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How a Google accommodations leader’s ‘disability journey’ led her to push corporate America to rethink disability inclusion

HR Brew

After holding several roles in departments including sales and marketing at Google, while also running her own HR consultancy, she transitioned into HR in 2021 before landing her current role, where she supports disabled employees with workplace accommodations, in 2023. At that time, the reason I was advocating for it was for myself.

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Lawsuit: Employees Not Paying for Pre-Shift Covid Screening

Evil HR Lady

For the past year, employers have been regularly screening employees for fevers and other Covid-19 symptoms. I’ve said that while I wasn’t sure of the legality of not paying (and looked at an Amazon court case where the Supreme Court said they didn’t have to pay for security screening ), but I was sure of the morality.

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2021 Was the Biggest Year Yet for HR Tech: See 30+ of the Top M&A Activities

Lighthouse

When you juxtapose that with the fact that 2021 was the biggest year ever for the HR technology market in terms of investment, we just couldn’t go without sharing the biggest pieces of the last 12 months and highlighting a few for their specific value. Key 2021 HR Technology Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Cisive Insights: Talent Screening Trends in a Global Pandemic (A Benchmark Report)

Cisive

A year of unprecedented challenges resulting from the global pandemic has dramatically shifted how we all attract, hire, screen, and onboard new talent. We asked employers how their workforces changed, and what challenges they faced, from January 2020 to January 2021. THOROUGH BACKGROUND SCREENING IN A SHIFTING WORKFORCE.

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COVID & the Future of Work: Insights from Paycor’s C-Suite

An economic contraction that might extend through 2021. On-site workers faced with temperature checks and health screenings. In just a few months, everything changed: 30 million unemployed and counting. Remote employees juggling work and family under the same roof.

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2024 HR Tech M&A Activity: A Year of Resilience and Growth

Lighthouse

See our previous editions: 2023 recap 2022 recap 2021 recap Key 2024 HR Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Some of the more notable M&A activities we’ve looked at over the last year: Talent Acquisition JobGet acquired one of the longstanding frontline hiring job boards, Snagajob. Like this post?

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2022 Was Another Record Year for HR Tech: See 20+ M&A Activities that Shaped the Market

Lighthouse

Last year one of our most popular posts on the blog was a recap of some of the 2021 M&A activities across the HR Tech landscape. We saw some of this in 2021, more in 2022, and we expect it to continue into 2023. This is a way to make legacy technology smarter and more competitive with newer technologies entering the market.