SWC’s Fast Five
January 7, 2022
Change, change, change… self-operating tractors, a foreign automaker tops American auto-sales, mid-level staff lead the great resignation, goodbye “GMO – hello “bioengineered” and just in time for our holiday bills to come due, regulatory scrutiny sets its claws in the buy now, pay later industry.
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.
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.
SWC’s Fast Five
December 3, 2021
It’s money, money, money for today’s Fast Five – how to prepare to earn it on your own, earn more of it, why you can do that better in the U.S. than other countries, keep more of it and give it away.
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.
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.
SWC’s Fast Five
November 12, 2021
USPS has it together for Christmas, career paths defy parent choices, your new apartment might be your old office, Walmart deliveries go driverless while really (really) old cars are hot again.
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.”
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.