It takes more than competitive salaries and a solid benefits package to keep employees productive in New Jersey. Burnout, performance, and retention can also be affected by how people interact with each other every day. To demonstrate this, organizational psychologist…

AI is changing how businesses run: how they handle customers, how they build software, how fast they can move. That part’s real. But here’s what the Forbes crowd won’t tell you in their “10 AI Tools That Will 10x Your…

Reset the Apocalypse clock. Dust off your black turtlenecks. And cue the mournful violin. It’s been quite some time since Silicon Valley’s high priests appeared. Now they’re back, descending from their sacred server farms to deliver another urgent message: Stay…

During the last legislative session, New Jersey enacted legislation converting traditional small businesses into worker-owned companies. Under the legislation, the state economic authority can issue low-interest loans, subsidize technical feasibility assessments, and provide advisory services to local businesses. Rather than…

Corporate output is accelerating across automated sectors, but workers receive a diminishing fraction of the revenue their work generates. Federal data and economic accounts analyzed by the Dollars & Sense economic review indicate that worker compensation as a share of…

Corporate direct messaging is about to get annoying. The quick, private direct message between colleagues, long used for unvarnished feedback, rapid brainstorming, and personal venting, is now being discouraged in favor of open corporate channels. Executive teams are actively directing…

When walking into a neighborhood bakery at sunrise or settling into a historic theater seat on a Friday evening, it can be easy to forget that behind every familiar doorway lies a human story. Across New Jersey, family-owned businesses form…

From the boardwalks of Shore towns to the bustling downtown corridors of Montclair, Morristown, and South Jersey, New Jersey’s small business ecosystem is undergoing a profound structural shift. For decades, the backbone of the Garden State’s economy—family-owned bakeries, independent retailers,…

New Jersey is rapidly shifting away from its legacy as a traditional industrial and manufacturing corridor, emerging instead as a primary engine for the East Coast’s artificial intelligence boom. Over the past few years, the state has orchestrated a sweeping…