The pandemic has made a lasting impact on the workplace and has taken a toll on women's participation in the labor force. According to a jobs report by the National Women's Law Center, since February 2020, women have lost over 5.3 million jobs.
In the current war over tech talent, it’s worth mulling over the words of one of the most well-known commanders in the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Arthur Wellesley, better known as the Duke of Wellington, famously described his soldiers as being "the scum of the earth," but also acknowledged that "it really is wonderful that we should have made them the fine fellows they are."
After years working successfully as an electrical substation operator for ComEd, Andre Burson said, he failed a marijuana drug test. Burson said he only used cannabis after work, never on the job, but was forced to pass more tests in the months after that to prove he was clean.
Over the course of the last few years, I’ve been amazed and inspired by how businesses have responded to challenges and took up new ways of working. It hasn’t always been seamless. But what I have gathered is that flexibility is key. This is because our world is no longer about "or" thinking: Working in an office space or at home; seeing customers face-to-face or through video calls.
Every company has a culture from the very day the decision is made to start it. Whether your culture is intentional or accidental, it’s there. And it governs all the explicit and subtle, obvious and invisible ways that it’s OK to behave in your workplace. Behavior is the driving force. It’s not what you’ve written down, or what you hope it to be. It’s actually how the people behave, particularly in their interactions with one another.
Slightly more than half of US workers favor Covid-19 vaccine mandates in their workplaces, new polling finds, although far fewer have seen such requirements implemented by their employers. A 55% majority of Americans who are employed full-time, part-time or are self-employed say they'd support their employer requiring all employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, while 44% are opposed, according to an Axios/Ipsos survey released this week.