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Attendance saves

  Attendance saves There’s been a lot of coverage of the opioid epidemic, the plight of middle-age non-college-educated white people, and “deaths of despair” (i.e., suicides and deaths from drugs and alcohol) in the last couple of decades. But a new study suggests that the origin story lies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when attendance at religious services plummeted, especially among middle-age non-college-educated white people, and was followed by a sharp upturn in deaths of despair among this group. Giles, T. et al., “Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion,” National Bureau of Economic Research (January 2023). Selective enforcement In 2017, one of the priorities of the new Trump administration was to crack down on high-tech work visas for foreigners. A political scientist obtained records of employer petitions for such visas by submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to US Citizenship and Immigration Services and indeed found a...

Field service management software - a power tool for the entire team

 Field service management software - a power tool for the entire team   Business When it comes to field services, customers have higher and higher expectations with very passing day and companies need to meet them and even exceed them if they want to remain competitive in a highly aggressive market and business environment. To that extent, the field service management software has become an essential tool for companies, empowering technicians with consistent, real time information with regard to customer orders, asset, inventory and other such aspects that help the outperform their competitors. This real time flux of information helps field technicians get the job done right on the first call, more quickly and more efficient that their peers, which leads to a higher first time response rate. However, the field service scheduling software is not a power tool just for the field technicians, but also for the entire team, helping each department with the particularities of their t...