Female CEOs are outnumbered by their male counterparts by nearly 17 to one, and there are seven times as many male executive officers as female ones, according to a Morningstar report. The report highlights that "women and men advance upward through different channels" -- with women more likely to be elevated to senior support roles -- and the University of Virginia's Cathy Hwang urges companies to "internalize the fact that a diverse workforce is a benefit that will lead to innovation and less groupthink." Full Story: Forbes (tiered subscription model) (2/19)
Is your company a great place to work for parents? Half—if not more—of your company are working parents--so what is your company doing to support them? See how your company compares to the world's best in the largest-ever working parents study, and find out which benefits could really set you apart. Download the report.
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Initial US unemployment claims at 861K The US Department of Labor reported 861,000 initial unemployment claims were filed last week, suggesting continued problems in the labor market. Continuing claims decreased by 64,000 to just under 4.5 million. Full Story: CNBC (2/18)
Frontline Orchestration: What it could mean for your operations A true digital workplace consolidates all workplace activities – communications, collaboration, training, tasks, audits and HR functions – to a single app for mobile devices. It becomes your frontline workers’ central tool for managing their work. Read the SmartFocus for more.
5 Ways to Hire Like It’s 2021 We dug deep to learn what job seekers want from an employer for 2021. While there are more candidates seeking work, there's also more competition among businesses for the most qualified people. Get the leading edge with this free guide.
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Employers face tough questions about mandating vaccine A recent Littler Mendelson survey showed that only 6% of employer respondents intend to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for their workers, and less than 1% said they had already done so. Nearly 80% said they had concerns about pushback from some employees wishing not to be vaccinated. Full Story: HR Dive (2/18)
The HR Leader
Why hope will see you through stressful times Hope is a future-facing state of mind that can help people look beyond materialism, reassess their lives and priorities, and seek good stress that motivates them to improve, writes LaRae Quy. "When we deny ourselves the option to feel pain in the pursuit of a purpose that holds value for us, we deny ourselves the ability to feel purpose at all," she writes. Full Story: SmartBrief/Leadership (2/17)
The first image NASA’s Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Perseverance, NASA's rover, successfully landed in the Jezero crater on Mars Thursday and promptly started sending images of the area back to Earth. Perseverance, which joins NASA's long-lived Curiosity rover in surveying the red planet, is the third mission to Mars to arrive this month, following the United Arab Emirates' spacecraft and China's orbiter and rover. Full Story: United Press International (2/18),Gizmodo (2/18)
About the Editor
Kanoe Namahoe
A girl from the Aloha state covering the workforce and K-20 education.
Today's HR Leader story, by former FBI undercover and counterintelligence agent LaRae Quy, about the utility of hope is no fluff piece. Quy drops truths on what's causing our heightened levels of stress and anxiety and how we can get out from under it. "Materialism can devour us from the inside out. An impressive amount of research suggests that preoccupation with possessions and the social image they project produces anxiety, stress, depression and broken relationships," writes Quy.
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