Tag: workplace

July 10, 2020

Employee empowerment is a management philosophy that emphasizes the importance of giving employees the autonomy, resources and support they need to act independently and be held accountable for the decisions they make. Employee empowerment can have a significant impact on […]

July 10, 2020

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released guidance to assist nonessential businesses as they reopen and return employees to the workplace. OSHA is charged with ensuring employers provide safe and healthful workplaces for their employees by setting […]

July 6, 2020

Even though an employee and employer entered into an agreement to arbitrate employment disputes, the employer’s participation in proceedings before the California Labor Commissioner constituted a waiver of the employer’s right to compel arbitration of the employee’s claim against it, […]

July 2, 2020

Earlier in June, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new guidance concerning the use of COVID-19 antibody testing. Relying on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) interim guidelines, the EEOC affirmatively stated employers cannot require COVID-19 antibody […]

July 1, 2020

In any organization, there is information that should not or cannot be shared liberally. It could be information about private personnel matters, sensitive financial data, or trade secret information, for example. In other instances, there might be information that isn’t […]

July 1, 2020

The global response to George Floyd’s tragic and shocking death and other recent acts of injustice (including those involving Ahmaud Arbery, Christian Cooper, Breonna Taylor, and Nina Pop, among others) and the ensuing protests and riots amid the COVID-19 economic […]

June 23, 2020

Did you know that people who feel valued and appreciated will literally spend their time trying to figure out how to make your organization better? Pretty crazy, huh? Given how most leaders act, this is apparently a revolutionary thought. When […]

June 5, 2020

In the early 2000s, a fast-growing e-commerce company created a centralized compute and storage capability so its new business units would not have to build their own. It was designed for internal use, but the company realized that the extra […]

June 4, 2020

The findings of a recent survey of more than 3,300 employees could spell the end for the physical office. Results from the Remote Workforce Report, conducted by the Best Practice Institute (BPI), an award-winning leadership development center and think tank, […]

May 19, 2020

When COVID-19 hit our economy, workplaces were focused on reacting and responding (often in real time) to address and mitigate the fallout to their business and workforce. The toll on both has been substantial. Every workplace and every worker has […]