Prior to the pandemic, online education was already thriving. And industries that require mostly computer work were seeing the benefits of letting people labor from home. But the pandemic pushed the workforce to remote platforms and accelerated the progress in both education and industry toward remote work. And along with it, something else escalated. Cheating. The increase of online and remote work has resulted in an equally astounding escalation in unethical behavior. People who work…
Major American businesses are scrambling to prove how woke and virtuous they are. The simplest way to do that is to bow to the whims of Critical Race Theory. So, in August, Bank of America, Lowe’s Home Improvement, and Truist Financial sponsored a United Way “Racial Equity 21-Day Challenge.” The “challenge” claims that America is systemically and institutionally racist and encourages participants to get “woke at work” while urging white people to “cede power to…
Last September, Geoffrey Owens, the actor best known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux in the Cosby Show, was photographed bagging groceries at a Trader Joes in New Jersey. Suddenly, he was famous again. And not in a good way. The photo tumbled across the internet and generated hundreds of unkind comments and insults toward Owens. Rapidly actors locked arms to defend Owens, to denounce “job shaming,” and to reflect on the value of work.…