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Working from home with kids: 5 ways to help employees

Insperity

Working from home with kids isn’t best practice, but during a prolonged crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, many of your parent employees may find this incredibly demanding scenario unavoidable. Parents who work remotely while schools and daycares are closed must essentially take on an extra full-time job as teacher-caretaker.

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Strategies for remote work-life balance and peace of mind

Insperity

Others are worried that employers are monitoring their work habits via company-issued laptops, email accounts and phones while they work from home, which can fuel a sense of paranoia and the fear that they should be working more. Put your availability in the context of your other work-from-home responsibilities.

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Increase your emotional intelligence while working remotely: 8 tips

Insperity

Tapping into your emotional intelligence while working remotely is vitally important. But it can also be challenging, especially if your team is new to working from home or entered the virtual work world suddenly. When you’re working remotely, self-management becomes critically important.

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4 common-sense reasons to encourage sick employees to stay home

Insperity

Instead of using sick time or paid time off (PTO), your employees who don’t need to be physically present to do their job can work from home if they feel well enough to do so. Stay home when you’re sick and your employees will feel comfortable doing so, too. People will take advantage no matter what.

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8 office etiquette expectations that are now history

Insperity

The fact is that the pandemic changed: The way we work When and where we work How we interact with colleagues What employees value and prioritize Changes in office etiquette As a result, you can also count office etiquette expectations among the changes. It feels foreign and distant now.

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How to retain employees and thrive during the Great Resignation

Insperity

This is why many companies are becoming flexible workplaces , offering such work arrangements as: Options for 100% remote work Hybrid work (employees have demonstrated a willingness to come to the office when it’s justified and the reasoning is communicated well) Flexible schedules Shortened work weeks Flexible or unlimited paid time off (PTO).

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

Paid Time off (PTO) Program : Many companies have some combination of sick time, vacation or family leave time that can be used when employees need to care for a family member. Others might provide assistance in applying for Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA ) time off. .