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News and Views from Sturges Word’s 2021 Blog Posts

SWC’s Fast Five – December 17, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

December 17, 2021

It’s back to the drawing board on back to work, you’ll find a super random list of career paths with the highest wage growth (insurance broker anyone?), grim news for youngsters as 60-year careers are forecast for them, good news for the four-eyes among us as eye drops claim to replace glasses and, if you want to forget all that and contemplate the universe – a spacecraft has driven right into the sun. On purpose.

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SWC’s Fast Five – December 17, 20212021-12-16T12:10:14-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – December 10, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

December 10, 2021

Futurists are saying the 2022 work world means the death of hustle and the rise of looking out for yourself, school buses are tracking your kids, business is calling all you retirees to unretire, some next-year changes are this-year ready from cities running on crypto to manufacturing reshoring and what’s really cool – your kid’s plastic Chatter Telephone works on Bluetooth.

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SWC’s Fast Five – December 10, 20212021-12-10T12:47:27-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – November 26, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

November 26, 2021

Fast Five is feeling thankful so this week we bring you goodies from saving grandma’s recipes to upbeat gift ideas for the tech-inclined in your household plus cheering news of a young CEO, more flex for the creator economy in sharing its content and, ah, the four-day work week is getting real people.

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SWC’s Fast Five – November 26, 20212021-11-26T11:05:04-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – November 19, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

November 19, 2021

It’s fashion and leisure all day long for this Fast Five. Holiday shelves will be full at Target and Walmart, Macy’s is the top U.S. fashion brand, pandemic-ready is the new home design, other people’s homes are where we want to stay-work-vay-cation and, spam calls getting you down? Here’s some solutions.

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SWC’s Fast Five – November 19, 20212021-11-18T16:25:18-06:00

SWC’s Fast Five – November 5, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

November 5, 2021

We’ve adapted out shopping – from online ordering of TP, to tipping our pizza delivery robots to crushing Apple in our rush for a $19 product. Meanwhile back on the hiring front, there are new strategeries to overcome recruitment hurdles and a new title in the C-suite bringing new meaning to “heat.”

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SWC’s Fast Five – November 5, 20212021-11-04T15:25:00-05:00

SWC’s Fast Five – October 29, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

October 29, 2021

A fascinating, if not slightly unnerving, guide to all the sectors touched by Amazon; your neighborhood restaurant’s grease pit did great on a flight testing it for fuel; palm trees are so yesterday; and those spendy MBA degrees – turns out they pay off, literally, while undergraduate enrollment continues to tank.

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SWC’s Fast Five – October 29, 20212021-10-28T16:25:22-05:00

SWC’s Fast Five – October 22, 2021

SWC’s Fast Five

October 22, 2021

Housing shortage? Boomers are outspending Millennials. Truck driver shortage? Calling all high schoolers! Organ donor shortage? Amazing breakthrough with our little porker friends. “Everything shortage”? That’s on you and me, pal, we’re spending out of our minds. Car shortage? Yeah, yeah, old news but let’s talk about how your color choice speaks to your soul.

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SWC’s Fast Five – October 22, 20212021-10-21T14:32:34-05:00