Comment on Oklahoma business briefs for June 8.

The 5Qs Formula encourages you to reflect on five key questions that boost optimism, gratitude, clarity, emotional resilience, and motivation, helping you approach the day’s challenges with greater ease and more joy. As we approach the end of the year and begin planning for Q1 2025, it’s the perfect time to focus on boosting employee productivity, well-being, and engagement.

These principles are an important step toward nature conservation and protecting Indigenous peoples. For more than a century, conservationists have worked to preserve natural ecosystems by creating national parks and protected areas. Today the Earth faces a global biodiversity crisis, with more than one million species at risk of extinction. This makes it even more important to conserve places where at-risk species can thrive.

Google has worked hard to make its new Gemini AI assistant sound more human. Could that lead people to project race and gender biases on what they hear? Google has worked hard to make its new Gemini AI assistant sound more human, but could that lead to people projecting race and gender biases on what they hear?

Personalized work schedules and telecommuting options offer a buffer against the stress caused by abusive bosses, researchers found. In today’s high-pressure business world, demands like meeting sales targets and managing customer relationships are challenging enough. But for some workers, the real battle is surviving the toll of an abusive manager.

Skin rashes, breathing difficulties, and ‘generational rage’ led residents to join a nationwide push against companies that endanger health and the environment. In late September, a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over metro Atlanta, lingering for weeks and prompting national news coverage.

Every week I commute from Chicago to Nashville for work, and I’m not planning on moving anytime soon. I live in the Chicago suburbs and work in Nashville, where my employer, Vaco Holdings, is headquartered. Every week, I pack a bag, say goodbye, and hop on a 1.5-hour flight for most of the workweek.