Human Resources
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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...
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Paylocity acquires video platform companyApr 06, 2020 1:00 am - SCHAUMBURG - HR and payroll software company Paylocity said Monday it has acquired video platform provider VidGrid fro an undisclosed amount. VidGrid enables peer-to-pee...
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As coronavirus spreads, so do reports of companies mistreating workers
Apr 05, 2020 6:21 am - She could wear her protective mask while seeing her patients. Many were, after all, elderly, with respiratory problems, susceptible to getting severely sick from the nov...
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Can my employer force me to go to work during the pandemic?
Apr 05, 2020 6:10 am - A lot of "good guy/bad guy" narratives are emerging about how employers are treating employees during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are a couple of first-person account...
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American parents now have the world's most distracting co-workers
Mar 29, 2020 6:18 am - On Monday, Amanda Goetz found herself stuck alone inside her 1,000-square-foot Manhattan apartment with three kids under 7. The coronavirus had canceled school for her 2...