Menopause benefits—such as virtual care support and hormone therapy support—are a small but growing workplace trend. Companies including Microsoft, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and pharmaceutical firm Sanofi are among the roughly 4... Read more »
Weis Markets allegedly subjected an employee to sexual harassment and fired her when she refused to comply with an unlawful directive to participate in the company’s employee assistance program (EAP), according to... Read more »
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently charged the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with illegally firing an employee who publicly opposed the company’s return-to-work mandate. X, based in San Francisco,... Read more »
Employees are working more than half an hour less per day than they did a year ago, new research finds—but the shift is generally good news. Data from the ActivTrak Productivity Lab—which... Read more »
?At a tech conference last fall, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced his desire to increase the company’s productivity by 20 percent. Pichai offered an example of how he would accomplish this goal:... Read more »
In 2014, consulting giant KPMG introduced a companywide winter break for its U.S. employees, shutting down offices from just before Christmas through the start of the new year—an idea which, unsurprisingly, was... Read more »
?Women left the workforce in droves during the COVID-19 pandemic. While federal data shows that employment and labor force participation among women have returned to pre-pandemic levels, women have continued to quit... Read more »
?The 2023 SHRMLabs Better Workplaces Challenge Cup competition highlights the most innovative HR technology startups today. Two finalists were selected from over 450 initial submissions. They will make their last pitch to... Read more »
?After becoming widespread due to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote-work arrangements are here to stay in Canada, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based employment lawyer told attendees at a recent conference in Vancouver. “Now that... Read more »
?Pandemic concerns, persistent inflation, burnout and more have wreaked havoc on employee well-being in recent years—but thanks to gains in pay, benefits and work/life balance, workers are actually happier than they have... Read more »
