Commentary: Pay transparency laws could spread | Report: Holiday retail hiring to fall from last year | Salesforce plans hiring as AI drives tech investment
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A new law in New York requires that all but the smallest employers divulge a salary range for their positions in job ads. Kelly Cardin with Ogletree Deakins discusses requirements under the law and notes that pay transparency legislation could spread.
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Growing labor costs and more judicious spending will lead retailers to hire 410,000 seasonal workers for the holidays, almost as low as the number added in the final quarter of the recession in 2008, according to a report. US retailers filled 519,400 jobs in the fourth quarter of 2022, a 26% decrease from Q4 of 2021.
A lack of bereavement support leaves a gap in benefits and costs companies $75 billion a year because of grief's effects on employees, says Ron Gura, co-founder and CEO of a platform that assists workers when they lose loved ones. Gura's platform, Empathy, assigns each employee a care manager, who guides the worker to financial and legal tools as well as support groups or therapists.
Leaders create a sense of psychological safety for their teams by taking responsibility not just for their own actions, but for those of their team instead of blaming others or throwing them under the bus, write Gregg Vanourek and Bob Vanourek. "Leaders who don't get this right will destroy the sense that they're all in this together -- and invite muttering and cynicism to their team," they write.
The record for paid attendance at a women's sporting event was recently broken when the Nebraska Cornhuskers women's varsity volleyball team hosted Omaha Mavericks. How many saw the match live?
Our Recruitment & Retention story today talks about people who want clear lines between work and personal time (splitters) versus those who are comfortable with blending --and moving between -- work and personal time (blenders). I found this interesting because recently it occurred to me that I don’t necessarily do my best work while at my desk for eight consecutive hours. There’s a point at which my brain gets worn out -- so do my eyes -- and I need a break. A long one.
For instance, I edit my briefs in the morning. I read the articles and then the headlines and newsletter summaries, editing them for grammar, spelling, style, factual accuracy and so forth. I’ll often have to take a meeting during this time. I’ll stop the brief, jump onto the meeting, take notes and when it’s over, go back to the briefs. When the briefs are done, I get into project work, which usually includes a heavy dose of research and writing. Meetings take place during this time also.
That’s a lot of moving between tasks that require heavy mental processes. After 4-5 hours of concentrated focus (that includes breaks for coffee, the restroom, etc), my brain is wrung out. My creativity has evaporated and my eyes are no longer catching errors. I don’t just need a walk or a snack. I need a change of scenery -- I need to workout, run errands or sometimes, a nap. My brain needs to fully recharge.
So I don’t know that I fit neatly into the definition of a splitter or blender. I want clear lines between work and personal time. I have hard start and stop times for work. And yet, the nature of my work requires that sometimes I split my day into large chunks of time separated by a long break during which I handle personal tasks. I may work 5-6 hours during the morning and afternoon, then run errands for an hour or so and come back, refreshed, to put in another 2-3 hours of focused work. The split is necessary for my mental engines to operate at their best.
I suppose this makes me a hybrid splitter. Maybe. What about you? Are you a splitter, or blender, or a fusion of both? Let me know! And if you enjoy this brief, tell others so they can benefit also.
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