As more workplaces join the perma-remote train, more cities and states are offering incentives for remote workers to relocate. The localities hope that newcomers, especially well-paid ones, can help boost their economies in the post-Covid era. Read more in INC …

Transparency and accountability over time are key to ensuring these corporations’ investments have a lasting impact. Financial institutions  should be required to inspect their outside efforts–and be held accountable for their results. Read more in Inc  Big Banks Are Committing…

The ability for our smartphones to function as a supercomputer has begun to facilitate unlimited business possibilities. Think about the location services of a smartphone for a moment. How often do you consider what goes into the functionality and reliability…

As Covid deepens inequality, questions rise on whether technology can narrow the gap. Inequalities such as gender and race-related issues that existed before Covid have been exacerbated by the pandemic in some parts of Asia. Read more in CNBC Can…

Fever monitoring has developed something of a bad reputation under COVID-19. While having a fever is one of COVID-19’s telltale symptoms, temperature checks capture only a moment in time. But a new report suggests that body temperature can play a…

Societal need and business opportunity are coming together to transform the way companies craft strategy, drive performance, and report results. Investors, lenders, and rating agencies expect greater visibility of an ever-broader range of nonfinancial metrics to better understand diverse social…

Of the $14.6tn spending announced by the world’s largest 50 countries in 2020, $1.9tn (13%) was directed to long-term ‘recovery-type’ measures. $341bn (18%) of long-term spending was for green initiatives. Read more in weforum These countries are leading the way…

As part of a package of initiatives to reduce gun violence this summer, Mayor de Blasio hopes to expand New York’s youth sports program—called Saturday Night Lights—by 400%. Read more in Fast Company  The other SNL: New York City’s athletic…

The question we want to be able to answer is how does TikTok compare against Twitter or WeChat as against WhatsApp. And what we’ve essentially found is that things like GDPR have done a lot of good in terms of…

Amazon is bringing its new biometric device, the Amazon One scanner, to Whole Foods store. The retail giant this past fall introduced the Amazon One scanner, which allows shoppers to enter a store by having their palm scanned. Read more…

As the pandemic drags on, big chains like Target and Nordstrom are looking for ways to keep consumers coming back to their stores. One go-to strategy is the store-within-a-store concept. It’s a way for one retailer to join forces with…

Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya says women and people of color look at technology from the outside—and have felt the negative impacts.”What I came to learn is that the people who are leading the data, the scientists and mathematicians and journalists and…

Among the quarter of the UK who said they’d found it harder to comply with the rules recently, 27% of men said boredom was a key reason, compared with 19% of women. Read more in conversation  Second lockdown left women…

A prime example of this is Patagonia’s remarkable ad campaign during the Black Friday pre-Christmas sales period of 2011, which told shoppers ‘Don’t buy this jacket’, just as most retailers were offering huge discounts. The idea was to encourage consumers…

The keynote started with the mantra “Building a more helpful Google for everyone” — with the goal of being helpful in moments that matter. For example, Google recently added 150,000km of bike lanes in Google Maps. Also coming to Google…

Companies often achieve customer-centricity on specific projects here and there, but fail to make it a long-lasting priority across the entire organization. In other words, they fail to embed customer-centricity into their culture. Three main factors have contributed to the…

The megatrends and strategic inflections that cause leaders to rethink culture will not go away when the pandemic is under control. Organizations will continue to navigate unprecedented disruption, including the potential for more pandemics, the fight for equality. Read more…