The Great Resignation is still subsiding very slowly. Millions of workers leaving their jobs every month creates a daily challenge for HR pros to keep their organizations fully staffed. In HRMorning’s “Voices of HR” podcast, consultant Rob Dubin, who works with companies to turn burned out employees into engaged employees, shares his ideas for helping…
Minimizing burnout-related turnover and quiet quitting is still a significant challenge for HR pros. It indicates employee happiness is lacking somehow. Consultant and science of happiness scholar Rob Dubin has been working closely with HR departments struggling with retention in their organizations, and he shared what he’s learned in a new episode of HRMorning’s podcast…
The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) was a monumental legislation, but there is still a great deal of work to be done to close the disability employment gap and ensure equitable employment opportunities for people with disabilities. One way is through the time-tested model of registered apprenticeship. People with disabilities are subjected to the worst…
Did you know that October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)? NDEAM aims to celebrate the contributions of workers with disabilities and emphasizes the importance of inclusive employment policies and practices. The hard truth is that many workers with disabilities still don’t feel like they truly belong. Even when companies strive to make the…
Employee volunteering remains a cornerstone of most Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Yet corporate volunteering programs often don’t achieve the levels of engagement one would hope. According to the latest Chief Executive’s for Corporate Purpose (CECP) Giving in Numbers Report, 89% of surveyed companies had an employee volunteering program, but that same report found that these…
The pandemic was and still is a source of great financial stress for many people. And like we’ve mentioned before, employees who are focused on personal financial problems aren’t focused on their work. So why are we still talking about this? Because financial stress is still taking a toll on employees’ physical and mental health. …
Ask any employer where employee well-being ranks on their priority list, and it will likely be close to the top: one thing we’ve learned from The Great Resignation is that employees’ mental health is deeply linked to retention. Employers are taking this seriously – according to a RAND survey, over 80% of large employers provide…
When the pandemic first began, millions of women exited the workplace in order to handle child care and home responsibilities. In fact, 48% of working women reported the pandemic negatively impacted their careers. This is a major problem many employers have been trying to correct. But finally, some good news on this front. According to…
What happens when a worker’s disability limits the number of hours they can work? In a recent case, a court decided companies aren’t obligated to adjust full-time positions into part-time ones. Job share arrangement Janet Perdue worked as a pharmaceutical sales rep at Sanofi-Aventis in South Carolina. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor,…
