CoAdvantage- Workplace bias is a pernicious problem. According to Statista, 61% of U.S. workers have experienced some form of workplace discrimination, with age discrimination as the most common complaint, followed closely by race- and sex-related discrimination. Part of what makes workplace bias so hard to fight is that many times company workers and leaders simply
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CoAdvantage- In the first part of this series, we talked about how employers can start dealing with the economic downturn now facing the U.S., especially if it continues to get worse. We presented three key tips: re-skill the current workforce, base business decisions on good data, and focus on gaining efficiencies. But there’s another dimension
-> Continue reading How HR Can Help Employers Prepare for an Economic Downturn, Part 2: The Human Element
CoAdvantage- Are U.S. employers about to face a shockwave of litigation from workers and/or customers who have been exposed to the COVID-19 coronavirus through their business? Specifically, if an infected but asymptomatic employee comes to work and infects colleagues or customers, can the newly infected individuals hold the employer liable? This risk is serious. Infections
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CoAdvantage- As one of the most essential and universal employment-related activities, payroll produces a significant amount of documentation, records, and forms. What do employers need to do with this information? Here are the basics of payroll recordkeeping. What payroll records need to be stored? In general, any documentation that relates to payroll calculations or processing
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CoAdvantage- Working from home may be the new normal for many employees, especially white-collar workers, for the foreseeable future. But as beneficial as remote working can be in principle, everyone being forced into it by a pandemic is suboptimal. One study found a 13% boost in productivity from remote working … until it was extended
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The U.S. just had a historic quarterly fall in GDP at a 32.9% annualized rate. That’s worse than even during the Great Depression. According to Bloomberg, U.S. workers filed an additional 1.4 million applications for unemployment insurance in the week ending July 18. That’s double the worst week of the Great Recession. As employers prepare
-> Continue reading How HR Can Help Employers Prepare for an Economic Downturn, Part 1: The Basics
CoAdvantage- Resumés are such a standard part of the job application process that most hiring managers and recruiters intrinsically develop a sixth sense for resumés that are trying to mislead them or otherwise obscure weaknesses in the candidate. But resumés can also begin to run together over time, and resumé reviews can turn into a
-> Continue reading How to Read a Resumé Like Sherlock Holmes
CoAdvantage- In normal years, fall is flu and cold season. Beginning around October, fall and winter conditions tend to facilitate the spread of contagious illnesses. That’s because more people spend more time indoors, and diseases like the flu also seem to favor the cool, dry conditions of winter. This fall is not going to be
-> Continue reading Employers Should Prepare for Autumn and Winter Now: Risk Assessment
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