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- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
need help for the next many months to keep theirs and others’ spirits high so we can keep them for when we recover.” “How to motivate a team that has been furloughed? With our operations totally shut down by the government, we had to View Details
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
need help for the next many months to keep theirs and others’ spirits high so we can keep them for when we recover.” “How to motivate a team that has been furloughed? With our operations totally shut down by the government, we had to View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
“COVID-19 is especially deadly for people with underlying conditions, including those related to poor diet, like obesity and diabetes. That is exacerbating existing health disparities with deep roots in food apartheid.” Gardeneers had to View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
districts. Teacher layoffs were also on the table: The number, initially set at 89, was whittled down to 51; after months of debate and conflict with local teacher unions (there are two in Scranton), 16 teachers would be furloughed in...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Harvard Business School Case 314-097 Furloughs: An Alternative to Layoffs for Economic Downturns This note describes the practice of employee furloughs (also known as work sharing or short-time work) including their regulatory frameworks...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
few exceptions, true. In scores of first-person accounts and on social media, people are reporting they are working harder than they did pre-COVID. This makes perfect sense; as layoffs and furloughs skyrocket, employees live in fear of...
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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
and error took a toll.” On the detailed level, CEOs “worked on scenario planning and cost-cutting.” Most made retaining staff a priority: “We worked hard to retain all the roles we could. We ended up furloughing some people and switched...
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- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(e.g. rent). Next, reduce fixed costs, starting with salary cuts that commence at the top and the furloughing of all non-essential staff. Finally, reorganize to operate with a permanent lower fixed-cost base. Third, they must protect the...
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by Danielle Kost
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to remote work?Lindner: Yeah, so what was fascinating to my point earlier is that we felt we could be a very different partner to our customers. It was really about how can we make sure that our customers are making it safely through the pandemic. That had to do with...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
impacts, in terms of furloughs and whatnot. We have seen the low-wage workers, significant migration across sectors in Covid—so sectors like hospitality and food service, non-durable manufacturing have been losing headcount, just...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
all the layoffs and furloughs that were happening back then. So first just helping getting everyone settled. But then, as we thought of it, it was clear that this was one of the biggest changes to knowledge work we’ll ever experience. And...
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