Vacations are important -even amid pandemic
Vacations are important -even amid pandemic Q: I oversee a couple of departments, and I’m noticing a trend. With more people working from home, I’m finding they are less likely
Thoughts & Opinions
by
Eva Del Rio
A collection of columns
and articles about HR
and the workplace
Vacations are important -even amid pandemic Q: I oversee a couple of departments, and I’m noticing a trend. With more people working from home, I’m finding they are less likely
Q: I think that our democracy works better when more people vote and I want to help my employees do that in November. They are mostly a young group in
Q: Our closely-knit sales team had been doing great since we started working from home back in March and so far had been able to maintain performance goals. Part of
Q: I’m a business owner in a state that doesn’t have a mandatory mask policy, however I’m requiring universal masking of all my employees and customers. It’s taken a while
There are some people who contract the virus and don’t recover in two or three weeks like most patients do, but instead continue to experience a wide array of symptoms,
Q: Major League Baseball tried to launch their shortened season and soon after had to cancel one of their games because so many of the Miami Marlin players were infected
Early on in the pandemic, Zoom and other video-meeting platforms were a novel and nifty new thing for those working from home. Well, we’re all grown up now and what
NOTE: Due to space limits, The Gainesville Sun ran a shorter version of this column on July 20, 2020. But here we have no such limits, so you get the
NOTE: This column generated a lot of pushback from newspaper readers who thought I was excusing racism or claiming that it didn’t exist. That was not my intended message, therefore
Last week I discussed why some employees -whites and nonwhites- sometimes point to race as the sole reason why someone was or was not promoted. In other words, on the
Q: Large corporations were I’ve worked have been addressing the issue of discrimination for more than 40 years. They seek out minority candidates for open positions and conduct diversity training
Like many of you, I’ve been trying to figure out ways to be a better ally to black colleagues and friends. Frankly, I’m not sure what to do. I’ve found