Employers have given up. Trying to get people back to the office, that is. According to a panel survey by Perceptyx, the percentage of people working in remote or hybrid roles has stabilized, and so the push for a return to office has ended. This may or may not
Indiana is cutting Medicaid payments to family caregivers. This may seem about as far from a business concern as you could have, but in fact, the opposite is true. Employees who don’t have proper caregivers for their medically complex children will find themselves under tremendous stress and pulled in multiple directions. Jennifer Erp,
Diversity, equity, and inclusion – often shortened to D&I or DEI – spiked as a topic of interest in 2020, especially with the rise of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other movements in the public consciousness. Is it still on everyone’s minds in 2024? To understand how
The other day my friend Susan Brownfield told me about an article she read in the Huffington Post about how women over 50 are invisible. We laughed about this, as we are both over 50 and more visible than we have ever been. In fact, I just had
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You may want to save money on business travel, but please, do not ask your employees to share beds under any circumstances other than a major natural disaster that severely limits available hotel rooms. A TikToker recently reported that her company gave employees the option to share beds with coworkers on a trip. According to
Home Depot has had a rough year. Last June, the company had to pay $72.5 million to compensate employees who were done working but had to wait for a manager to unlock the doors. And now? The National Labor Relations Board ruled that they had to allow an employee to write “BLM” (for Black Lives
DEI. Diversity, equity, and inclusion. Today, many organizations want a strong DEI program to help bring people together and demonstrate that they accept people of all cultures. But the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society recently forgot what those words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mean — to their detriment. It’s a valuable lesson for how
I’m watching a smallish business in its death throes. There are about 50 employees, and I thought they might be able to turn it around, but the entire production team resigned, one after another. I don’t know if they will be able to persuade a couple to stay
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