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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

Flexi timings, work from home, remote work, or telecommute are all now a normal part of the conversation when hiring decisions are made. There was a time when flexi timings or work from home was not considered a savvy move. million people in the US work from home at least.

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Is working from home going to be a permanent thing?

Business Management Daily

Supported by technological advances and the desire to better integrate professional and personal obligations, the number of people telecommuting in the United States increased 159% between 2005 and 2017. labor force working from home full-time. 86 percent of North American workers say they feel fully productive at home.

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Looking Ahead: The Biggest HR Trends in 2020

HR Digest

From welcoming flextime in the workplace to understanding how workforce analytics can impact business decisions, these are the biggest HR trends that you’ll see as we move into 2020. Human Resource is all about recruiting, mentoring and tending of the greatest assets of any company—human capital.

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Rethinking Digital Transformation: An Interview With Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

HR Digest

The purpose of servant leadership, according to Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., In my 17 years at Kellogg, I held positions ranging from Legal, to Operations, to Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources.

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Small Employers Can Create Maternity Leave Benefits

HR Digest

The implication is that any provisional benefit given to disabled employees, such as allowing them to work from home, should also be given to pregnant employees. If one mother is allowed by the employer to work flexibility, then the same allowance should be granted to other expectant or new mothers.

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Work-life balance: The times they are a-changin’

Business Management Daily

Nothing this century has changed the work-life landscape as greatly as technology opening up the door for many jobs to be performed at any time from any place. million people work from home (an increase of 159% since 2005), and two-thirds of all companies currently have remote workers. Approximately 4.7