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2025 World Digital Competitiveness Ranking: Switzerland United States and Singapore Lead Global Rankings
Global digital transformation is accelerating, with artificial intelligence and data applications becoming key foundations of national competitiveness. The IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking reflects the strengths of economies in knowledge, technology, and future readiness. IMD’s 2025 World Digital Competitiveness Ranking assesses 69 economies based on knowledge, technology, and future readiness.
Seafood Without the Sea? Aquaculture Rapidly Becomes Japan’s New Market Mainstream
Affected by climate change, declining seaweed beds, and volatile catch volumes, Japan’s seafood supply is undergoing a major shift from wild capture to aquaculture. The rapid expansion of fish farms is now quietly redefining the mainstream landscape of seafood on Japanese dining tables. OSAKA, JAPAN (MERXWIRE) – Seafood has always been easy to find in Japan—whether at a supermarket counter or a neighbourhood sushi shop, the taste of the ocean is never far away.
Putting the Employee Break Room to Work
In recent years, there have been countless discussions and studies striving to pinpoint what, exactly, employees want and need if they are to forego the comforts of home and the freedoms of remote work to return to the workplace on a regular basis. The list of wants and needs is vast, meandering from accessible mental health services, elevated hygiene, and a greater sustainability commitment to improved workplace culture, casual collaboration spaces, and an integration with nature.
Hartlepool Borough Council wants to improve citizens’ lives
2023 is already in full swing, and Hartlepool Borough Council has vowed to make the health and well-being of its residents a top priority this year It’s a new year, and the health and well-being of residents is a top priority at Hartlepool Borough Council. In the current cost-of-living crisis, people are anxious about rising costs and concerned about keeping their homes heated throughout the coming months.
Make 2023 the Year Without a Restroom Complaint
CMM’s 2022 Building Service Contractor (BSC) Benchmarking Survey found that, for the third year in a row, the single greatest challenge to customer satisfaction is a facility’s restrooms. Although the percent of BSCs ranking restrooms at the top of the customer complaint list has dropped year over year—from 44% in 2020 to 42% in 2021 and 35% in 2022, its dominance suggests that restroom design, maintenance, and cleaning continue to leave room for improvement.
Touchless Restroom Dispensers
Q: How did COVID-19 impact demand for touchless restroom dispensers? A: COVID-19 brought with it not only a fast-spreading superbug that led to a worldwide pandemic, but also a recognition that as individuals and businesses there was significant room for improvement in regard to hand hygiene.
The UN Should Double Down on Food Systems Sustainability
For the past 60 years, a series of agricultural innovations have helped feed the world. New varieties of staple crops produced high yields. New fertilizers encouraged crop health. And improved agronomic methods helped farmers make the most of their resources. These new tools and practices became foundational to the production of agriculture in the U.S. and around the world, enabling marked increases in output and important reductions in rural poverty.
Businesses Succession Planning: Prepare For Life After A Director's Death - Minutehack
Succession arrangements are vital to protecting a business on the death of a shareholder or director. While surviving directors can take over the running of the company, the position is complicated for companies with only a sole director and, even more so, where that sole director is the sole shareholder too. This is typically the case for many family businesses.
How To Prepare For The Death Of A Sole Director And Shareholder
UK: How To Prepare For The Death Of A Sole Director And Shareholder 10 June 2021 by Rosie Todd and Julie Howard Stevens & Bolton To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Whilst a difficult topic to consider, the sudden death of a company's sole director who is also the sole shareholder can be very problematic for the business' succession arrangements.
Succession Planning: Prepare For The Death Of A Sole Director And Shareholder
UK: Succession Planning: Prepare For The Death Of A Sole Director And Shareholder 01 April 2021 by Rosie Todd and Julie Howard Stevens & Bolton To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Succession arrangements are vital to protecting a business on the death of a shareholder or director.
5 Tips for Improving Hygiene and Reducing Operating Costs
Whether big or small, essential or nonessential, virtually every U.S. business has been financially impacted by COVID-19. As lockdowns continue to ease, businesses reopen their doors to employees and customers, and individuals become increasingly more comfortable leaving home, companies are faced with finding ways to not only return to business but remain in business for the long-term.
Safeguarding your family’s future
Solicitors Julie Howard and Nicola Broadhurst join forces to explain how franchisees can protect their businesses in the event of death or incapacity. Protecting a business has always been a top priority for owners but the uncertainty created by the on-going Covid-19 pandemic has only served to focus the minds even more. Having succession arrangements in place to address the risk of death, or even incapacity, is a key part of any protection strategy.
The United Nations Food Systems Summit: What’s at Stake for the United States?
February 9, 2021 Last fall, UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutérres announced he would convene a major UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) in New York this September. He made clear that the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could not be achieved without transforming the world’s food and agriculture systems to become more productive, environmentally sustainable, and able to deliver more nutritious, affordable food.
Brown Towels: Where Hand Hygiene Meets Sustainability
As a facility manager or BSC, you do your best to advance both hygiene and sustainability to support the well-being of building occupants and the environment. But there is no question that sometimes sustainability is sacrificed for hygiene and vice versa. Due to heightened awareness and concern about hygiene (particularly hand hygiene) in the current novel coronavirus pandemic, this could be truer now than ever before.
Covid-19 Threatens Global Food Security: What Should the United States Do?
April 22, 2020 In recent weeks, the United States and other high- and middle-income countries have taken bold steps to contain the Covid-19 disease. The spread of the coronavirus is at an earlier stage in lower-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. But there is every reason to believe that impacts will be devastating as governments—South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, and many others—have already begun to shut down many businesses and put travel restrictions in place.
After COVID-19: Long-Term Investments Facility Managers Can Make for Health and Hygiene
With the rapid spread of COVID-19 throughout China, Europe, and now the United States, public health officials, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have been urging individuals to take a number of immediate protective measures to help slow or stop the spread of the virus.
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