3 Steps to Active Listening

Former employment attorney and author Jathan Janove writes for SHRM Online on how to inject greater humanity into HR compliance. He welcomes your questions and suggestions for future columns. Contact him at the e-mail address... Read more »

What Employers Should Know Before Trying a 4-Day Workweek

Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. Despite the gains workers have made through the Covid pandemic in increasing flexibility in... Read more »

Career Lessons from Monique Jefferson

?Like many people who started new jobs mid-pandemic, Monique Jefferson was onboarded remotely when she became the CHRO for New York Public Radio (NYPR) in February 2021. She used that experience to... Read more »

Business Purchaser Can Have Successor Liability for Title VII Claims

?Takeaway: This case illustrates how a business purchaser can have notice of and therefore successor liability for discrimination and retaliation claims that arose before the sale. This case also underscores the importance... Read more »

Short-Term Impairments May Be Covered by the ADA if Sufficiently Severe

?Takeaway: Employers are advised to not assume that an impairment of short duration is not a disability under the ADA, as amended.  ?The definition of “disability” in the Americans with Disabilities Act... Read more »

Ariana Huffington at #SHRM22: Shifting Mental Health Awareness into Action in the Workplace

According to a 2021 report from Indeed, over half (52%) of survey respondents reported that they experienced burnout in 2021 — up from the 43% who said the same in Indeed’s pre-Covid-19... Read more »

Calif. Court Upholds Award of Damages, Attorney Fees in Wage and Hour Case

Takeaway: A failure to keep accurate, detailed records of the time worked by employees will be construed against the employer. An appeals court will not reverse an award of attorney fees in... Read more »

Episode 355: How to Manage Asynchronous Remote Work With Kendra Dixon, Director of Operations for Parabol

I’m hoping that what we’re seeing now is people that are actually experimenting with remote work. Now that we have, like what you mentioned, the work environment of which you want to... Read more »

Thousands of British Workers Begin Trial of 4-Day Workweek

More than 3,300 workers at 70 British companies, ranging from small consultancies to large financial firms, have started working a four-day week with no loss of pay in what organizers of the... Read more »

How to Run a 15-Minute Meeting

?Few people like workplace meetings, from the summer intern right up to the boardroom elite. Case in point: Billionaire Mark Cuban once told Inc. magazine, “The only way you’re getting me for... Read more »
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