Before Shira Berg, 30, heads to her workplace, she reserves a desk in advance. The director at Autumn Communications helped her New York office implement a shared workstation system. With clients that include Amazon, Instacart and Goldbelly, the PR agency doubled in size during the pandemic. But adhering to Covid guidelines with just 27 desks for 45 employees required some coordination. Plus, like so many other offices phasing in a return-to-work plan, not everyone has to come in all the time.
Leadr, Inc., a rapidly growing human resource software company, today announced closing their Series A funding with a $10M investment round led by Bedrock. The Series A raise also included funding from Leadr friends and family, including Leadr Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the board, Chris Heaslip; Chief Revenue Officer of Intuit, Bobby Morrison; and Co-founder of Pushpay, Eliot Crowther.
Emergency preparedness isn’t anything new to human resources. Part of being in the profession is ensuring the health and well-being of employees as well as protecting the company’s infrastructure. As such, HR managing directors are accustomed to being "ready for anything." Preparing everything from hazard and emergency plans, evacuation procedures and lockdown protocols, to how to appropriately communicate companywide emergency instructions and information, HR professionals are typically prepared for whatever comes down the pike. But, for all the emergency preparedness, you’d be hard-pressed to find many HR departments that were ready for a pandemic (prior to 2020).
An employer commenting on a job applicant's physical appearance is inappropriate. Accidentally sending an email to the wrong person is often embarrassing. Doing both is a recipe for disaster — and a viral video.
Returning to a hybrid office could be even more damaging than the move to fully remote work, writes the former HR chief at Google. Here’s how to get it right.
In the past, HR and diversity overlapped occasionally but largely existed in parallel. During more than 15 years in corporate HR, I had little interaction or collaboration with central diversity teams. The relationship between the two functions had begun to change in some progressive companies, then shifted abruptly following the murder of George Floyd and the beginning of America's racial reckoning in the summer of 2020.