In the nearly 18 months since the pandemic first forced companies to send their employees to work from home, the date companies have planned to bring workers back to offices has changed again and again. First it was January, a full year after the coronavirus first surfaced in China. January slipped to July, as tens of millions of people lined up across the country to be vaccinated.
But then the surge of vaccinations peaked, and the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus drove another surge in cases. For many companies, September became the new July. Now September is out as an option, and it’s anybody’s guess when workers will return to their offices in large numbers.
Recruiting new employees isn’t only about locating job candidates. It’s about finding the right ones. But waiting around for your Facebook post to gain traction or hoping you’ll get responses to your career page isn’t as productive as a layered approach.
These companies use creative recruiting tactics to attract qualified candidates. Check out their techniques and see if one of these ideas fits into your strategy.
As more organizations adopt hybrid work policies and frameworks, managers across functions have a new hurdle as they head into review season: many haven’t met their direct reports face to face.
The growing hybrid model poses a newfound challenge for performance reviews and appraisals, an aging annual tradition that was already in the midst of a metamorphosis. For companies that are embracing the hybrid or dynamic work approach, even newer performance review practices may soon require a complete overhaul.
Since the start of the pandemic, some workers have had to put their higher education goals on hold. Now, more companies are trying to help revive those college aspirations.
Target and Walmart recently announced tuition reimbursement programs to help employees with the cost of going back to school.
Since the start of 2020, the Austin Police Department has made incident reports for more than 60 alleged assaults on healthcare workers and support staff at hospitals across the city.
Throughout the pandemic, COVID-19 has taken over hospitals across Texas – pushing them to capacity and exhausting frontline workers. Dr. Serena Bumpus, a registered nurse and the practice director for the Texas Nurses Association, says violent assaults have always been an issue inside medical facilities but have been made worse during the pandemic.