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2021 crystal ball: HR trends to prepare for

11/24/2020
While there’s light on the COVID horizon, uncertainty won’t be tossed out with the 2020 calendar. In the coming year, HR departments will need to continue to adapt to changing health, economic and social conditions. Here are seven key trends to prepare for.

CDC research: Telecommuting really does help prevent covid-19

11/24/2020
Employees who worked exclusively in an office setting between March and July 2020 were twice as likely to contract covid-19 as those who worked from home.

Snapshot: What employers are doing to promote coronavirus safety

11/24/2020
Most employers have implemented these measures to ensure employee safety as the coronavirus pandemic continues.

New work to require critical thinking, stress tolerance

11/24/2020
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating an evolution in the kinds of skills in-demand workers bring to potential employers, according to new research by the World Economic Forum.

3 strategies to ease post-covid return to work

11/24/2020
As coronavirus vaccines start to appear as hopeful glimmers on the pandemic horizon, employers and employees alike have begun contemplating how the post-covid workplace will work.

OSHA’s COVID crackdown tool: ‘General Duty Clause’

11/19/2020
You may be surprised to learn that while OSHA has a lot to say about workplace safety during the pandemic, the agency lacks any specific standards covering infectious diseases or viral prevention at work. Instead, OSHA exercises its COVID-19 authority under what’s known as its “General Duty Clause.”

OSHA issues COVID workplace ventilation guide

11/19/2020
Effective ventilation is just one tool in your organization’s effort to mitigate coronavirus in your workplace.

Expect pressure to relax grooming standards

11/19/2020
United Parcel Service, with 525,000 employees, just became one of the largest employers to embrace more relaxed grooming standards. The change comes as more locales enact laws based on model legislation known as the Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair Act.

U.S. employers outpace foreign firms on coronavirus

11/19/2020
For example, 64% of U.S. employers say they provide personal protective equipment for all employees, compared to an average of 48% of employers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Thanksgiving during the pandemic: Leave and workplace safety issues

11/16/2020
There are some things you need to be aware of for the impending holiday season.