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How to Avoid the Unexpected Consequences of Your DEI Policy

Harvard Business Review

Will the DEI policy you’re about to implement actually hurt some of the people you’re trying to help? Think about variation within the group of people the policy is aimed at helping; for example, whether the experiences of most women employees might differ from women managers. First, consider subgroups. Second, think big.

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The Best Return-to-Office Policies Aren’t One-Size-Fits-All

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Gartner’s Kimberly Shells on crafting human-centric RTO policies.

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When Someone You Manage Isn’t Following the Return-to-Office Policy

Harvard Business Review

How do you strike the right balance between following company policies and understanding the needs of your employees? What should you do if some of your team members still don’t want to come into the office after your company has imposed a mandate?

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Using Data to Design Your Hybrid Work Policies

Harvard Business Review

We’ve seen how fully remote work can lead to a loss of connection and development opportunities, particularly those that require observational learning, or learning by watching someone else do it.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

What will be needed on the corporate policy and governance side to drive this? How fast and at what scale can the Linear Economy curve be bent toward the Circular? What will be needed from governments at all levels globally in terms of carrots and sticks? This is a panel discussion you won't want to miss!

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Employers Making Strides To Improve Workplace Mental Health

Business and Tech

However, many employers across the nation over the past year took time to listen to their employees, examine policies, and update benefits that have a direct, personal impact on worker wellbeing. Taylor Adams Director of Workplace Mental Health, Mental Health America (MHA). Expressing job-related frustrations is an American tradition.

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Bringing the Shopping Experience Into the Future

Business and Tech

It can’t be sitting around for four hours in the stockroom hearing about policies and reading policy manuals,” says Chan Liban. The solution is a modern onboarding and training platform focused on mobile-first and micro-learning. “It

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