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Getting Started with Zoom — and Using It Securely: Some Advice
The coronavirus pandemic has forced a lot of firms to use videoconferencing to “meet” with co-workers and clients. One of the more popular videoconferencing platforms is Zoom. While we can’t cover all the options and settings for Zoom, here is some advice on the best way to use and secure Zoom for...
How the Crisis Will Change the Way We Manage Forever
The implications of the coronavirus pandemic are and will be profound for individuals, organizations, and society at large. One of the casualties few will shed a tear for will be the demise of what can only be described as old-school management practices. In his fabulous video from a few years...
Academic Research Proves 8 Skills Critical to Work-From-Home Success
As the “world’s largest work from home experiment” continues in full force this week, many business leaders are scrambling to put the correct tools in place to ensure effective virtual collaboration within their newly distributed teams. But according to two Canadian professors, software won’t make...
The Remote Workplace: Communicating in an Offsite World
To prevent more cases of COVID-19, many companies this week were told that their employees could no longer come into the office. Everyone who could work from home had to quickly prepare to do so. Are the millions of office workers who have suddenly become remote employees ready for the change?...
Here are the Best Sources of Emergency Funding Available Right Now for Small Businesses Hurt by the Coronavirus
The economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are hitting small businesses especially hard as customers practice social distancing, states enact forced closures, and events get canceled. More than 99% of all American businesses are small businesses, and they employ more than half of the...
Hackers Find New Target as Americans Work from Home During Outbreak
Experts are warning of a new wave of cyberattacks targeting Americans who are forced to work from home during the coronavirus outbreak. There is increasing evidence that hackers are using the concerns over the virus to prey on individuals and that working outside secure office environments opens...
Get this Free Cybersecurity Tech to Cope with Your Coronavirus Chaos
If you’re hunkered down at home because of the coronavirus pandemic and trying to go about your working day without any distractions, you’ll want to avoid being the victim of any attack on your computer or smartphone. Not only do you put your own personal data at risk by failing to take some extra...
What Can Happen to a Company if Coronavirus Sends Every Employee Home
It’s no secret that the way in which business leaders support and enable their employees can have a profound impact on the productivity of a company. In fact, studies show that when employees are highly engaged, they’re 38% more likely to have above-average productivity. Engaging and enabling...
Experts Share Tips to Identify, Hire Best Job Candidates
Hiring employees in the credit and collection industry today has become a delicate balance of making sure the candidate demonstrates that he or she is hungry for the position while also not taking too long to extend a job offer, or risk the candidate taking a job somewhere else. The days of...