How to hold people constructively accountable | Charmin app allows virtual meeting breaks to go unnoticed | Employers want employees to be vaccinated, survey says
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Instead of focusing on being nice at work, focus on being kind, which will push you to speak up at meetings and be seen as competent. "It really doesn't matter whether your coworkers like you. It matters that they respect you and that you have a good working relationship with them," writes Vanessa Wasche, owner of On Point Speaking.
To take the awkward out of meetings designed to hold team members accountable, use a five-step approach for a constructive conversation that will help all parties succeed, suggests business consultant Michael Canic. Clearly state the purpose of the meeting, be curious -- not judgmental -- and emphasize your own sense of responsibility for the situation, he writes.
Charmin has developed the BRB Bot, an artificial-intelligence-driven app prototype that creates a digital twin of people who need to escape a Zoom meeting for a bathroom break. Although Charmin does not plan to release the app for general use, the brand has released a tutorial for the app.
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Most employers plan on requiring at least some workers to be vaccinated, while smaller percentages will impose restrictions or penalties on unvaccinated employees, according to a survey by Arizona State University and the Rockefeller Foundation. Incentives are also a popular tactic for employers.
Manufacturers are struggling to find employees to fill 570,000 open skilled and entry-level jobs, and the skills gap could leave 2.1 million positions unfilled through the rest of this decade, affecting production, revenue and ultimately growth, according to a report by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute. "A robot can pick up a box and move it, but a person can be creative and get ahead of what's coming," says Carolyn Lee, executive director of The Manufacturing Institute.
Mother's Equal Pay Day is May 5, and analysis by the National Women's Law Center shows full-time, year-round working moms earn $0.75 for every $1 earned by working dads, representing an annual pay loss of more than $15,000. The disparity worsens for Latina working moms at $0.46 and Black working moms at $0.52.
Forget diplomacy, a farmer simply said, "Border, schmorder ... If your border is in the way of my tractor, I'm moving it!" Don't worry, the border was returned to its proper place.
