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Hot dog chain Portillo’s staffs its restaurants with corporate employees during the holiday season

HR Brew

Home Depot, for example, requires its corporate employees to work one 8-hour retail shift per quarter, Bloomberg reported. It has required its roughly 140 corporate employees to work in its restaurants during the holiday season since 2020, CPO Jill Waite, told HR Brew. Employee experiences.

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As some companies publicly back away from DE&I, Amazon quietly stands firm

HR Brew

It noted, for example, that Amazon should expand the language options for its hiring process beyond only English and Spanish. By the end of 2023, men accounted for 73% of senior leaders in the US, down slightly from 77% in 2020. It has also promoted career advancement opportunities and product offerings for disabled people.

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HR is still navigating RTO, nearly five years after the pandemic began

HR Brew

Covid-era workplace flexibility started waning in the summer of 2020, and some employees rejected RTO plans. When Amazon announced its five-day RTO, in the name of “strengthening our culture and teams,” some experts called CEO Andy Jassy’s decision an example of a phenomenon called “executive nostalgia,” Bloomberg reported.

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Legislative lowdown: Colorado extends leave for parents with children in the NICU

HR Brew

The state’s paid family leave law went into effect last year after it was passed via ballot initiative in 2020. New York, for example, now requires employers to offer 20 hours of paid prenatal leave to pregnant workers annually. Starting Jan.

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How a Counseling Culture Can Help Leaders Lead with Empathy

Speaker: Jennifer Cameron, CEO, and Kaleem Clarkson, COO, of Blend Me Inc.

The year 2020 will certainly go down in the books as a controversy-filled year due to so much adversity around issues. Some examples are the Black Lives Matters movement to end racism and social injustices, the raging wildfires on the U.S. December 9, 2020 at 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST, 7:00 pm GMT million people.

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Why employers are leaning into benefits to stand out in the job market

HR Brew

Some 59% of US job postings advertised at least one employer-provided benefit as of May, according to the analysis, up from less than 40% in early 2020. The gig economy offers one example of how this trend is playing out, as some companies tout certain benefits for workers who don’t typically receive such perks through their jobs.

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Yelp increased employee tenure by over a year after taking these three steps

HR Brew

Yelp, like many companies, pivoted to remote work at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. When I could interview for this [open role], it was another example of something I’d done outside of my day to day role to help the company,” she said. Flexible work. That helped me as I was building that internal résumé.

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Leading the VUCA World with Empathy, Humility & Inclusivity

This crisis is just the latest example of the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) world we are living in—a world that has presented us with the 911 terrorist attacks, the 2008 eco­nomic crisis, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing systemic injustice.

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Virtual Onboarding: The 5 Keys to Success

Speaker: Kate Pavlina, HR Business Partner at Amazon, and Jon-Paul Jaramillo, Talent Acquisition Manager at Sundt

2020 made virtual onboarding our new reality. This webinar combines years of research with real-life examples to uncover a tried-and-tested framework for virtual onboarding. What was initially seen as a band-aid solution, is quickly becoming a permanent part of the new world of work. So how do we get it right?

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Implementing Technology in TA for the Win: An Agile Approach

Speaker: Denise Dresler, Director of Talent Acquisition, Avature

In this webinar, you will learn: Why you might consider going agile in your TA department; How you can take an agile approach to implementing TA technology; Specific examples of implementing technology in TA in an agile way; What we have learned from being agile in TA; And more! January 15, 2020 9:30 AM PST, 12:30 PM EST, 5:30 PM GMT

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Recruitment Marketing: More Than Revamping Your Career Sites

Speaker: Matt Alder, Host & Producer, The Recruiting Future Podcast.

March 4, 2020 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM EST, 4:00 PM GMT