Many Older People Maintain and Even Gain Cognitive Skills2024-10-07 23:39:42 [Scientific American]Aging is also associated with more positive overall emotional well-being, which means older adults are more emotionally stable than younger adults, as well as better at regulating desires.
Older adults can draw on their experience and often have much better solutions to problems than younger adults.
Older adults are less likely than younger people to see the world in stark black-and-white terms.
A meta-analysis combining data on more than 7,000 older adults found they were significantly more likely than younger adults to lean toward the positive versus the negative when processing information.
If someone has a healthy brain, age alone might be considered a definite asset.
The best employees are the most likely to leave over return-to-office mandates, new survey says2024-02-06 00:00:00 [Boston.com]Business The best employees are the most likely to leave over return-to-office mandates, new survey says Women and millennials were also more likely to leave a company that enforced return-to-office policies.
High-performing employees who are forced to return to the office are more likely to leave the company, according to a new study.
Most employees surveyed worked at companies with RTO mandates of 5 days a week, followed by a 2-to-3-day weekly in-office policy.
Advertisement:There was an 8% drop in intent to stay among all employees surveyed.
Gartner’s suggestions are in line with Choudhury’s research, which said keeping RTO policies flexible can impact an employee’s attitude and performance.
Surprising Working From Home Productivity Statistics (2024)2023-12-13 14:00:09 [Apollo Technical LLC]Amidst a pandemic, could your productivity working from home actually be better?
Performance can increase up to 13 percent by working from homeA study by Standford of 16,000 workers over 9 months found that working from home increase productivity by 13%.
Home-life distractions are more likely to prevent productive work when you don’t enjoy the work.
Remote work productivity was stable or increased when working remotely from home, according to a 2-year study of 800,000 employees.
Working from home and Maximizing productivityShifting from working in an office environment to working at home is a big change.
Bridging another digital divide: Accessibility for blind and low-vision consumers2023-11-08 17:14:02 [McKinsey & Company]Individuals we spoke with highlighted some helpful technological advances in recent years that have aided their digital experiences.
They also pointed to accessibility improvements that some companies have made to their websites and digital content.
While there’s no universal definition of digital accessibility, there are plenty of reference sources.
To understand the lived experiences of blind and low-vision consumers, we partnered with Tilting the Lens, a leading accessibility consultancy with lived experiences, to conduct qualitative user research on digital trust and sentiment as it relates to digital accessibility.
We engaged a digital accessibility expert who is blind to confirm the accessibility of nondisclosure agreement contracts, prereading-materials surveys, and video call setups.