Podcasts

Any HR task that is time-consuming, prone to manual errors or subject to human bias is ripe for automation.

Jay Schmitt, ASA [Associate of the Society of Actuaries], is a principal of Strategic Benefits Advisors, an independent, full-service employee benefits consulting firm that solves benefits issues for clients with 500 to 300,000-plus employees. He has more than 25 years’ experience in benefit plan administration and consulting.

Bosses should do more to make the work-from-home experiment palatable and safe for all involved by subsidizing utility bills and workspace equipment, and changing managerial habits, with more trust given to employees.

Lawrence Calcano is Chairman and CEO of iCapital Network. He began working with iCapital shortly after its 2013 founding to lead key strategic and business development initiatives. Lawrence was a partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he spent 17 years, most recently serving as the co-head of the Global Technology Banking Group of the Investment Banking Division.

Malia Lazu is a lecturer at MIT Sloan Business School and founder of the Urban Labs.

Within the first six months, employees on the spectrum were 48% more productive than their non-spectrum peers who had been at the same job for three to ten years.

Mark Edmondson is president and CEO of Inflo.

Learn how screen time affects vision health and what employees can do to protect their eyes while working from home.

Naomi Snyder is a freelance writer based in Nashville, Tenn.