I’ve spent the greater part of my career analyzing, researching, and reporting on organizational culture and their well-being strategies. It took me a few years to realize that we’re getting it all wrong. Despite good intentions, wellness programming often looks more like we’re bailing people out of the water downstream rather than preventing them from falling in upstream.
This understanding led me to investigate what really detracts from our well-being. I found that if we aren’t identifying the root causes of chronic stress and burnout, wellness perks make little to no impact. A costly miscalculation for many global firms.
The Biden administration on Monday said it is backing a bill that could give millions of new mothers more workplace rights when they pump breast milk.
A U.S. House of Representatives bill cosponsored by both Democrats and Republicans would, if passed and signed into law, require employers with 25 or more workers to provide time and private space for nursing mothers.
One of the biggest challenges that managers and leaders face is recruiting and retaining the right person at the right time for the right job. Hiring the right person is tough.
Creating a thriving workplace is a business advantage and can help recruit and retain top talent. In this new era of Big Data, leaders have more access to sophisticated assessments, data, and software, providing the organization or industry with detailed insights into human behavior. Access to this type of data becomes a competitive advantage when it is turned into information to make better business decisions, and this applies to hiring decisions as well.
A union of 24,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other workers who say they're understaffed and facing a revamped pay system that would fuel more shortages announced their bargaining team will vote next month to authorize a strike if needed.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has informed its employees that the insurance provider now is eyeing a phased return-to-office in January, with new requirements around COVID-19 vaccinations and testing.
The two departures come shortly after a series of investigative reports by NBC Bay Area exposing severe staffing shortages, patient care problems and allegations of blatant lack of care.