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Walmart walks back some DE&I commitments, stands firm on employee resource groups

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million US employees, will not renew its five-year commitment to its racial equality center, established after the 2020 murder of George Floyd, the company first confirmed to the Associated Press. What’s changed. Walmart, which has 1.6 Roughly 70% of the company’s corporate workforce is white, according to its most recent belonging report.

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Microsoft cuts some of its DE&I staff

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True systems change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020,” they wrote, before arguing that all corporate DE&I initiatives are at risk due to conservative political agendas, IGN reported. Microsoft would not disclose how many employees were impacted by the layoffs.

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Employers can help keep caregivers in the workforce, experts say

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Employees additionally have access to a parent and caregiver employee resource group with 25,000 global members, the company’s second largest. Denise Lowsley, EVP & CHRO at Hanover Insurance CHRO, wanted to ensure the company retained caregiver employees as Covid-19 took hold in 2020 and put added stress on caregivers. “As

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World of HR: Dubai makes a right turn toward remote work to reduce traffic

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Dubai’s population has exploded in recent years, growing by 400,000 since 2020 to 3.8 The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority, and Dubai Government Human Resources Department, released a report in November examining flexible hours for 332,000 public and private sector workers. million in 2024.

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Do Outplacement Companies still have a role in 2020?

Given that we all know there’s no such thing as a job for life anymore, and the fact that millennials are particularly likely to switch jobs, is there still any need for specialist outplacement support?

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Ford becomes the latest company to walk back DE&I commitments

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The company also said it would change its employee resource groups (ERGs) by opening them to all employees. On August 28, Ford told employees it would no longer participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) workplace equality index, USA Today reported. Ford declined to respond to HR Brew’s request for comment about the changes. “By

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Why CHROs have the “second-hardest job in the C-suite”

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Thats slightly longer than in 2023, but shorter than 2020, when it was about five and a half years. HR is so closely aligned with AI in the workplace that some experts expect a hybrid C-suite role to emerge in the coming years, perhaps coined as the chief human and AI resources officer, HR Brew recently reported.

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Good Crisis Communication is Essential for Productivity During the Coronavirus Situation

You will find insights provided by the 123,000 employees who responded to Effectory's COVID-19 Workforce Pulse surveys between late March and June 2020 answers on topics such as performance during COVID-19 and crisis management.

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FLSA Deconstructed: Step-by-Step Compliance

With the DOL's final overtime rule effective January 1, 2020, employers should review both existing FLSA rules and the new requirements and implement any necessary changes to comply. Read this white paper for five things every employer needs to know.

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We Should All Want Great Leaders, Millennial or Not

Speaker: Jazmine Wilkes, Human Resources Generalist, SEA Wire and Cable, Inc.

Join Jazmine Wilkes, Creator of HRJazzy.Blog and Human Resources Generalist, to find out more! March 5, 2020 12:30 PM PST, 3:30 PM EST, 8:30 PM GMT In this webinar you will learn: How retaining employees starts with their personal motivations. Why millennials should not be treated differently in the workplace.

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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. How can we lead the VUCA world in the 21st century?

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The 2020 Interview Gap Report

In the 2020 Interview Gap report, Karat and The Harris Poll explore how COVID-19 has changed the developer hiring landscape and look at what the most successful companies are doing to improve technical hiring.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond. Database benchmarks for education and resource prioritization. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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HR Workplace Trends: Collaboration in the Remote Era

The concept of a workplace is considerably different than it was in early 2020. While workspaces for many have changed and adapted since 2020, the one constant across all teams has been the need to continue collaborating, communicating, and working together toward common goals.

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The Time is Now- How to Use AI to Maximize HR

Speaker: Sonia Mathai, Chief Human Resources Officer, Globality

Join Sonia Mathai, Chief Human Resources Officer of Globality, and learn how AI can enhance and advance your company. In this webinar, you will learn: Best practices of using AI in HR How to best integrate HR into your ecosystem How AI can support HR in times of crisis August 11th 2020, 12:30 PM PST, 3:30 PM EST, 7:30 PM GMT