Workplace wellbeing is a fast-developing subject in employment relations. This qualitative study examined the workplace wellbeing of police during COVID-19. There has been a significant critique of the narrow focus only on individual resilience and stress as the cause of workers' poor mental ...
allowing teams to adjust their space on the fly.The hybrid workplace will also demand new technology—whether it’s reservation systems for conference rooms or desks, or sensors that show how people can more efficiently use space. Offices can now come prepackaged with one user interface, ...
Whether it’s kids or pets that are popping up onscreen during Zoom calls, remote work has caused a relaxation in the traditional rules of professional presentation and resulted in a virtual workplace that is not only more flexible, but also more humane. Whether it’s kids or pets showing ...
Anu Madgavkar, partner at the McKinsey Global Institute based in our Mumbai office, discusses the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on women’s lives and livelihoods in Asia, and the opportunities available if steps are taken to address gender ine
brands prepared to comply with potential government vaccine and testing mandates around employers with 100 or more employees, the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. This was a time-consuming process, filled with uncertainty and ...
These changes in response to COVID-19 have considerable impact on the workplace and employees. Essential personnel (i.e., those working in the essential industries such as healthcare, law enforcement, food and agriculture, and energy) continue to work on-site and they (and their family member...
The COVID-19 crisis has radically changed the way people live and work. While most studies have focused on prevailing negative consequences, potential positive shifts in everyday life have received less attention. Thus, we examined the actual and perceived overall impact of the COVID-19 crisis ...
Depending on where the employee travelled and the nature of the employer’s business, the employee may be returned to work or requested to self-isolate. Whether an employee is paid for that isolation period will depend on where the employee travelled, the nature of the workplace, whether remot...
Before COVID-19, women had slowly been making some progress in the workplace At the beginning of 2020, the representation of women in corporate America was trending—albeit slowly—in the right direction. Between January 2015 and December 2019, the number of women in senior-vice-...
Lucia Rahilly:Our latestWomen in the Workplaceresearch shows that burnout and the burnout gap between women and men has almost doubled since last year’s report, and women who are also people of color are even likelier to suffer chronic stress. How do we se...