Category Archives: Human Resources
What We’re Reading – Employers make ‘remarkable’ pivot to virtual hiring
If we all had to admit it, COVID has ushered in some good changes: more remote work and schedule flexibility; new safety and sanitizing practices that may protect us from even the common cold; Zoom-ing has perhaps made us more … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Get Ready for these 4 Changes Coming to the Business World in 2021
We believe 2020 will go down as the Year – if not the eon – of Adaptation. It certainly seems like we’ve lived an eon in just 10 months, doesn’t it? Not only have employees, children, consumers et al adapted, … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Home Care No Longer a Job Seeker’s Market, New Data Suggests
According to Indeed Hiring Lab, home care was a job seeker’s market before the pandemic. The sector’s unemployment rate was “incredibly low,” which left agencies quite challenged in finding and retaining workers whose market advantage encouraged them to job-hop for … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Can HR Ban Politically Focused Face Masks?
This article from HR Executive was eye-catching because we read a related article on how HR should handle political talk in the workplace. Here is that blog. The answer to the question in the title is a yes, HR can … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Inside Citizens Bank’s Unique COVID-era Benefits
Is there anyone who has not been impacted by the COVID crisis? We’d be hard-pressed to find that lucky individual! Everyone else has been – to put it nicely – rocked by the changes to our family life, recreation, health … Read Full Post
Recruitment Challenges – Finding the Right Candidate
As human resource professionals, one of our main job functions is recruitment. Every aspect of our HR responsibility starts with finding the right talent for our company, and significant challenges in that area create a domino effect on our role … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Five Self-care Tips for Physicians in the COVID Era
Physicians have always had stress in their lives but when COVID surfaced, it just seemed to mount higher. We all probably thought at the beginning that this would only affect our lives for a short period of time and then … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – How Should HR Handle Political Talk in the New Workplace?
I think we can all agree that there seems to be less tolerance for diverging viewpoints in our society today, and quick triggers abound on social media as people set each other “straight” on controversial topics. That’s why we were … Read Full Post
COVID-19 & the New School Year
As the new school year commences, employers have already seen an increase in requests for time off under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). For some, the allowed 12 weeks of emergency family leave was already used at the … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Three ways healthcare facilities are rebounding from COVID-19
The pandemic has been stressful for every industry but healthcare has been hard hit for a few reasons: providers still need to treat patients, but some of those patients may be scared to go to the doctor’s office or visit … Read Full Post