Torchlight recently launched Torchlight Manager, a solution that supports Human Resources departments in guiding managers to create a caring culture at work during and beyond the coronavirus pandemic. Designed for HR leaders, the new offering provides managers with key resources so they can support employees who are struggling to balance the intensity of work and life demands … [More]
Promoting Workforce Opportunity for the Deaf
With a rise in unemployment rates due to COVID-19, the deaf and hard of hearing are particularly vulnerable in the workplace. In fact, a study published in The New York Times acknowledged that employers are 34 percent less likely to hire an experienced job candidate with a disability. For this, among other reasons, nearly half of deaf people (47 percent) are not in the labor, … [More]
New Executive Office: VP of People and Organizational Development
Creating a new position in its executive team, Delta Dental of Arizona has promoted Jolean Fleck to VP of people and organizational development. Fleck will help the dental insurer navigate ever-changing workplace and societal challenges, with a focus on leadership development, employer branding and enriching the employee experience. “Part of it is that I’ve done … [More]
Looking Good 2020 – September Standouts
Achievements Terracon Achievements: Top Rankings & Philanthropy Paul Johnson Drywall Holds AZ on Top-Ranking Contractor List Positions UnitedHealthcare Donates More than $100,000 to Nonprofits in Arizona … [More]
Small-Business Success for Arizona-based Supplement Brand
For many people, this pandemic brought to light the importance of supporting their immune system and improving health. Zinc Up, from Phoenix-based NB Pure, was created as a convenient solution to aid immune health. Wellness enthusiast Danna Pratte founded NB Pure as a manufacturing, distribution and sales company that provides nutrition and natural wellness solutions. … [More]
Local Standouts Recognized for Achievements and Philanthropy
ACHIEVEMENTS Terracon Achievements: Top Rankings & Philanthropy The Southwest regional offices (Ariz., Nev., N.M.) of Terracon, a leading provider of environmental, facilities, geotechnical, and materials services, moved up nine spots from last year to No. 13 on Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) list of Top Southwest Design Firms, while the company overall … [More]
Notarize Remotely
eNotaryLog, the first remote online notary (RON) platform to be MISMO®-certified, is an agile cloud technology company providing a flexible, secure, and complete SaaS RON/RIN platform. MISMO® created RON standards to promote consistency across mortgage banking industry practices and state regulations to allow the use of audio-visual communication devices to notarize documents … [More]
Improve I/O Efficiency
DymaxIO, from Condusiv Technologies, dynamically accelerates data for maximum I/O performance. By solving I/O inefficiencies at the source, DymaxIO improves application performance, increases throughput 30–40 percent, reduces latency, increases VDI capacity, reduces timeouts and crashes, shortens backups, improves data transfer rates and extends hardware lifecycles. This … [More]
Remote Collaboration in Real Time
Designed to deliver a highly user-friendly, robust and low-cost way to connect remote team members via real-time collaboration anywhere in the world and on any AR-enabled device, Avatar CONNECT is a powerful AR-enabled remote workforce solution that dramatically improves design, field coordination, installation, project management, quality control and assurance, productivity, … [More]
While Businesses Shut Down in Arizona, Google Searches Ramped Up
This past December, my children and I were at home in my living room having a conversation about specific, influential events that changed the world. We had just finished watching the celebrated one-shot war film 1917 together about two young British soldiers during World War I whose actions would end up impacting world history as we know it. The movie had a profound effect on … [More]
Heidi’s Village Provides a ‘Pawsitive Day’ for Cats and Dogs
An animal shelter and veterinary clinic that’s the first of its kind in Arizona, the recently opened Heidi’s Village is an animal welfare organization that partners with the chronically overburdened existing animal shelters and rescue organizations to provide temporary boarding for dogs and cats when their space and resources are limited. Medical intervention, grooming, … [More]
Company Grows Employment in Reimagined Workplace
Liveops is a leader and pioneer in the virtual call center space with a distributed workforce of more than 20,000 domestic home-based agents. Since March, Liveops has created thousands of opportunities for new agents. At a time when unemployment is skyrocketing and many are suffering unprecedented economic and mental hardships, it is rewarding to provide safe and flexible … [More]
Looking Good: August 2020 Standouts
ACHIEVEMENTS Sundt Rises on Top 400 Contractors List Sundt Construction, Inc. climbed to No. 52 on Engineering News Record’s recently released 2020 Top 400 Contractors list. ENR, the construction industry’s principal trade publication, generates its list of Top 400 Contractors based on the prior year’s construction revenue. Sundt reported more than $1.7 billion in … [More]
HCM Connected and Futureproof
Transforming the way businesses manage their most important asset — their people — iSolved provides awesome human capital management (HCM) outcomes and a full employee experience by design through a connected futureproof solution. iSolved’s human capital management and people platform brings together HR, payroll, time and attendance, and benefits enrollment all in one … [More]
Verified Talent Directory
The recently rolled out Talent Directory from Credly, a leader in digital credentials, brings skills-based talent sourcing to the forefront, allowing organizations to find uniquely qualified candidates based on verified skills, and enabling qualified professionals to add value to opportunities for which they would have initially been overlooked. Using Talent Directory, … [More]
Real-Time Dining-Out Data
SIP is a member-based app designed to offer an advantage to each part of a three-pillar ecosystem of venues, consumers and alcohol companies, by providing marketed brands with real-time data about consumer alcohol purchasing behaviors inside bars and restaurants and bars — all with meaningful perks and drink discounts to its member base in return for the purchase data of their … [More]
Cost Transparency Can Increase Sales 20%
Businesses don’t typically disclose information to consumers on how much it costs to produce a product. However, the study “Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency” we recently conducted — along with our colleague Leslie John of Harvard Business School — provides evidence that doing so can increase consumers’ purchase interest by more than 20 percent. We also found … [More]
Jobs, Wages and Value
As business tries to gear back up from the COVID-19 shutdown, the health of the economy is a major concern. Businesses are concerned about their profitability, and employees are concerned about their wages. Business.org, a company that researches and compares the top business products and services, conducted a study on pay rates across the country for the “essential … [More]
