Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote meetings have become essential. Different rules apply to video conferencing than in-office meetings, and without the ability to see and hear everyone, your team has to adapt and collaborate to ensure a successful outcome. The advantage (and disadvantage) of virtual m...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a giant spotlight on all businesses and the internal guidance system they follow to care for employees during times of crisis. Some essential workers are refusing to come to work out of fear of contracting the coronavirus. If you want to have a reliable and respectful pa...
One, consider alternatives to Zoom. Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and GoToMeeting.com are among the alternatives to the popular web meeting application. Your requirements may be better met by one of the alternatives. Considerable amounts of document sharing, for example, may make Microsoft Te...
In the United States, several key pieces of legislation protect employee rights. These arose as a result of workers unionizing and agitating for fairer conditions over different periods in modern history. The labor legislation covers several different areas, but they’re all important in ensuring the saf...
Remote work has been around for some time. Giving employees the option to proceed with their normal workday wherever they please provides a host of benefits. It lowers costs, improves retention, supports work-life balance, and enhances productivity – among many others. You may have been toying with the...
Sexual harassment is pervasive in the restaurant industry, according to the Harvard Business Review, which states that “More sexual harassment claims in the U.S. are filed in the restaurant industry than in any other, where as many as 90% of women and 70% of men reportedly experience some form of sexual...
Xenophobia is the “fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.” Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, there have already been numerous reports of people of Chinese descent being discriminated against. Given these unfortunate reports, as well as height...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many companies to a screeching halt and business owner’s hearts racing, trying to figure out how to keep their workforce employed. Although normal productivity and operations have pivoted dramatically, there are areas of your business that can be fortified during...
There are many things businesses are obliged to consider during this current outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19. Some businesses have even shut down voluntarily or been shut down by government decree, while others remain open. For those businesses that remain open, ther...
The policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and job descriptions are the internal guidance system of your company. Operating a business without policies, SOPs, and job descriptions is like attempting to play a new board game without reading the rule book first, leading to confusion, conflict, an...
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the United States, employers may be concerned about how it will affect them. Two areas of concern are what to do on a day-to-day basis to lessen the risk of infection and whether and how to implement a new work-from-home policy. CDC Recommendations...
Dress codes are one of those company standards that are never easy to deal with and seem to get more complicated every day. Terms like “business casual,” or “office casual,” leave room to each employee’s interpretation making it tough to deem what’s inappropriate without it...
