Uber CEO lets employees rewrite culture handbook | Feedback, planning and training help companies retain remote workers | Avoiding loneliness that comes with being a manager
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has taken an unorthodox step in revamping the culture of the beleaguered company: He went to employees for input and ideas. The result is a list of "cultural norms" that urge employees to celebrate differences and to "do the right thing. Period." The Washington Post (tiered subscription model) (11/8)
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Recruiting & Retention
Feedback, planning and training help companies retain remote workers Companies are retaining remote workers by training, offering feedback and creating an action plan. A survey of 1,400 workers showed that 41% of remote employees believed that co-workers talked about them behind their backs, as opposed to 31% of on-site workers. Entrepreneur online (11/6)
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Mental health training helps reduce sick time, study says Training managers on how to deal with employees' mental health issues can reduce the rate of each worker's sick time by an average of 6.5 hours over six months, a study showed. The study looked at Australian fire department employees. Reuters (11/8)
Technology
How to get the most out of HR data Get more value from HR data by creating a center for gathering, organizing and analyzing the information, writes Cameron Kennedy. Bring in analysts from inside or outside the company, and consider having this people analytics team operate outside of HR. HR Zone (U.K.) (11/1)
The HR Leader
Companies can do more to support workers with disabilities, survey says Employers can make better use of job coaches and partnerships with disability groups to hire, train and keep people who have disabilities, a survey says. Such programs and accommodations are considered helpful but are used by only a fraction of companies. Disability Scoop (11/7)
You build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
