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Keeping Staff Engaged While Work-from-Home Drags On
Just a few weeks ago, we, along with businesses and HR observers around the country, were discussing the logistics of bringing staff back to the office as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes and fades away. What a difference a few weeks can make! With COVID resurging in the form of the Delta variant, businesses that had […]
The Importance of Employee Time Off
It can be hard for managers when employees take vacations, as those vacancies, even brief ones, impact productivity and require others to pick up the slack. Time off, though, is critical for employees and can have a positive impact on their mental health, stress levels, and creativity. The Mental Health Benefits of Time Off […]
Leadership Lessons from the Great Communicator
If you are like me and are interested in politics, you know Ronald Reagan was considered the “Great Communicator.” His effectiveness as a communicator was often credited to his career in radio, television, and movies. His detractors often said of his oratory skills, “He’s just up there acting.” But to me, Reagan’s effectiveness as a […]
Drug tests, marijuana use, and the EEOC
by Burton J. Fishman Employers are beginning to comprehend how the widespread availability of medical marijuana will affect the workplace. Newly garbed with medical justification, more workers are claiming a “right” to use marijuana at work. Employers, confronted with a note from the ever-more- aptly-named “Dr. Feelgood” authorizing employees’ use of the drug, are often […]
Legal Immigrant Labor Challenges; How Are Businesses Coping?
I recently sat down with Richard Burke, CEO of Envoy, a company that helps organizations navigate U.S. immigration and secure global work authorizations and business visas.
Expiration Dates: Is It Time to Evaluate Your Current COVID Policies?
Many things have an expiration date—cheese, meat, medicine, and certain fashion choices. But some things linger well past their “use by” date, like three-week old takeout in the very back corner of your refrigerator.
Implementing After-Action Reviews
In a previous article, we discussed the concept of After-Action Reviews (AARs), a military practice that involves extensive analysis of training events after the fact.
The Rubber Meets the Road—Time for Diversity 2.0
It’s 2021. We’re emerging from a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed underrepresented communities and people of color, we’re passing the 1-year anniversary of the biggest racial justice movement in modern American history, and we’re dealing with a labor market in upheaval in a hiring landscape where talent has more power than ever before. […]
No Longer a ‘Pipe Dream’: New York Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
On March 31, Governor Andrew Cuomo took a breather from his “troubles” and signed the Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act of 2021. New York now joins its neighbors Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey in allowing recreational cannabis for use by adults 21 years old and older. Citing “social justice” as a driving force, the governor’s […]