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LONELINESS IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS

Thrive Global

Loneliness is one of the hardest aspects of being a widow. As a suddenly single individual, we feel isolated and saddened at our new status of being solo. We feel completely and utterly bereft of the loss of the partnership we shared, and are weirdly shocked at the realization that we are no longer a couple. We feel precipitously aware that the world is marching two by two and we are now traipsing a path alone.

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Virtual Team Bonding During COVID-19

Justworks

Let’s just start out by saying the struggle is real. For those who aren’t used to working remotely, cabin fever may be setting in and people are feeling the strain. With that in mind, one of the things we should be relying on right now is connection. As more and more teams are getting acclimated to working remotely, it’s more important than ever to maintain that sense of connection and camaraderie for employees.

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8 Ways to Manage Stress During the COVID-19 Crisis

Fond

As the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded over the past several weeks, the whole world seems to be sharing a mutually bewildered look. We’ve never faced a global health crisis of this scale, and uncertainty — as well as the fear, anxiety, and stress it brings along — runs high. While scientists and medical professionals across the world fight tirelessly to address the threat we’re now faced with, citizens are doing their part to slow the virus’s spread through measures like social dis

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6 Tips for Managing Your Newly Remote Team During Coronavirus

The Muse

If you’re a manager trying to navigate your new role as a remote team leader during the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not alone. Here are six tips to help you successfully manage your team from home.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Temporarily Closing Your Office? 4 Tips for Keeping It Safe

Take It Personel-ly

Your office building is set up to accommodate busy workers, but what happens when you need to close your office down for a few weeks or months? Workplace crime costs billions of dollars each year, and empty offices can be a magnet for thieves. If you need to beef up security while you’re away, consider […].

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How CFOs are ‘planning for the worst, hoping for the best’

HRExecutive

PwC’s new biweekly survey of chief financial officers on the ongoing impact of COVID-19 revealed a markedly different picture than two weeks ago. For instance, 87% report the pandemic is a “great concern” for their business—up 33 percentage points from earlier in the month. About 80% anticipate the fallout from the virus will decrease their revenue or profits, a jump of 22 points.

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Managers: How to Support Remote Employees – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Last week, we provided a list of resources to help individuals get adjusted to working from home. After it was published, I received this note. Dear HR Bartender! I’m a loyal and excited reader of your blog and usually find very great tricks and tips I can experiment with at my workplace. Currently, I work as an HR generalist in a team of 2, taking care of 110 employees.

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Our Commitment to Our Customers and Members on the Frontlines

Linkedin Talent Blog

Around the globe, hospitals and essential services are facing critical talent shortages as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, needing to hire hundreds of thousands of people over the coming weeks and months. At the same time, millions of people – including medical professionals and front line responders – come to LinkedIn every week to search and apply for jobs.

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15Five Launches Updated Manager Soft Skills Training With Worst-Self Academy

15Five

“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” ~ Michael Scott, Dunder Mifflin. Those of us in the tech and innovation space understand that there’s a sweet spot for providing businesses with solutions to their most pressing problems. We call this leading and pacing. Shoot past the market by offering something that customers are not ready for and no one will use it.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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10 Ways to Spread Appreciation During Challenging Times

Achievers

When we face challenging times (in our current case, a global pandemic), it’s important to put an extra spotlight on appreciation and support those around us. William James, American psychologist and philosopher, once said: “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”. Appreciation should be practiced all year-round, and especially during times of change and uncertainty.

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Workhuman Makes its Mission-Critical Life Events and Conversations Products Available to all Organizations in Response to COVID-19 Crisis

WorkHuman

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., and DUBLIN – March 31, 2020 – Workhuman ® , a leading provider of social recognition platforms, today announced it is making special editions of Life Events ® and Conversations ® products free until March 2021 to help mitigate isolation during the COVID-19 disruption. Human moments, including those anchored in an office environment and those focused on the family, don’t stop during times of crisis.

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Considering layoffs? Instead, lead with purpose by exploring every alternative

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

A test of a company’s commitment to leading with purpose is during a crisis. And with the COVID-19 virus threatening people’s health, livelihoods and the global economy, we are facing that crisis now.

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here are your animal coworkers

Ask a Manager

With so many people working from home with animal coworkers, obviously we need to see photos of your new colleagues. When I put out a call for pictures last week, I received more than 450 of them … so I’ve divided them into two separate posts. Here’s part one. Click photos to enlarge. And if you’re reading this from the home page, you have to click through to see the photos.).

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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7 Work From Home Tips To Maximize Your Productivity

Vantage Circle

When you are working from home, you have enough flexibility to do your job. But this luxury can often turn into a missed opportunity if not planned accordingly. They say work from home can be your litmus paper to your productivity. Also, many would argue over the fact that it needs intrinsic motivation to perform your tasks efficiently and deliver at the right time when you are working from home.

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Bersin webinar: Will coronavirus spark the new remote workforce?

