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Small Firms Consider HR Role in Fully Remote Environment
Many small IT firms that let their office leases expire and switched to remote work are looking at new ways to enrich their employees’ work experience—usually over Zoom and Slack…
Pandemic Provides Opportunity for Stretching into New Careers
Taking on “side hustles”—second jobs to make money alongside one’s main job—was a growing trend before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the labor market. Since then, data shows that the unstable…
How Will Evolving Marijuana Laws Impact the Workplace in 2021?
President-elect Joe Biden supports marijuana decriminalization, but efforts to legalize cannabis consumption are likely to continue at the state level. In 2021,
Building Resilience: Helping Workers Handle Stress for the Long Haul
Resiliency is also sorely needed in the workplace, especially in these times of uncertainty, anxiety and economic worries amid the pandemic. Resiliency isn't the same as stress management
Annual Performance Review Bows Out
Many companies are eager to ditch the end-of-year performance review that can produce nail-biting anxiety for managers and workers alike, without much improvement in performance. Here are examples of how…
Employees Adjust to Telecommuting in the Middle East and North Africa
Companies, governments and employees throughout the Middle East and North Africa are trying to adapt to remote work
Run Better Meetings: How to Manage ‘Over-Sharers’ and ‘Silent Types’
As any manager knows, every meeting is likely to attract a range of personalities. The two personalities posing the most risk to a successful meeting? The over-sharer and the stone-silent…
Entirety of Sales Agreement Was Not Relevant to Union Representation
The National Labor Relations Board erred in ordering an employer to produce the entirety of its business sale agreement in response to an information request from a labor union representing…
Voluntary Transfer Was Not Discriminatory
An employee with multiple sclerosis who agreed to transfer to a position with greater teleworking opportunities to settle her disability discrimination claim did not show she was targeted for discrimination…