Education & Workforce

VP tapped to plan LSU’s future strategy leaves after two years

Mark Bieger, who served as LSU’s vice president of strategy for two years, has left for a new job leading the West Point Association of Graduates. 

LSU’s Foodii continues to innovate by adding new revenue sources  

Since it opened in 2013 in a former poultry lab on the LSU campus, the LSU AgCenter Food Innovation Institute has been best known for helping culinary entrepreneurs develop products and get them to market. 

Four-day workweek can lead to more efficient employees

Employees become more efficient when the average workweek drops from 38 hours to 33 hours, according to new research. Conventional wisdom among employers has been that a four-day workweek would result in a productivity decline.

Automation could begin replacing certain jobs sooner than anticipated

Automation was already expected to wipe out millions of jobs in the U.S., but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace of these changes.  

Prime-age workers participating in US job market at record levels

Americans in their prime are employed or on the job hunt at a rate...

How to motivate employees to reach their full potential

What should you do when your employees aren’t reaching their full potential? According to...
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Workers in the office spend their downtime scrolling, while breaks at home are spent handling life’s little tasks 

People who love working remotely often talk about how much more work they get done from home, but, according to The Wall Street Journal, it's actually their downtime during the workday that is more productive.    

Hurricane season is getting longer thanks to hotter temperatures

Hurricane season officially runs June 1 through November 30, but Louisiana State Climatologist and LSU professor Barry Keim and a group of researchers are finding that hurricane season is starting earlier and ending later each year.  

Louisiana workers who didn’t leave their jobs saw pay gains over the past year 

Louisiana workers who remained in their jobs over the past year experienced the highest...

Opinion | Can college admissions be race-neutral?

Lucas Spielfogel is executive director of the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition, a free program...