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• Infographic: The history and future of the gig economy

  Brian Wallace Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The gig economy sure sounds new, but it’s been around a long time. Originally coined by jazz musicians to refer to performances, gigs have taken on a whole new meaning. As society shifts, gig workers are expected to outnumber traditional workers by the year 2021. Learn more about the history and future of gig work below.

• 5 ways to leverage this holiday season to build community at work

  Simma Lieberman Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Around this time of the year, I begin to get calls and emails from managers desperate to figure out how to celebrate the holidays inclusively. One CEO forbade their employees from posting any kind of decorations, or even mentioning the holidays. "We just told everyone that since some people might feel left out if we had a Christmas party, we were going to do nothing." He was surprised when I told him that might not have been the best idea. Not all employees are Christian and not everyone celebrates Christmas. But pretending Christmas and other holidays don’t exist doesn’t make people feel more included.

• Survey: Prior authorization remains a pain for a huge majority in healthcare

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  A consensus has been reached in healthcare, and the crescendo of hatred for prior authorization is clear. Medical practice professionals are sick of the red tape associated with the practice of getting the OK from an insurer regarding a proposed course of treatment for a perhaps-stricken patient. The opposition's angst for the process is overwhelming. According to a Medical Group Management Association survey, medical practice leaders say they are frustrated with "red tape and reporting requirements." Eighty-six percent say regulatory burdens increased in the past 12 months.

• Innovative urban farming can meet the demand for fresh produce

  Bambi Majumdar Food & Beverage

  Recent research from Arizona State University gives us hope for a sustainable agricultural future. Researchers assessed the benefits of urban agriculture and found that it can lead to food sustainability. The case study was that of urban agriculture in Phoenix, and the conclusion was that the city needed to use only 5% of its urban spaces to meet its sustainability goal. The study pointed out that this experiment can be adopted quickly by other cities that wish to develop their own sustainability goals through urban agricultural methods.

• Mindfulness: A potential lifeboat for middle school students?

  Sheilamary Koch Education

  Daniel was feeling anxious before an exam at school, but he paused and used the three breaths technique to get centered and settle his nerves before starting. When he got his test results, he seemed surprised — he’d expected a D or C but got a B — simply from being more grounded and calmer, shares Daniel’s instructor, mindfulness and emotional intelligence coach Janet Fouts. New evidence from two recent studies strengthens the argument in favor of mindfulness practice for young people. While earlier research has shown that mindfulness training has a positive effect on the adult brain, its impact on young developing brains was unknown — until now.

• A female CEO and an HR professional walk into a bar…

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  If you identify with either group, then your reaction to that title is likely: good for them, they probably need a drink. Unfortunately though, recent research shows that the likelihood of that meeting happening is still small. That is because female executives are still challenged by networking. And in some cases, we are the ones bringing the challenges on ourselves.

• Teaching meter in your music classroom

  Aileen Miracle Education

  For many years, I’ve been tweaking my process for teaching meter/time signatures. I wish teaching this were as easy as saying, "In 2/4, there are two beats in every measure, and in 4/4, there are four beats in every measure." But as we all know, it is much more complicated than this. In this article, I'll detail some strategies that have worked well for me in teaching meter or time signature.

• Survey: Healthcare costs rise at greater pace than workers’ wages

  Seth Sandronsky Medical & Allied Healthcare

  There is a reason that healthcare is so contentious in the Democratic Party’s presidential debates this year. "The single biggest issue in healthcare for most Americans is that their health costs are growing much faster than their wages are," Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) President and CEO Drew Altman said in the group’s Employer Health Benefits Survey. While the rate of unemployment is at a 50-year low, the amount of money that "employers and workers pay toward premiums continues to rise more quickly than workers’ wages and inflation over time," the survey found.

• Podcast: Building a cash-based sports rehab practice and membership website

  Jarod Carter Sports & Fitness

  During PT school, Greg Schaible found a fantastic sports rehab website and set up a clinical rotation with its founder, Joe Heiler. That experience was life-changing for him. After graduation, he found work as a physical therapist and later decided to start his own cash-based practice part-time. When presented with the opportunity to take over the sports rehab website he knew and loved, he enthusiastically jumped in, because it provided a welcome source of stable revenue as his practice gradually found its market. Ever since, Schaible has been building two businesses.

• Study: Groundwater supplies in peril as irrigation, pumping decimate aquifers

  Scott E. Rupp Waste Management & Environmental

  According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, water stored in aquifers underground makes up the vast majority of accessible freshwater on Earth. Its abundance has fueled forays into drier locales, enabling a boom in crop production. People and livestock are not the only things relying on aquifers. While about 70% of all groundwater used worldwide goes to agriculture, surface waterways, including rivers and streams, need groundwater, too. The Nature study shows the water is at an "ecological tipping point" that scientists call the "environmental flow limit."

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