Human Resources
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Three hours longer, the pandemic workday has obliterated work-life balance
May 03, 2020 6:17 am - An executive at JPMorgan Chase gets unapologetic messages from colleagues on nights and weekends, including a notably demanding one on Easter Sunday. A web designer whos...
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What you need to know about going back to work
May 03, 2020 6:13 am - The push to reopen the economy is accelerating. After seven weeks of social distancing and working from home, many Americans are heading back to work - and many employee...
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Analysis: We really weren't ready to work from home
May 03, 2020 6:10 am - Call it teething problems, disorganization or plain Luddism: the first few weeks of working from home were, for many, far from smooth. Set aside for a second the impact ...
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Managers turn to surveillance software, always-on webcams to ensure employees are (really) working from home
May 02, 2020 6:21 am - When the coronavirus shuttered the Kansas headquarters of the High Plains Journal, an agricultural trade paper for farmers and ranchers across the Midwest, digital marke...
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Your questions about the Paycheck Protection Program and furloughs
Apr 26, 2020 6:14 am - Q: My wife works for a day-care business that has been closed by order of the state during the coronavirus pandemic. She was collecting unemployment, including the extra...
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'Scary time' for American middle class as office jobs disappear
Apr 25, 2020 6:25 am - The new year arrived with a new job for Tyler Simon, who had high hopes for 2020. They didn't last long. "Once covid-19 hit, things went from bad to worse really quick,"...
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The post-pandemic workplace will hardly look like the one we left behind
Apr 25, 2020 6:18 am - "Sneeze guard" partitions. "Safe zones" demarcating spots to stand in elevators. Contact tracing apps to detect interactions between co-workers and infrared temperature ...
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Before you forward that 'uplifting' email to homebound colleagues, think again
Apr 19, 2020 6:00 am - If you're lucky enough to be able to do your job remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, you may have been invited to participate in the Women's Leadership Exchange. I...
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Our calendars keep alerting us about canceled events, like ghosts of the lives we would have led
Apr 18, 2020 6:16 am - Laurie Daste and her husband, Craig, couldn't wait to take their son, Rhett, to watch the New Orleans Pelicans. The basketball game, part of a patchwork of events fillin...
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How to maintain culture virtually amid COVID-19Apr 14, 2020 1:00 am - Given the COVID-19 pandemic and mandated stay-at-home ordinances, companies that typically operate in-office had to begin working remotely. For companies that operate in...