Adopting a permanent remote work model should not be a foregone conclusion. A recent Gartner survey of 229 HR leaders showed that 41 percent of employees are likely to work remotely at least part-time post-Covid. That's compared with 30 percent of employees who worked remotely at least part-time...
It’s popular to bash meetings and email as unproductive time sinks. By some accounts, pointless or poorly organized meetings cost the global economy billions of dollars a year. Corporate communications apps such as Microsoft Teams and Slack have attracted tens of millions of daily users by...
There's nothing illegal about remotely monitoring your team with software applications. It's how you use them—and what you do with the data—that can get you into trouble. When the coronavirus forced non-essential businesses to close their doors in mid-March, U.S. employers began a sudden...
Does your organization have a one-size-fits-all orientation toward recruiting? Or does it recruit based on an intentionally built recruiting strategy that is part of a larger organization strategy? That you should aim for the latter is fairly indisputable. But how your organizational strategy...
Two new surveys of people forced to go remote show productivity up, yet burnout close behind. Two new surveys show that teams forced into remote work during the pandemic are split on whether they want to continue working remotely going forward. However, in those same surveys, many business...
Employers can consider a multitude of tactics, sources say, from selecting returnees fairly to communicating transparently. As more states and industries begin reopening, employers are also beginning to rehire employees who were involuntarily separated via pandemic-driven workforce reductions. In...
The federal Paycheck Protection Program offers forgivable loans intended to help employers cover up to eight weeks of payroll expenses and other costs. Borrowers that have laid people off can obtain forgiveness, but they’ll need to maintain headcount, which means rehiring those individuals. Firms...
Over the last months, amid school closures, educators have had to quickly adapt their instruction to allow for remote learning. This includes not only those in traditional schools but also after-school enrichment providers that often run STEAM and project-based learning programs for elementary...
Gov. Ron DeSantis is considering the support of legislation that would add further protections to businesses from liability related to the new coronavirus. When Florida’s businesses start to reopen on Monday, questions about worker and customer safety are likely to be among their most pressing...
Recently, a few companies have asked me to help them navigate this tumultuous time for entrepreneurs. Candidly, no one understands the challenges of keeping a company afloat but a business owner who has skin in the game. Of course, that's not to say that other people have zero input in keeping a...
Just examine all the predictions we made during 9/11 and the Great Recession. A deadly global pandemic is a self-evidently world-changing event. But world-changing how? While the coronavirus nightmare is nowhere near resolution, we are awash in predictions about what will come next, how our...
The abrupt shift to working from home means that many of us are rewriting the rules for business communications in real time. As we are figuring out what our new normal looks like, it's reasonable to feel overwhelmed, but it's also important to keep our wits about us and preserve the things we...