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How Do You Stay Connected with Coworkers While Working From Home?

Best Money Moves

How do you stay connected with coworkers while working from home? Effective communication while working from home is key to keeping the team on track. How Do You Stay Connected with Coworkers While Working From Home? Coronavirus 2020: Effectively Working from Home.

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A Guide to Conquering Loneliness at Work

HR Digest

The new work culture that the pandemic has thrown up is the widespread acceptance of work-from-home option by a large number of companies. They would prefer the employees to continue working from home with the occasional meet-up in office to work out any major issues that need to be handled in person.

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Back to basics: FLSA issues during the coronavirus crisis

Business Management Daily

So if you send them home and they’re not working, you don’t have to pay them. If nonexempts are working from home, you need a way to track their time. Telecommuting is tricky since employees’ managers aren’t around to keep an eye on their working time. What about reducing their work hours and weekly pay?

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Rethinking Digital Transformation: An Interview With Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

HR Digest

We had invested in digital collaboration tools before the pandemic and were able to adapt quickly to new ways of working for Support Office colleagues who have been working from home. . Previously, she served as Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources of Kellogg Company from July 2005 to December 2009.

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Do Your Employees Feel Alive?

Empuls

On January 15, 2009, shortly after lifting off from LaGuardia Airport, US Airways Flight 1549 struck a gaggle of geese. When in New York I rarely miss traveling down to the river Hudson and walk the stretch of the river which saw the strangest of sights of a commercial plane being flawlessly landed on its icy surface.

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reviewing work from home policies.

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Learning the Ropes: How to Prevent Data Theft by Employees

HR Digest

Ensure the access details are updated regularly and those who should no longer have access to documents are regularly removed from the access list. Often, employees who leave a company are still left with access codes that haven’t been updated since 2009, giving them room to draw from sensitive data that is no longer relevant to them.