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Sexual harassment is not an easy topic, and with the advent of most employees working from home, it has taken on a new dimension of difficulty. Identifying it with concrete evidence is sometimes a feeling you get because you know the other person's behavior or comment was not appropriate. Still, the question is, was it sexual harassment.    Keep in mind that sexual harassment does not always occur...

Working with virtual assistants can be a great benefit to organizations of all sizes and industries, and especially useful for start-up companies and small businesses looking to grow. Using virtual assistants can take many burdens off of a business owner and can do it in an economical way. Often, business owners will take on the tasks and duties associated with all aspects of their business leavin...

HR is navigating endless changes right now, including how to best advise and equip employees with the savings and financial planning they need. What's different: we're not face to face. The tools and information need to be online — and in a platform that makes sense, offers simple and clear navigating, and presents the best savings opportunities there are. Employees are under enough pressure as it...

Reflektive's new report on performance management shows like every other aspect of how we work, there are major changes afoot. The 2020 Performance Management Benchmark Report, as it's called, is hot off the presses. It surveyed over  1,000+ HR professionals, business leaders and employees, on the state of performance management, including trends, employee needs, and sentiment about the future.  J...

The pandemic has thrown a curve ball to many people in the workplace. What was once normal is now the old way of doing things. The new normal came quickly and it didn't give people a chance to catch up. Many employees were faced with working from home or someplace else that is not optimal for many reasons. Some find the noise distracting, the workspace inadequate, the routine disruptive or the tec...

You've worked hard to create an engaged, loyal workforce. Then 2020 hits. Overnight we are sent to at-home workspaces working in physical isolation. We balance the stresses of health and wellbeing with maintaining performance in our jobs. Civil unrest has quickly heightened emotions and anxiety. All this and we're barely past the mid-year mark. In a work world where our teams are distributed physi...

Before COVID-19 one of the most popular ongoing discussions at #WorkTrends was about the gig economy — which was already breaking open the traditional 9-5 model of working and shifting the perspective from payroll to project. Coworking, freelancing, independent contractors — we were looking at generational preferences and realizing that it was highly likely that we would not be bringing talent int...

There's so much uncertainty about what will happen to the workplace — whether we will wind up staying remote or mixing it up, or be able to return to a physical workspace. Will it be safe, will it be a best practice? There are a lot of questions facing us and we're not going to have the answers for a while now, given what's happening in the country with COVID-19.    Against this backdrop, we still...

The Supreme Court recently handed down a landmark Federal civil rights law that protects gay, lesbian and transgender workers from workplace discrimination based on sex, including gender identity and sexual orientation. The ruling extends protections to millions of workers nationwide, and it's an incredible victory for inclusiveness and diversity. But on a day to day level, we have a lot of work t...

Leaders today are grappling with very real and pressing challenges: keeping their workforce safe, balancing the need for business results with the need for compassion, staying ahead of new laws and regulations, grappling with whether or not to reopen and how to do it safely. As they put their hearts and minds into how to improve their work cultures on a very fundamental level, two factors to keep...

As hiring kicks back into gear with companies rebuilding workforces, adding new employees, and shifting gears to meet the needs of reopening and ramping up business, here's the question. Are you getting the results you need to get from your hiring technology? And: Are you getting lots of leads from third party job postings, or reducing time to hire? Are you meeting your diversity goals? Does your...

Leading through a crisis used to be part of the conversation but now, in these times, it is the conversation. We're in a health crisis, an economic crisis, and also a social crisis — and all are having a heavy impact on our workforces. And these strategies apply to any crisis — hopefully they won't be as mammoth as what we're facing as of late.    The good news is that if leaders take the right ap...

What's happening today has thrown lives and work into turmoil, but we've never adapted more quickly. What's enabling some businesses to pivot in record time is being grounded in the technology needed to keep the workflow going, and the people who possess the digital skills to make it happen.    Digital skills were in high demand before Covid-19, part of the digital transformation some call Work 4....

On a granular level, work cultures are made of relationships, and relationships are made of interactions. Every interaction we make has the opportunity to benefit our relationships or potentially cause damage. In work, where relationships are the backbone of collaboration, productivity, engagement and teamwork, interactions are important to get right.    But it's not always that easy, or that simp...

What is wellness? The definition has been thrust into high contrast by COVID-19 and our changing work landscape. Working remotely or not, employers tending to employee well-being are finding themselves at the cutting edge of employee experience when their wellness offerings fit the needs and lives of their people.    At #WorkTrends we're looking at some of the companies who are focusing on wellnes...

Work is all about relationships — you and your boss, you and your managers, you and your teammates, you and your direct reports, and everyone else. Every single one of the relationships we have at work (as well as everywhere) has to be carefully managed, or it can go south fast. At work, compound that need to manage your relationships with the pressure of the workflow, and there's little margin fo...

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered intense economic and social disruption and it's far from over. And our work landscape has changed and will continue to evolve. For businesses, steering through COVID-19 and navigating this new work landscape requires savvy and careful strategizing. More than ever, HR is playing a critical role. And you need the best information you can right now — from managing...

Right now organizations are seeing their mettle tested and one thing that's helping them keep their workforces aligned, engaged and supported is a great company culture. We're going to talk with organizational culture expert Josh Levine about what makes a company culture matter now — such as how leaders play a key role, and why being there for your people may also mean shifting priorities for the...

The world of work is in the midst of a reckoning. From finance to retail to hospitals to energy to technology, there's not one sector that has not felt an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic of its toll on the economy . But we're evolving, and quickly. Weeks in, many organizations are past that sudden pivot to remote teams and are now stepping back from doing triage to think about what's truly importa...

On today's #WorkTrends podcast we're talking about the skills our workforce will need for the future — and why we need them now. The skills we're going to need to achieve in the workplace of the future have everything to do with attributes, behaviors, habits and mindset that support collaboration, creativity and innovation, and empathy. And the new workforce is trending to high-performing, sometim...

As younger-gen (I'm not saying young gen intentionally) and Next Gen hires come into organizations and show their incredible aptitude and promise, we're certainly justified in wanting to reward them and promote them. Continuity is on our minds right now as we search for the light at the end of the tunnel of this current crisis — and look for how we're going to sustain our organizations for the fut...

Even right now, even with everything, we need to amp up our workplaces like never before. Culture keeps us together — but you can't create a great culture if you're not leading like a rockstar, and treating your employees like MVPs. So many organizations are morphing right now into remote and fragmented workforces — by necessity. But we're really looking for the glue that will keep us together. Te...

Business readiness has taken on a whole new meaning right now as we grapple with an absolutely massive upheaval facing our lives as well as our work. Even a month ago we were discussing the importance of digital workspaces and remote capabilities as a key item on the wish list. Today it's a necessity. We need to provide a structure for our employees to do their best work no matter where they are....

Today internal communication is transforming right before our eyes and ears. It's getting a powerful boost from new technologies such as AI, augmented and virtual realities, and changing not only what we say but how we say it. The future of communication — even how we reach out to each other — and everyone in our organizations — is going to see rapid growth and radical improvements. In fact we're...

Today's #WorkTrends podcast is about partnering Marketing and HR for phenomenal talent strategies. It's a powerful alchemy that happens when Marketing and HR teams align to attract, engage and retain talent. We've all seen an expansion in scope and role of both the Chief Culture and Talent Officer: both roles are increasingly held accountable for strategic business growth — but we haven't always h...