As many employers have struggled to motivate remote employees to return to the office, the J.M. Smucker Company has had success by instituting a schedule it had never used before: core weeks.... Read more »
The number of working women with small children is at an all-time high in the U.S., according to a recent analysis of federal data by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.... Read more »
Takeaway: Where an arbitration agreement contained signature blocks for both the employee’s and the employer’s signatures, but the employer never signed it, the employer could not enforce the agreement. An employer... Read more »
Research shows that loneliness is a growing problem for working Americans, and the seismic shift toward working from home may be making the problem worse. The solution for many of these employees... Read more »
Passive-aggressive behavior can hurt company culture and sometimes lead to harassment claims in Canada. This behavior is challenging for HR to investigate and stop. All team members should practice healthy communication, said... Read more »
Employees often cite “poor communication” as a prime reason for their frustration at work. But given the vast and expanding options for communication available to today’s workers, the problem is far from... Read more »
Despite news reports of massive layoffs in some industries earlier this year, the overall rate of staffing cuts has been relatively consistent since 2021, between 0.9 percent and 1.2 percent a month, according to... Read more »
A back-to-school spike in COVID-19 cases is prompting some employers to adopt a back-to-basics approach to disease prevention. At the same time, many employers are imposing return-to-office mandates. Complicating matters are predictions that... Read more »
