The relationship between work and home is constantly changing, with more people telecommuting and using their home, local café, or maybe an airport as a remote office. But there is an escalating trend in how employees bring their work life and home life together, BYOD: Bring Your Own Device. BYOD is an IT policy where employees are allowed or encouraged to use their personal laptop, smart phone and/or tablet for work to access enterprise data and systems.
Many technologies aim to make our lives better and make our work lives more efficient. These same technologies create unique situations within the workplace that could reduce productivity and cause security and privacy concerns. Having effective policies related to technology and social media etiquette for employees are essential to creating a culture of understanding around these situations. Here are a few policies to consider:
It’s Monday morning. You hear the beeping noise from your alarm clock. You get up, ready for the work week ahead. While still in your pajamas, you head to your morning pot of coffee, make some breakfast and shuffle over to the kitchen table or maybe your home office. You sit down and open up your computer and start opening emails from the weekend, or maybe a report that’s due in the next couple of days. This is what more and more employees in America are becoming accustomed to: Telecommunicating.
Recently, much attention is being paid on a global scale to the negative impact that an aging, or in some countries even “super-aged,” population will have on the global economy in the near future.
Even though summer may be coming to an end, it doesn’t mean winter boots and hot chocolate quite yet. Millions of people, predominantly men, are excited for another season: football season.
When we hear “social media” and “HR” in the same sentence, it’s usually in a negative context. “How can we keep employees off of social media at work?” or “I saw something bad on a candidates social media profile, what do I do now?”
Perhaps one of the most important and significant characteristics of a great workplace is its organizational climate.
How often does your HR department measure its effectiveness? HR metrics and measurements can be powerful in showing us areas where we could improve and better meet the needs of our organization and its employees. They can also help provide meaningful data to help us make good decisions for our business and department.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the HIPAA Privacy Rule “establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically.”
ERC is proud to announce the addition of Tom Ault as the Director of our Technical Training practice. Tom brings an incredible mix of industry and technical experience to this role.
ERC was represented by 3 speakers at the 2014 HR Star Conference on July 24. The sold-out conference was held at the Holiday Inn in Independence and featured thought leaders on HR and leadership topics. In attendance were over 600 HR professionals from more than 300 companies.
