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Do I Need to Give Benefits to My Hourly Workers?

From a legal perspective, there’s a lot to consider. June 16, 2020 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In an ideal world and economy, every employer would be able to provide benefits such as health insurance, retirement plan matching, and travel reimbursements to all employees. However, it’s often not financially feasible […]

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This Entrepreneur Started Her Business to Offer Meals to New York City Hospital Workers

Stacy Rotner and GratiFoodNYC have donated over 3,000 meals since April. May 15, 2020 2 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In early April, Stacy Rotner launched GratiFoodNYC, a grassroots initiative dedicated to sending gratitude through food. Rotner’s first goal was to send meals to the frontline emergency and ICU department teams […]

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EU robotics project gives maintenance workers a ‘second pair of hands’

A five-year European Union (EU) project to develop a collaborative humanoid that helps workers in industrial environments has concluded, with the participants touting breakthroughs in “AI learning, natural language processing, and robotic manipulation.” The SecondHands project, born from the EU’s €80 billion ($ 87 billion) Horizon 2020 research program, set out back in 2015 to […]