How COVID-19 and social distancing is changing the workplace.
By Paul Clarke and Bérengère Sim Goldman Sachs has offered its employees worldwide an extra 10 days of leave to help them care for children or elderly relatives affected by the coronavirus. The US bank told employees last night that they were entitled to the extra time off to handle the “unique personal circumstances related to […]Read More
by Sabina Nawaz In the global transition from corporate hallways to home offices, we’ve left something behind: meaningful access to managers. Gone are the instant answers to unblock progress, information streams that managers are privy to before the rest of the organization, informal feedback and coaching while walking together after a meeting, and predictable process and […]Read More
by Amy Gallo I don’t know about you, but I’m finding it very easy to be judgmental these days. Late last week, a coworker told me on Slack that she was going to be offline for a bit while she greeted her babysitter, who was showing up any minute. My immediate thought was, “That’s not social distancing.” […]Read More
Timothy R. Clark The Covid-19 virus has disrupted and rearranged the workplace with breathtaking speed. In the span of a week, organizations across every sector have sent millions of employees home to work remotely. Without warning — and in many cases, without preparation of any kind — managers have been thrust into the position of […]Read More
By Paolo Gaudiano If someone had told me six months ago that a virus would cause a meltdown of our financial markets, shut down all major U.S. sports leagues, close schools and restaurants and completely disrupt virtually all facets of our daily lives, I would have thought that they had lost their marbles or watched […]Read More
By Paayal Zaveri Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is calling on CEOs to take a 90-day “no layoff pledge” as part of an eight-point plan to end the coronavirus crisis. Benioff’s plan, which he tweeted, includes steps to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, which has wreaked havoc on the global economy as governments around […]Read More
By Kevin Stankiewicz Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban on Wednesday warned companies against sending employees back to work too soon during the coronavirus pandemic. “Not only is it a safety issue, it’s a business issue,” Cuban said on CNBC’s “Markets in Turmoil” special. “How companies respond to that very question is going to define their brand for decades. If […]Read More
COVID-19 is having many impacts on society – and it is also impacting inclusion. President Donald Trump called coronavirus (COVID-19) the “Chinese coronavirus” in a tweet on March 16th. When asked why he used that term, he responded in this video: ” ‘Cause it comes from China. It’s not racist at all, no, not at […]Read More
BY CAROLINA MILANESI Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the conversation around remote work has been growing. It started with companies encouraging employees to stay at home. Within two weeks most companies, especially in tech, were mandating employees to work remotely and to suspend any business travel. Right now, the boom in remote work […]Read More
by Scott Berinato Some of the HBR edit staff met virtually the other day — a screen full of faces in a scene becoming more common everywhere. We talked about the content we’re commissioning in this harrowing time of a pandemic and how we can help people. But we also talked about how we were feeling. One colleague […]Read More
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