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Business Record 4-3-20

A Closer Look with Barbara Stinson

Focus: Legal Matters

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How will COVID-19 shape organizations’ HR strategies?

Over the past several weeks, organizations of all sizes have dealt with unparalleled changes (and journalists have reached for their thesaurus to find new synonyms for “unprecedented”).  Standing in the breach of the turmoil are …

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Legal Matters

The Business Record on March 11 held a Newsroom 515 panel discussion on legal issues including the coronavirus and its effect on the workplace. 

Since the discussion, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has encouraged employers, when …

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NOTEBOOK: A glimpse inside the card payments world amid COVID-19

Each holiday shopping season the folks at Shazam, the Johnston-based electronic payments network and debit card processor, provide an update on card usage trends. I decided to check in last week with Shazam’s vice president …

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NOTEBOOK: Women fare worse than men in a pandemic: What can businesses do?

Like most Americans working remotely during the pandemic, I’ve been comparing notes with colleagues and friends on how we’re keeping everything together. Particularly with women, there is a theme to the conversation. After discussing how …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the March 27 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the March 27 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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Business Record 3-27-20

2020 Women’s Survey 

Focus: Women in Business

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NOTEBOOK: City of Des Moines variance sets precedent for universal restrooms

National building code requires designers to calculate the occupancy level of a building and then have the required number of restrooms with the assumption that half those occupants are men and half are women. Many …

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NOTEBOOK: What’s new with foreign trade zones?

Foreign trade zones — a longstanding economic development tool with a tepid take-up rate among Iowa companies — have gotten a little bit of a boost lately. 

The Greater Des Moines Partnership, which administers the …

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New name, same role for Mission Cancer + Blood

One of Central Iowa’s largest cancer medicine practices has two primary sets of stakeholders — the medical groups that it partners with and the patients that its physicians treat. For the latter group, however, many …