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Patty Baird hasn’t taken a single day off in the past year. Cedar House Sport Hotel, her boutique hotel in Truckee, is experiencing a surge of reservations. Even weekday evenings are getting booked up by the work-from-anywhere contingent. Baird is grateful for the additional business, but she’s struggled to hire more staff, which has left her working 12- to 16-hour days. 

Difficulty hiring is just one of several issues Baird faces this summer as California’s economy reopens. The uptick in COVID-19 cases across the state caused by the more contagious delta variant has renewed her sense of uncertainty. She has stopped taking deposits for events because cancellations and

In everyday terms, a decade is only 3,650 days. You may not look all that different today than you did in 2011, save a few wrinkles, some gray hairs, and oh, maybe 15 pounds of pandemic-induced stress eating.

But at the intersection of technology and financial services, the landscape of 2021 looks nothing like what we saw a decade ago.

Companies don’t look the same, either.

The evolution of platform economies, the app-driven culture that has swept all of us along, the “everything as a service” mindset has changed the way we live and work and how we run the businesses that serve the economy at large.

In an interview with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster, Christina Riechers, Square Banking’s head of product, said the latest suite of financial products for small businesses, Square Banking, can fill a “gap” in business banking that has bedeviled smaller firms for a

We’re in a frenzy — again. And small businesses are poised to suffer for our panic — again.

The Delta variant is circulating, cases are up. But with three vaccines on the market, and nearly 60 percent of eligible Americans fully vaccinated, the picture is much brighter than the breathless headlines would have us all believe.

COVID hospitalizations and deaths remain low. So-called breakthrough cases among the vaxxed, endlessly hyped by the blue-check media, account for a little over 1 percent of infections and 0.8 percent of deaths.

In short, we have figured out how to contain COVID-19. But it’s hard to let go of paranoia.

Neurotic politicians like Mark Levine, chairman of the City Council’s Health Committee, whip people into a tizzy and demand a return to masking. Levine — who in February 2020 urged Gothamites to join the huge crowds in Chinatown celebrating the Lunar New Year in