Idaho Business Review IBR

Social media profiles have become an ingrained part of most of our lives. At one time they were a novelty that seemed to mostly serve the purposes of remembering Aunt Betty’s birthday or sharing the latest video of cat hijinks; ...

Millennials make up more than 50 percent of the global workforce, leading businesses to jump on the social enterprise bandwagon in part because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it now makes economic sense. Younger workers want ...

Many contractors are noticing that old legal rules regarding communications created in the days of pencils and paper do not always reflect reality at construction sites where most project managers now operate with a smartphone or tablet. Those project managers ...

Stigma holds us back; here’s how to beat it. In my line of work as a clinical psychologist, one of the biggest barriers to being able to help lawyers, law students and judges is the stigma that many feel about ...

It’s not easy being a physician in today’s environment.  I especially feel sorry for Idaho doctors in private practice. They are demoralized by superfluous regulations, the cost and hassle of electronic medical records, the threat of litigation, and pressure to ...

A federal appeals court ruled recently that an employer could not maintain a rule prohibiting audio or video recording in the workplace, becoming the second such court to determine that such a policy violates federal law. The July 25 decision, issued ...

Despite the fact that marijuana is illegal in Idaho, positive employment-related drug tests for marijuana in our state have risen a whopping 80 percent over the last six years, from 1 percent in 2010 to 1.8 percent in 2016. The ...

The thought of a PR crisis is daunting for one predominant reason: timing. It’s the great unknown, and given the dearth of clairvoyants, crisis anxiety is understandable. However, preparation — specifically, developing a crisis-communications protocol — can serve as a ...

In 2016, over 33,000 Americans died as a result of an accidental overdose related to prescription pain relievers or heroin, and over two million people had an opioid use disorder. In August 2017, President Donald Trump announced plans to declare ...

Law schools and continuing legal education programs do an excel­lent job teaching such subjects as civil procedure, torts and criminal law, but they typically don’t teach aspiring lawyers how to market their services, work effectively with clients and colleagues, mobilize ...