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Top Workplaces 2023: Here’s how the rankings are determined

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

Great workplaces aren’t created by accident. They are built and nurtured. The Top Workplaces awards recognize the employers that do it well in the eyes of their employees.The heart of the Top Workplaces award is the employee survey process. Energage administers a 24-question survey to employees, who are the sole deciders of whether a company culture merits recognition.Bob HelbigThis is the 12th year The Denver Post has partnered with Energage, an employee survey company based in Exton, Pennsylvania, to celebrate exceptional workplaces.There is no cost to participate in Top Workplaces and no obligation to purchase any product or service. For 2023, 4,467 organizations were invited to survey their employees. Based on employee survey feedback, 150 Top Workplaces are recognized.In the current job market, companies continue to focus on recruiting, retaining and motivating employees. It’s more paramount than ever for companies to be intentional about a culture that prioritizes employee app...

Top Workplaces 2023: How to manage the return of “boomerang” employees

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

You’ve heard about the Great Resignation. But what about the Great Regret? Sometimes employees who leave their jobs wish they had not. It can pave the way for a former employee to return.Workers and human resources leaders need to have their eyes wide open when it comes to reuniting.Perhaps your organization felt the impact of the Great Resignation. For many, the pandemic was exhausting, anxiety-provoking, and many employees just needed a psychological reset. This prompted a wave of people leaving their jobs starting in the last half of 2021.Bob Helbig“A new employment opportunity represented a chance for a fresh start where they could shed the burnout conditions they were feeling at their current employer,” said Greg Barnett, chief people scientist at Energage. “But the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. As the honeymoon period ended, employees found themselves with an entirely new set of stress, pressure, and challenges.When people change jobs, they are forced to adapt ...

Video shows woman threatened by homeless man at Subway shop; employees just watch

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

Surveillance cameras captured the frightening moment when a woman was harassed and threatened by an apparent homeless man who followed her into a Subway sandwich shop, where store employees watched the incident unfold without attempting to help her.  The incident occurred in mid-March, at around 3 p.m., at a Subway sandwich location in Culver City.  A nurse from Long Beach, Halima Othman, said she first spotted the man outside the store on Sepulveda Boulevard, near Venice Boulevard, about a block away from a homeless encampment under the freeway overpass.  “This man says some things to me and then he starts talking about a hitman, I owe him money, he called me Carol or something, and I was like, ‘This man is deranged,’” Othman told KTLA.  When she went into the Subway to order food, she noticed that the man had followed her inside the store.  “So, I’m backing up into a corner and I'm like, ‘What do you want from me? I don’t have anything for you.’ He’s calli...

Missy, Willie and George Michael among Rock Hall inductees

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Chaka Khan, “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius and the late George Michael have all been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, with Kate Bush also finally reaching the top of that hill.The Cleveland-based institution announced Wednesday the artists and groups entering the hall as the class of 2023, a list that includes The Spinners, Rage Against the Machine, DJ Kool Herc, Link Wray, Al Kooper and Elton John's longtime co-songwriter Bernie Taupin.“When you can go from Link Wray, who was one of the early influencers, to Missy Elliott and Kate Bush and The Spinners and Rage Against the Machine and Willie Nelson, you have a very diverse body of work. What we are always trying to show is that rock ‘n’ roll is a big tent and a lot of people belong,” said Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation ahead of the unveiling.Elliott, the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, an MT...

Stopping CBD Suddenly- Could People Experience “CBD Withdrawal?”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

View the original article about CBD Withdrawal at Real Tested CBD.Unlike psychoactive cannabinoids like delta-8 THC, CBD has a reputation for being relatively safe for most healthy adults. Since CBD is non-psychoactive, it doesn’t tend to provoke harsh side effects like paranoia or intense lethargy. Many people also report using CBD oil daily without noticing significant adverse reactions.However, there are still questions about whether people could develop a dependency on CBD oil. If customers were to suddenly stop a long-term CBD regimen, would they experience withdrawal symptoms? If you’re thinking of incorporating CBD into your daily life, you may want to consider the implications of these side effects.Can Stopping CBD Supplements Trigger A Withdrawal?Currently, there’s not a ton of research looking into whether long-term CBD users experience withdrawal symptoms after quitting cold turkey. Not only is there a lack of data on this issue, but it’s tricky for researchers to disting...