HRExecutive

Weeks in, the coronavirus has shifted how CHROs are thinking and leading within their organizations. But through all the challenges, innovations abound as leadership embraces a new now of work. That was one takeaway of a 90-minute webinar Tuesday sponsored by Human Resource Executive and led by global industry analyst and HRE partner Josh Bersin. More than 2,000 people attended.

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5 Key Areas for HR Professionals to Focus on (now and post-Corona)

Digital HR Tech

The current Corona-crisis has hurled us into what we regarded only a few months ago as ‘the future of work’ Suddenly, things like digital transformation and running a business with a fully distributed workforce have become a reality for many organizations. But if we choose to look at the glass as being half full, this ‘new normal’ could speed up some of the changes we’ve seen over the past few years to make HR more effective and drive better business outcomes.

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The 6 top tactics for inspiring your remote team

HR Morning

It’s becoming increasingly clear that many people will be working from home for a significant period of time. It’s also likely many managers will be leading a completely remote team for the first time. This no doubt was thrust on both parties with little time to think, talk or prepare for this new way on working. This will call for managers to operate very differently.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Why empathy is a critical skill for your organisation

HR Zone

Culture Bringing empathy into the workplace.

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Employers Still Hiring During Coronavirus Pandemic

SHRM Resources

When one door closes, even temporarily, another often opens. As people practice social distancing to avoid contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, restaurants, bars and retailers across the U.S. are closing their doors and laying off tens of thousands of workers. But needs must be met, so online sellers and a host of other businesses are mass hiring to secure delivery, security, warehousing and distribution personnel.

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Business as Usual is Gone: Employer Brand in the Time of COVID-19

exaqueo

A crisis is a true test of loyalty, confidence, and the human spirit. Will your brand be positively or negatively remembered for how you treated employees during COVID-19?

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A Few Considerations for Remote “Team Engagement”

Robin Schooling

Even as we grapple, globally, with the containment and fight of the pandemic, there are many lovely things happening as a result of the ‘Rona. One thing I’ve noticed is how my neighbors on Nextdoor are less passive-aggressive and actually being, well, neighborly! No doubt you’ve seen (or maybe even participated in) activities like: Group sing alongs in places ranging from balconies in Italy to neighborhoods in Philadelphia Teddy Bear Hunts for the kids in the neighborhood Kids writing lett

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[Free Templates] Plant the Seed for Successful Onboarding!

Our Free Welcome Email Templates (designed for both in-office or virtual employees) are ready for you to customize and use to plant the seeds of success for new team members.

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Do Good. Be Kind.

Everyday People

How are you holding up? It’s a question we should be asking everyone we know. I’m positive I never thought I’d live to see a situation where all of life as we know it was altered in a matter of days. So, how are you holding up? I think this is more important to know than “how are you doing?” I’m sure even in the midst of all that is occurring we’d give folks a positive nod of “I’m good” whether that was the case or not.

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U.S. Loses 700K Jobs in March, Unemployment Rate Rises to 4.4 Percent

SHRM Resources

U.S. employers reported cutting 701,000 jobs in March, while the nation's unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent from 3.5 percent in February. The worst employment report in a decade is the tip of the iceberg, however.The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey was conducted in mid-March, before many states issued stay-at-home orders and 10 million people filed for unemployment benefits.

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Top 6 FREE Video Interview Software

TalentLyft

Check out the 6 best video interviewing software platforms you can use completely for FREE online! We found the best solutions you can use completely for free and listed their pros and cons. All you have to do is choose your perfect fit! Read More.

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Don’t Let the Shift to Remote Work Sabotage Your Inclusion Initiatives (i4cp login required)

i4cp

Sometimes it’s easy for things to fall off the radar if they aren’t right in front of us. The latest Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) research suggests that may be just what’s happening to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives in a significant number of companies that have shifted to remote work in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. A new pulse survey of D&I leaders found 27% reporting that their organizations have put all or most D&I initiatives on hold because of their respo

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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10 Best Virtual Team Building Activities for Remote Employees

Vantage Circle

The 21st century has bought a lot of changes in our day to day lives, including our work culture as well. The constant evolution in the field of cloud computing has made things easier for us than ever before. Unlike earlier, professionals can now work from anywhere aided by real time collaboration tools. And with the rise of remote workers , the need to employ virtual team building activities have surely gained popularity.

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Everything’s Canceled | A Kid’s Guide to Passing the Time

Degreed

Across the country, millions of families just like yours are adjusting to the new normal. Working moms and dads are now school teachers, coaches, art instructors, and may even find themselves functioning as a referee to break up the occasional fight (so we’ve heard…). Though work-life balance has always been a priority for Degreed, many of us are struggling to strike a new balance amidst all this change.

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5 Tips on How to Work from Home (When Your Significant Other is, too)

ADP

We've all seen the funny memes about couples working from home and inventing fake co-workers to take the blame for bad behavior: "Oh look, 'Sam' left.

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