Dilemma of the Month: Can I Make My Remote Workers Come Back?
Yes, employers can ask employees to come back to the office or
face termination — but should they?
Here’s What’s Ahead for California Businesses in 2022
Legislators may work on paid leave policies, employee data protections, farmworker elections, and more. There are ballot measure proposals that could impact businesses, and business groups will raise the issue of California’s unemployment insurance fund debt.
Lead by Example
Here are seven personal accountability qualities for leaders
By owning your circumstances, visualizing your goals and changing
when needed, you’ll find that success is yours for the taking.
These seven traits are vital to accountability in becoming a
champion leader.
Remote Work Is Here to Stay
So how do you keep your team productive?
In the new world, how supervisors work with their remote teams will be essential to business success, management experts and employers say.
Looking for Potential in 2022
Setbacks aren’t the exception, they’re the rule. Comstock’s president and publisher reflects on the challenges faced not only during the pandemic, but throughout a lifetime, and considers how they’ve strengthened her outlook.
Our Top Stories of 2021
From an homage to a burned Delta restaurant to a history of Cornish pasties, here are this year’s most-read stories.
Neighborhood Favorite: Chulla’s Cafe
A political-scientist-turned-restaurateur brings a globalist approach to African fusion
The Chulla’s Cafe menu borrows influences from African,
Asian, Latin American, South European and Pacific coastal
regions.
Getting to Know: Sarah Miller
A New Yorker satire writer and journalist calls Nevada City home
Freelance essayist Sarah Miller lends her idiosyncratic
style to The New Yorker website and many other
publications. The Nevada City-based writer was
commissioned by Substack to start her own
newsletter earlier this year.
Final Frontiers
How the obstacles and allure of small-town startups impact rural innovation
As remote work continues to be normalized within the technology industry, techies are migrating to the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. Several local tech entrepreneurs share their successes and hurdles.
Making an Acknowledgment
City of Sacramento recognizes tribal land
Tribal officials are working with Sacramento city government to secure a formal recognition of tribal land, creating opportunities for education.