San Francisco: No charges against guard in fatal shooting at Walgreens

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

A security guard who allegedly shot and killed a young man at a San Francisco Walgreens store last week won’t face charges related to the case, according to prosecutors. Police had arrested the 33-year-old guard after the shooting, at 6:33 p.m. Thursday near Market and Fourth streets. Banko Brown, 24, was found on the sidewalk and was taken to a hospital, where he died of his injuries. On Monday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said evidence reviewed by her office “clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense.” “We reviewed witness statements, statements from the suspect, and video footage of the incident, and it does not meet the People’s burden to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that the suspect is guilty of a crime,” Jenkins said in an emailed statement Monday night.The police have not released any details of the encounter other than to say it apparently inv...

49ers find another quarterback to help shoulder offseason workload: Brandon Allen

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

SANTA CLARA — Brandon Allen immersed himself in offensive systems similar to Kyle Shanahan’s at his past three NFL stops, so it’s only fitting that Allen is reportedly joining the 49ers’ quarterback crew for the offseason program.After not selecting a quarterback among their 11-man draft class, Shanahan requested the 49ers find one to shoulder lthe workoad with Trey Lance and Sam Darnold while Brock Purdy is two months into a six-month rehabilitation from elbow surgery.The Niners went the weekend without signing an undrafted free agent, then opted  for Allen, a 2016 sixth-round pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars, NFL Network reported Wednesday morning.Allen had stints with the Los Angeles Rams (2017-18), the Denver Broncos (2019) and the Cincinnati Bengals, where he helped serve as a mentor and backup to Joe Burrow.“We’d love to get a fourth guy here. We’ll see which one it is,” Shanahan said Saturday. “We’ll be alright, though, in the offseason. We’ll get to training camp. Hopefully ...

Editorial: What Bay Area banks can learn from SVB, First Republic failures

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

Unbridled optimism is an essential quality for Bay Area entrepreneurs. For its bankers, not so much.That’s the hard lesson from the collapse of two of the Bay Area’s premier regional banking institutions: San Francisco’s First Republic Bank and Santa Clara’s Silicon Valley Bank.Congress and the Federal Reserve have a lot to answer for whiffing on their oversight and regulatory duties. But the reckless practices of the managers of the two banks were at the root of the problem and should serve as warnings for other regional bank managers striving to avoid future collapses.It’s clear that both managers were overly optimistic that interest rates would remain low, protecting their long-range investments.For First Republic, it was heavy bets in commercial real estate market, which was upended by the pandemic. For Silicon Valley Bank, it was overinvestment in Treasury bonds, leaving it vulnerable to rising interest rates during the tech slowdown, and overrelia...

San Jose office site near big Google tech hubs lands local buyer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

SAN JOSE — A San Jose office building located near big Google tech hubs has been bought by a veteran real estate firm that’s active in the Bay Area.Dollinger Properties, acting through an affiliate, paid about $9.1 million for the 37-year-old building, according to documents filed on May 2 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office.The just-bought building is located at 150 Nortech Parkway and is near a big office, research and industrial tech campus with several buildings that Google owns in San Jose’s Alviso district, the county documents show.The building totals about 40,000 square feet and occupies a 2.5-acre parcel. The parcel, which includes a big surface parking lot, is large enough that it might be possible to replace the structure with a modern office or life sciences building. The building was constructed in 1986.The Dollinger Properties affiliate also obtained a loan of about $6.5 million from Technology Credit Union at the time of the purchase....

Husband of missing Suzanne Morphew seeks $15 million in lawsuit over murder prosecution

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:11 GMT

Suzanne Morphew (Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office) The Colorado man once accused of killing his missing wife filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday alleging the now-dropped criminal prosecution violated his constitutional rights.Barry Morphew, 55, is seeking $15 million for what he says was a malicious criminal prosecution in his wife’s disappearance.He is suing Chaffee County, the sheriff’s office and board of commissioners, 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley and members of her staff, as well as Colorado Bureau of Investigation and FBI agents.Morphew claims in the 185-page complaint that authorities conspired to wrongly arrest him, fabricated evidence, concealed exculpatory evidence and conducted a reckless investigation that led to Morphew’s being wrongly held in jail and prosecuted.The lawsuit follows a professional complaint filed last month by his attorney, Iris Eytan, against Stanley and several members of her office. Eytan accused the prosecutors of misco...