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Are You ‘Acting Your Wage’? With the incredible demand for labor in the workplace today, many businesses find themselves short-staffed due to the rising cost of inflation, including fuel and raw materials supplies. Businesses today are being squeezed from all angles when it comes to maintaining profitability. Unfortunately, this has led to a tremendous amount of pressure on employees to over-perform in their roles or take on multiple roles that go beyond their initial hire.While there are cases where an employee may not be "acting their wage," in many instances, in the world we live in today, almost all employees...

4 Reasons ‘Quiet Firing’ is Bad for Business While the phenomenon of “quiet quitting”—representing an employee doing the least required for their job to just “get by” until they opt to leave or are let go—having gained its fair share of attention in recent years, another clandestine workplace practice us underway: quiet firing. This subtle, equally insidious practice is typified by employees being “nudged out” amid a workplace culture and conditions cultivating voluntary resignations rather than the staffer being formally terminated. There are a litany of ways companies can passively undertake quiet firing, with many associated with unwelcome changes. For...

  The rebirth of tourism in Italy’s art cities     2023 marked an important turning point for tourism in Italy’s art cities. According to the Centre for Tourism Studies in Florence, the year ended with a return to pre-Covid levels, recording 445.3 million stays in accommodation facilities, an increase of 8.1% compared to 2022. The hotel segment saw significant growth of 9.3%, while the non-hotel segment experienced a more gradual recovery. Italian art cities recorded an online accommodation booking rate of 38.9%, ranking first in the European Union, ahead of countries such as Greece, France and Spain, and welcoming...

Travelport Delivers avianca’s NDC Content and Servicing on Travelport+     LANGLEY, UK, April, 2024: Travelport, a global technology company that powers bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide, and avianca, a Latin American multinational airline, headquartered in Colombia and a member of Star Alliance, today announced that NDC content from avianca and enhanced NDC servicing capabilities are now available in the Travelport+ platform. Travelport’s agency customers can easily access the complete avianca NDC solution on Travelport+ through the Travelport API, Smartpoint Cloud and Smartpoint desktop solutions.   Agents using Travelport+ will now be able to easily search, view,...

AI-Powered Coffee Bean Sorter, avercasso® CS One, Receives  the iF DESIGN AWARD 2024     Taipei, Taiwan – March 6, 2023 – avercasso®, a leading coffee equipment maker, is  thrilled to announce that its groundbreaking innovation, the CS One, has received  prestigious global recognition at the iF DESIGN AWARD 2024. The CS One, the  industry's first AI-powered green coffee bean sorting solution, selects beans with  stability and precision to create an aromatic, healthy cup of coffee, saving time and  labor costs during the coffee-making process.  AVer CEO Andy Hsi expresses the concept behind the AI coffee bean sorter: “The  avercasso® CS...