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Recent government announcement caused a 62% spike in bookings, resulting in a surge beginning in June and peaking in August and threatening an ‘employee exodus’
e-days data identifies ‘Manic Monday’ as the day staff are booking holidays, with Monday COVID-19 progress announcements likely to exacerbate trend
Nottingham, UK, 2nd March, 2021: Following news this week that people have been rushing to book holidays for summer, data from absence management platform e-days reveals that Mondays, already the day people are most likely to book holiday, will see a spike in holiday bookings post government announcements in 2021.
New CDC guidance, CARES money for Alabama schools
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
New federal guidelines and money are headed to Alabama as officials push to get more children back into classrooms.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighted a growing consensus that schools can safely open if they have layered mitigation measures and if other pieces of society are making an effort to minimize community spread. The agency encouraged some level of in-person learning for elementary students, even in communities with high transmission rates, and said schools didn’t need to wait for staff to be vaccinated.
A majority of Alabama schools have offered in-person options all year, with an estimated 75% of children attending hybrid or all-face-to-face classes by February, according to Burbio’s School Opening Tracker. Despite occasional, apparent outbreaks, many superintendents said they felt it was important to reopen even knowing they wouldn’t always be able to kee
This year’s cohort is heavily skewed towards healthtech companies, representing 18 per cent of the total.
The UK is now third in the world for healthtech investment after the US and China, and over the course of 2020 we saw an increase in early stage investment, from $2.27bn in 2019 to $2.32bn in 2020.
Healthtech companies among the fastest-growing tech start-ups include LabGenius, which develops new protein-based drugs using machine learning – lowering the associated costs and risks of drug development; Belfast-based Locate a Locum, which enables temporary healthcare workers to connect; Oxford-based Vitaccess, a platform which quantifies patients’ experiences of treatments and illness; and London-based Blink, a communications platform for Frontline workers.
The Elba Board of Education met Tuesday, Dec. 15, for its regular monthly meeting, and among the actions approved during the meeting was a request from the superintendent to give employees two additional personal days.
Superintendent Chris Moseley said this had been something the administration had been thinking on as a way to give the employees something beneficial to them this year considering all they have dealt with due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He said the system was able to provide some Christmas gift items to employees this year also, and he said the feedback had been really good on those gifts.