Stop Asking Job Candidates for Their Salary History – Harvard Business Review
Companies can take one simple, immediate action to substantially reduce pay disparities for Black and female employees: Stop asking job applicants about prior pay. Salary history bans have been enacted in 14 states during the last three years, and the authors find...
Use of cloud collaboration tools surges and so do attacks – CIO
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed companies to adapt to new government-mandated restrictions on workforce movement around the world. The immediate response has been rapid adoption and integration of cloud services, particularly cloud-based collaboration tools such...
C.E.O.s Pledge to Hire 100,000 Low-Income and Minority New Yorkers
A new nonprofit, the New York Jobs C.E.O. Council, will work with universities, the city and other groups to create new curriculums and apprenticeships over the next decade.A hiring initiative called the New York Jobs C.E.O. Council will be run by Gail O. Mellow, a...
Employers are reconsidering workplace benefits for newly remote workers – Fast Company
Before Teampay was forced to close its Manhattan offices in early March, the company had a lot of the features you’d expect to find at a startup: a healthy snack bar and a much more popular unhealthy snack bar, coffee machines, and comfortable hangout areas where...
As companies accelerate their digital transitions, employees detail a changed workplace – TechCrunch
The U.S.’s COVID-19 caseload continues to set records as major states move to re-shutter their economies in hopes of stemming its spread. For many workers the situation means more time in the home office and less time in their traditional workplace. My colleague Greg...
CORONAVIRUS & WORK
5 tips for remote IT onboarding – CIO
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way we get work done, with employees across the world working remotely. And, while some companies are laying off workers or shuttering their doors, others have found themselves in a hiring pinch, scrambling to recruit and onboard...
Working mothers are paying a career penalty during the COVID crisis. It’s expected to get worse – Fast Company
As any mother can tell you, the coronavirus pandemic has been a brutal slog of work and childcare and housekeeping. Despite early hopes of a great reckoning in gender equity, none has emerged: From February to April, mothers of young children reduced their work hours...
Best Guess on When Business Travel Will Recover? It Could be Years – NYT > Business
Some business travelers are keeping cars up to seven days, compared with less than three days before the pandemic. They are driving distances — like from St. Louis to Chicago — that they previously flew, Mr. Moore said. Recent polls also raise questions about the...
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION
Working mothers are paying a career penalty during the COVID crisis. It’s expected to get worse – Fast Company
As any mother can tell you, the coronavirus pandemic has been a brutal slog of work and childcare and housekeeping. Despite early hopes of a great reckoning in gender equity, none has emerged: From February to April, mothers of young children reduced their work hours...
Stop Asking Job Candidates for Their Salary History – Harvard Business Review
Companies can take one simple, immediate action to substantially reduce pay disparities for Black and female employees: Stop asking job applicants about prior pay. Salary history bans have been enacted in 14 states during the last three years, and the authors find...
Update Your DE&I Playbook – Harvard Business Review
Afton Almaraz/Getty Images White Americans are finally starting to understand that racism is structural. The problem is not just a matter of a few bad apples, and it certainly won’t be solved by a few good conversations. To dismantle structural racism in our...
FUTURE WORKFORCE
5 tips for remote IT onboarding – CIO
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way we get work done, with employees across the world working remotely. And, while some companies are laying off workers or shuttering their doors, others have found themselves in a hiring pinch, scrambling to recruit and onboard...
Estonia – Over half of employers want their workers to continue working remotely (Baltic Course) – Daily News RSS
More than half, or 56%, of employers in Estonia want their employees to continue working remotely over the next few months, reports Baltic Course citing survey data by the Salary Information Agency and the employment portal CVKeskus.ee. Prior to the pandemic, working...
The future of work is human – TechCrunch
Human Ventures builds and invests in what we call the “human needs economy,” which encompasses products and services that address material human problems — specifically those in the areas of health and wellness, the future of work and community. This spring, our...
CULTURE
Working mothers are paying a career penalty during the COVID crisis. It’s expected to get worse – Fast Company
As any mother can tell you, the coronavirus pandemic has been a brutal slog of work and childcare and housekeeping. Despite early hopes of a great reckoning in gender equity, none has emerged: From February to April, mothers of young children reduced their work hours...
Stop Asking Job Candidates for Their Salary History – Harvard Business Review
Companies can take one simple, immediate action to substantially reduce pay disparities for Black and female employees: Stop asking job applicants about prior pay. Salary history bans have been enacted in 14 states during the last three years, and the authors find...
