Tell me if you can relate to this… You’ve painstakingly completed your most recent benefits enrollment guide/communication materials, which you vetted through colleagues, your team, corporate communications and your leadership. It has taken substantial time and energy ensuring accuracy, readability and finding the right balance between too much/too little information. The finished product is a…
Under the FMLA, eligible employees may take FMLA leave for incapacity from work due to their own serious health condition, or to care for the employee’s parent, spouse or child with serious health condition. A “serious health condition” involves either (a) inpatient care (and any resultant recovery period or subsequent treatment), or (b) continuing medical…
Why Engage HR in Organizational Change Management? Well before COVID-19, McKinsey reported in 2015 that, despite abundant investments in Organizational Change Management [“OCM”], these investments have not been reflected in organizational ROI. In fact, they cited a 70% failure rate to achieve OCM goals. Most notably, this poor outcome has been due to a lack…
The Department of Labor issued new prototype FMLA Notices and Certification Forms on July 16, 2020 after receiving “substantial public input.” Some of the forms were entirely reorganized and revamped, while others received less significant revisions. The DOL revised the introductory statements and instructions on the notices and forms to make them more aligned with…
More recently and with increasing numbers, organizations are assessing their Total Rewards. What does Total Rewards mean? How does it differ from separately conducting competitive market studies of their compensation levels and their benefits? WorldatWork, the Total Rewards-focused professional association provides a definition that is embraced by leaders in Compensation and Benefits as well as…
Around the world, organization leaders are reeling from the sense of drinking through multiple firehoses simultaneously while attempting to figure out how to quickly reposition themselves to weather and emerge from the potentially high impact of COVID-19. Many larger retailers shuttered their brick and mortar operations, laid off or furloughed employees and looked to their…
On Saturday, our firm ‘celebrated’ its 25 years in business… not with hoopla but, with serious reflection about the current state of organizations across the Northeast. We’ve been renegades, implementing integrated systems in human resource management and organization development since we opened on March 21, 1995. And, we’ve worked as a virtual team for 25…
Critical Factors for Effective and Rapid Transformation Baseline Understandings The practice of diversity and inclusion has evolved significantly since it began. For the most part, approaches, concepts and practices of the early years are no longer effective in today’s workplaces. Awareness was the focus; transformation and D&I competence is today’s necessity. With the increase of…
Accelerating change in organizations can be dizzying. The myriad of shifts in strategies and structures, re-positioning to gain market share, managing floods of data and analytics, growing digitalization, regulatory changes and political uncertainty, pushing for faster innovation and speed to market, tightening labor markets, increasing salaries and benefits costs as well as ensuring highly engaging…