While frontline and essential workers worried about their physical health, isolation and loneliness affected nine-to-fivers during a historic rise in remote working. Employees in every sector dealt with financial insecurity due to widespread layoffs and pay cuts.
From curbside pickup and senior shopping hours to dining in yurts and viewing menus via smart phones, small businesses and restaurants were forced to institute a wide range of customer safety and service steps in 2020. Business owners now are examining which of those experiments were so successful that they will stay around post-pandemic.
When the virus finally begins to ebb, eCommerce companies will need to pivot—or continue to pivot—to meet the needs of a changing economy. You can analyze and apply the following strategies to enhance your eCommerce approach.
As Colorado and the nation continue to navigate the deep impacts of COVID-19, one thing seems certain—the pandemic has changed the way many of us have traditionally viewed and engaged with the health care system. Many times, crises create an urgency to speed up innovations to meet consumers’ demands and provide convenience. COVID-19 has led to a few emerging trends that may usher in permanent changes to the ways we access health care.
As the year comes to a close, the pandemic continues to hit Denver’s arts and creative sector especially hard. In the early fall, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and The Denver Foundation awarded nearly $1.2 million to 41 organizations thanks to the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund. Now, the Foundations are gearing up for a second round of emergency funding.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic–and in some ways because of it–the 2020 metro Denver real estate market through September continued to establish new highs (for home prices) and lows (for inventory).
To successfully recover, businesses should make adjustments in order to adapt to the nature of running a business during a pandemic and proactively work to prevent any COVID related claims, disputes, or litigation.
Even in the safest circumstances travel can be unpredictable. We still need to prepare and create thoughtful plans and figure out basic logistics especially to stay healthy.
The ski industry has been on a wild ride since the resorts were shut down last March. Mountain real estate has been on a tear and summer visitation has been off the charts. Winter looks to follow the upward trend. What does this mean for residential and commercial real estate in resort communities throughout Colorado?
The job of commercial driver, with a median advertised annual salary of $70,016, led all job postings in Colorado in the last week of July. Check out the top 10 most-posted job openings and median advertised salaries compiled by EMSI.
A fascinating experiment is unfolding as games are played in the absence of a live crowd.Technicians are making noise the digital way, by pressing buttons on tablet computers to evoke any of 50 pre-recorded crowd sounds. Behind the curtain, here is a fascinating existential question: Do you really need a live audience to stage a game?
Restaurants able to take advantage of a patio expansion for more seating and those with significant takeout and delivery operations before COVID-19 have fared better. But with winter approaching, restaurants that found success in the summer will face a new set of challenges.
Now is the time for you to preclude that risk, armed with knowledge and a strategy to effectively improve your properties and keep them stabilized, making them as profitable as possible; all the while abiding by your wealth management goals.
Before COVID-19, Denver, like many vibrant city centers, was experiencing unprecedented population growth and a renewed interest in concentrated metropolitan office space. Then the pandemic came into play.
With the novel coronavirus rampaging across the country in early March, occupancy and visitation in Colorado’s tourism hotspots experienced a big bust after an unprecedented boom. Higher demand for the great outdoors could benefit many Colorado destinations. Should we be doubling down on tourism in tough times?
Virtual kitchens, with their low barriers to entry and focus on streamlined delivery, are a smart and inexpensive way to get food into customers’ hands. Here are four reasons why a virtual kitchen could be the smartest move during these challenging times.
CommercialCafe surveyed 4,384 individuals who have been working from home, asking them about their living situations, their professional setup at home, their must-haves and what (if any) plans they had for a work area within their living space. Do you agree?
From job layoffs, furloughs and shuttered businesses—the COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly impacted our economy, forcing many to make the hard decision about whether or not to dip into their retirement savings to pay the bills and put food on the table. Research found three in 10 Americans withdrew money from their retirement savings and 27% of Americans have decreased the amount of money they are setting aside for retirement savings or stopped saving for retirement altogether.
The best way to keep up with the extra demand is to increase network capacity by creating new technologies and deploying more communications infrastructure. By expanding a network of small cells and fiber and working closely with municipalities, this company is improving access to robust broadband – both wireless and wireline.
It's not uncommon for people to change their retirement date. COVID is only one reason people are reconsidering their retirement date, and it’s not always a delay. The time to retire, whether earlier than expected or later, is all about preparation.
All stakeholders—education and IT leaders, teachers, as well as parents and caregivers—must work together to shore up five key areas to keep students engaged and learning, no matter where they are learning from.
“Big tech” has an even bigger role in growing small businesses and seeing us through these difficult times. Congress and other state leaders should look to those of us on the ground–the local leaders in small business growth and development – as they examine digital technologies and the tech industry in the future.
Naturally, many attorneys have been looking for alternative streams of income since the lockdown put the American economy in a vice grip, and one such stream is investing. But what are some investments an attorney can make that will specifically benefit them?
Across industries, leaders use the lessons from this large-scale work-from-home experiment to reimagine how work is done—and what role offices should play—in creative and bold ways. The real estate industry has recognized the need for change and adaptation in response to COVID-19, as well as the need to embrace technology.
