The COVID-19 crisis thrust HR leaders onto the front lines of ensuring worker and workplace safety. As economic forecasts call for a return to real GDP growth by mid-year, CEOs are focused on strategies and initiatives to accelerate success in a fundamentally different world.
Our latest report, How Can HR Leaders Accelerate Success?, provides research and insights for what HR leaders should consider in formulating plans to ensure that their organizations will be well positioned to achieve sustainable growth.
There are many unsung heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic. But few groups have received less recognition or are more deserving of praise than the HR professionals who have worked tirelessly to help keep their organizations functioning amidst a sea of fear, uncertainty and often dubious information. You have had to become experts overnight in myriad legal, health and safety, social and psychological issues, releasing policies on topics that were never before anticipated, all while keeping the lines of communication plumbed with persistent reminders to the rank and file and executive suite that we’re in this together and will somehow make it through okay.
Recently, Michele Corvino with Assurance Software sat down (virtually) with our very own Jeff Gelinas, vice president of people, product and marketing, to talk about how the coronavirus shines a spotlight on policies, especially related to the role of HR in business continuity planning and execution.
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It’s hard to not hear the word coronavirus or pandemic in the news over the past month. As cases of the virus continue to multiply across the world, now is the time for employers in the U.S. and around the world to create, revise or review an infectious disease plan, and most importantly share it with employees before it hits close to home.
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