Employer Strategies

There's a balance between allowing an employee's freedom to express themselves in conversations with their co-workers while still performing their jobs, says labor and employment attorney Aaron Holt.

D&I initiatives are no longer nice-to-have, but rather vital for organizations to thrive as employees increasingly demand them.

Workplace harassment has moved from the office into the virtual world, leaving employees vulnerable to new harassment avenues.

U.S. employees will now be paid the same, based on high-cost locations like NY or San Francisco, whether they work from those places or not.

Nearly 80% of the 1.1 million workers who dropped out of the workforce in September were women, according to U.S. labor statistics.

Employers can offer several resources and benefits to help reduce the stress and physical and mental health impact on employees who are caring for aging family members.

Creating a poor facsimile of the office — perhaps by lining up a day of back-to-back Zoom calls — isn’t the way to get through this isolated time. That will only remind us of all that we’re missing.

How each presidential candidate tackles workplace-related issues will have long-lasting ripple effects for employers.

“The difference in our whole office, as far as how it looks at voluntary benefits, has totally taken a complete turn,” says Kathy Passantino, area senior vice president at Gallagher, of her colleague Dana Simms.

State retirement plans are about reaching the underserved, not about competing with the private sector, officials say.