Update Your DE&I Playbook – Harvard Business Review
Afton Almaraz/Getty Images White Americans are finally starting to understand that racism is structural. The problem is not just a matter of a few bad apples, and it certainly won’t be solved by a few good conversations. To dismantle structural racism in our...
PEOPLE@CORE
Stop Asking Job Candidates for Their Salary History – Harvard Business Review
Companies can take one simple, immediate action to substantially reduce pay disparities for Black and female employees: Stop asking job applicants about prior pay. Salary history bans have been enacted in 14 states during the last three years, and the authors find...
Why Your Mentorship Program Isn’t Working – Harvard Business Review
People who have strong mentors accrue host of professional benefits including more rapid advancement, higher salaries, greater organizational commitment, stronger professional identity, and higher satisfaction with both job and career. But marginal or mediocre...
Britain announces raises for 900,000 public workers. – NYT > Business
Nearly 900,000 public workers in Britain, including teachers, doctors and security forces, will receive raises in recognition of the “vital contribution” they have made during the coronavirus pandemic, Britain’s finance ministry announced Tuesday. Salaries for...
Employers are reconsidering workplace benefits for newly remote workers – Fast Company
Before Teampay was forced to close its Manhattan offices in early March, the company had a lot of the features you’d expect to find at a startup: a healthy snack bar and a much more popular unhealthy snack bar, coffee machines, and comfortable hangout areas where...
TECHNOLOGY
Workers Around The World Are Already Being Monitored By Digital Contact Tracing Apps – BuzzFeed News
Imagine you arrive at work. Before you’re allowed to clock in, you have to complete a quiz on your phone that asks if you have any of the symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. If you’re healthy, you get to walk in. Once inside, you go...
Use of cloud collaboration tools surges and so do attacks – CIO
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed companies to adapt to new government-mandated restrictions on workforce movement around the world. The immediate response has been rapid adoption and integration of cloud services, particularly cloud-based collaboration tools such...
Sharp IT budget cuts expected in wake of COVID-19 – CIO
PCs, smartphones and cloud apps are that much more vital for collaboration thanks to workplace lockdowns across the globe, but the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic will see IT spending less on these technologies this year. Gartner and IDC have revised their...
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C.E.O.s Pledge to Hire 100,000 Low-Income and Minority New Yorkers
A new nonprofit, the New York Jobs C.E.O. Council, will work with universities, the city and other groups to create new curriculums and apprenticeships over the next decade.A hiring initiative called the New York Jobs C.E.O. Council will be run by Gail O. Mellow, a...
Zomato Draws Praise for Introducing Period Leave for Employees
Zomato, a global food-delivery company based in India, drew praise for introducing the new policy. Its chief executive says there is no “shame or stigma” in applying for the time off.Zomato’s headquarters in Gurugram, India. The company has 4,000...
Leading into the Post-Covid Recovery
Joe Raedle/Getty Images “Our business is coming back faster than I had ever imagined. That’s really good news, so I should be thrilled. But why am I not feeling relieved?” a senior leader asked me recently When governments relax restrictions and...
MARKET ANALYSTS
Estonia – Over half of employers want their workers to continue working remotely (Baltic Course) – Daily News RSS
More than half, or 56%, of employers in Estonia want their employees to continue working remotely over the next few months, reports Baltic Course citing survey data by the Salary Information Agency and the employment portal CVKeskus.ee. Prior to the pandemic, working...
UK – More work needs to be done for gender diversity in recruitment, study says – Daily News RSS
Almost a third, or 30%, of recruitment firms in the UK have less than 5% female leaders at board level and 32% of firms have between 21-50%, according to an analysis of female representation within the profession by Women in Recruitment, an initiative from the...
Podcast: Namely CEO Larry Dunivan Speaks Openly About Leading an HR Technology ScaleUp Through the COVID-19 Crisis – HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC
HRWins Founder George LaRocque is joined by Larry Dunivan, CEO of Namely, the growing HRIS and payroll provider serving middle-market employers, to discuss leading through the COVID-19 crisis. The result is an incredibly transparent conversation with Larry sharing the...
France – Freelance.com first quarter revenue up 29% despite impact of coronavirus – Daily News RSS
French online staffing platform Freelance.com (EPA: ALFRE) reported revenue today of €69.2 million for the first quarter of 2020 ended 31 March 2020, an increase of 29% when compared to the previous year. The company said its 29% revenue growth, which was its 17th...
