4 Day Week advocates Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart discuss explain how to boost productivity and employee loyalty by giving people back their time.
Category: Work and Life
The world is beginning to emerge from quarantine. Many workers have been remote for months. As things open up, how is work shifting at home?
Dennis Miller, AVP of HR for the Claremont Colleges, shares tips to care for Gen Z mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social distancing is, hopefully, working to reduce the number of people who will get seriously ill and die from COVID-19. But it's going to need to go on a lot longer. The isolation, essential as it may be, may have mental health consequences worse than the physical threat. With no end in sight, we working parents are exhausted, beleaguered, and at times hysterical.
Here we review US research we conducted in 2019 to understand how organizations can better support their employees in weathering the storm - whether that is a literal weather event or other major disruptors such as the unfolding natural disaster we're experiencing globally with COVID-19.
Nurses are unique individuals; I know because I am one. As I reflect on the global condition and consider the millions of nurses involved in the care of others I am struck by the bravery, knowledge, skills, and ability of my colleagues that care directly for patients and residents daily.
Kronos VP of Global Workspace Solutions Jon Proffitt joins a panel discussion of managing uncertainty during the time of COVID-19.
Even when we know the truth, it may not change our behavior. This is largely due to prioritization. We weigh, often unconsciously, the trade-off of changing behavior or staying the same based on what is in it for us. Combine an irrational sense of our own strengths and infallibility, and we often do not change when we should.
In this podcast, Neil Reichenberg, Workforce Institute board member and the longtime executive director of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources, shares his expertise on how to provide flexibility for jobs requiring presence.
17.5 million American workers will reportedly miss work the day after Super Bowl LIV – making Monday, Feb. 3, the largest-ever anticipated day of Super Bowl Fever since The Workforce Institute at Kronos began tracking this phenomenon in 2005.
Our research says 72% of American workers would like access to their wages before payday, but only 6% have that access. 53% of workers experience stress at work due to financial problems. What can employers due to ease this stress?
In this lively tweet chat, HR luminaries discuss what it means - and what it takes - to create a better working environment for ALL employees.