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On news of coronavirus vaccine, employers wonder: Can we require it?

Jena McGregor
Dec 6, 2020 6:22 AM - For employers, the potential coronavirus vaccine has opened a complex set of legal and practical issues: Can they require employees to take a vaccine? Should they offer incentives instead to encourage compliance? And what should they do if employees resist?
One potential pandemic upside: Performance reviews are getting simpler

Jena McGregor
Oct 25, 2020 9:53 AM - Long the bane of employees and their managers, the pandemic has forced more companies to reevaluate their performance reviews, accelerating a trend toward more frequent feedback and greater focus on career development.
Four leaders share insights on how they're handling work during a pandemic

Jena McGregor
Oct 18, 2020 6:22 AM - Keeping a top workplace humming in a strong economy is one thing when employers can hand out raises, give cushy perks to their workers and make them happy with social outings and on-site beer taps. But managing a virtual workplace during three major crises -- a recession, a pandemic and social unrest amid widespread protests over racial injustice -- is a monumental, unprecedented leadership challenge.
Hot new job title in a pandemic: 'Head of remote work'

Jena McGregor
Sep 12, 2020 6:17 AM - As the pandemic has rapidly accelerated a move to remote work -- and widespread work-from-home arrangements are predicted to become permanent over the long-haul -- some tech companies are carving out new jobs for executives to act as advocates for virtual workers and think more broadly about a lasting remote future.
Average CEO earnings soared to $21.3 million last year and could rise again in 2020

Jena McGregor
Aug 23, 2020 6:22 AM - The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, found that chief executives of America's 350 largest companies earned an average of $21.3 million in realized compensation in 2019, setting the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay at 320-to-1, up from 293-to-1 in 2018 and more than five times higher than the 61-to-1 ratio in 1989.
Remote work really does mean longer days -- and more meetings

Jena McGregor
Aug 9, 2020 6:18 AM - Those who sense this grand experiment in working from home also comes with plenty of downsides -- longer days, more meetings and more email to answer -- are now backed up by data from 3.1 million workers.
Corporate America takes the internship online this summer

Jena McGregor
Jun 13, 2020 6:16 AM - Students may get a résumé builder and new contacts, but they'll miss out on the spontaneous interactions, some of the networking opportunities and the up-close inside looks that have long defined the summer internship.
As workplaces reopen, coronavirus could unleash an 'avalanche' of lawsuits over family leave, discrimination

Jena McGregor
May 10, 2020 6:00 AM - The Families First Coronavirus Response Act created new forms of paid leave that employers are not accustomed to managing. With new laws going into effect quickly, some employers may not realize they could be violating the law.
The post-pandemic workplace will hardly look like the one we left behind

Jena McGregor
Apr 25, 2020 6:18 AM - Companies are starting to prepare for the eventual return of at least some office workers who have been working remotely -- rethinking floor layouts, staggering work schedules and making changes that could fundamentally shift relationships with employers, such as scanning temperatures.
Some companies are pledging not to lay off employees, for now

Jena McGregor
Apr 4, 2020 6:10 AM - "Are we really going to have somebody remotely call somebody at their home -- not knowing their personal circumstances in any degree, not knowing whether they have a loved one in the next room who's struggling -- and let them go?" Glaser said in an interview. "What would that say about us as a company?"

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