While much of the recent focus for business leaders has been coping with the immediate effect of the coronavirus, the emphasis is now shifting to plans for post-pandemic life. This article examines areas that should come under scrutiny as the health crisis subsides, including potential changes to supply chains and accelerating operational and strategic changes.
Finding the right talent requires hard work to locate a diverse field of candidates, and partnerships with employee resource groups and the broader community can help, along with making the application process more accessible, says Lisa Fleury, vice president of talent acquisition for Voya Financial. Understanding the demographics and needs of your employees can also lead to changes in benefit offerings, she says.
5 Best Practices for Remote Recruiting We live in a time of innovative technology and fast change that results in many of us completing our jobs from anywhere. A Guide to Remote Recruiting helps you keep up with the modern workforce with tips on stepping up your remote recruiting game.
States' efforts to provide coronavirus-related workers' compensation benefits to workers other than first responders and health care personnel could create an unprecedented "enormous and unfair burden on workers' compensation insurers," said Robert Hartwig of the University of South Carolina's Risk and Uncertainty Management Center. Such changes could lead to major increases in workers' compensation insurance rates, Hartwig said.
The coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing financial crisis is revealing the character of many organizations -- and their leaders -- and is affecting the cultural expectations of how companies should value their personnel. "Consumers and employees now expect greater things from those organisations that rely on them and pay and working conditions are just the start of it," writes Lauren Coulman.
Books old and new can keep travel bugs eager for the next adventure, such as "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson, about an Appalachian Trail journey, and the character-driven "The Glass Hotel: A Novel" by Emily St. John Mandel. "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell is about his quirky family's adventures after moving to Corfu in Greece -- and is chronicled on PBS' Masterpiece in several seasons of the "The Durrells of Corfu" series.
