was due to a partial resuming of economic activity after nationwide business closures, notably in the hospitality and leisure sectors in March and April, to slow the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. That shutdown led to the loss of 22.2 million jobs.

Customer communication guides small business reopenings amid COVID-19

Kevin Reynolds Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Brett Evje, a restaurant owner in Montana, has a mantra: "Business is a two-way street." It wasn't a particularly groundbreaking statement before March. The relationship between customer and business was never something in question in the world before the coronavirus pandemic. Now, however, the simple phrase has taken on a greater measure of complexity. How businesses make the decision to open or remain closed is largely dependent on that customer-to-business relationship.

Study: ED clinicians hesitant to prescribe buprenorphine for treating opioid…

Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

Despite the fact that 2 million Americans are diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD) each year, evidence-based medications aren't often prescribed, especially in the ED setting. It's estimated that only a third of those diagnosed with OUD are given methadone, buprenorphine/naloxone or naltrexone for substance abuse treatment. A new study from Yale University seems to confirm that assumption. Researchers surveyed some 400 clinicians at four urban academic emergency departments.

How employers are helping employees reduce student loan debt

Grace Ferguson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

U.S. student loan debt reached a record $1.6 trillion in 2020, according to an article in Forbes. This accounts for 45 million borrowers, making student loan debt the second highest consumer debt in the U.S. — topped only by mortgage debt. Employers are taking notice. To attract and retain talented workers, a small but growing number of employers are offering student loan repayment plans (SLRPs).

What CEOs and other executives need to know about disability insurance

Colin Nabity Business Management, Services & Risk Management

As a CEO or senior executive, you have reached the pinnacle of your profession. That success comes with significant responsibility and compensation. Are you prepared for the possibility that an injury or illness could prevent you from fulfilling your duties? Can you and your family withstand losing some or all of your income in the event you can’t work? Here are some other questions CEOs and other high-income earners should ask as they consider the need for disability insurance.

What makes a difficult conversation difficult?

Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Why are some conversations difficult? People enter almost every conversation with certain expectations and opinions. Those expectations are based on the relationship between the people and the circumstances surrounding the conversation. When it feels like those expectations or positions are being challenged, human nature often reacts initially with emotion. For example, when a co-worker with a smile on her face after a holiday weekend approaches you and asks you about your weekend, you expect a pleasant conversation. Conversely, if you made a sizable mistake and your boss asks to meet with you, you enter the discussion with a degree of apprehension.

Emerging COVID-19 complications in children

Amanda Ghosh Medical & Allied Healthcare

The reopening of some daycare programs and summer camps gives parents another reason to monitor their children for signs of a COVID-19 infection carefully. Current data indicates that children are less vulnerable to COVID-19. However, a small proportion of those infected have developed severe complications.

Rare-earth elements spark resource war

Dave G. Houser Natural Resources

Rare-earth elements (REE) — also known as rare-earth minerals or rare-earth metals — are a group of 17 chemical elements of the periodic table. Although most of them are not terribly rare, they are highly strategic substances and vital components in most of the technology we employ every day. What is rare are deposits of these minerals in high enough concentrations to be feasibly and economically extracted. Presently, about 90% of the global supply of rare-earth elements comes from just one country: China.

When COVID-19 remains front and center

Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

During the first half of 2020, prognostications regarding the course that the COVID-19 pandemic would take were as diverse as the individuals, countries, and organizations debating what might truly come to pass. The pandemic has remained front and center on the world stage as economies teeter on the brink, millions are sickened, and thousands continue to die. Even so, the possible outcomes for one of the most challenging times in recent human history remain beyond accurate prediction.

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