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HR leaders have always played a crucial role in their organizations, but the Covid-19 pandemic has thrust HR into the leadership spotlight. In the process, HR has become “essential workers” to ensure a safe and healthy return to the workplace.
Motherâs Day can be hard. These companies want to make it easier
Theyâre allowing customers to opt out of e-mails promoting a holiday that stirs grief and stress for some.
By Janelle Nanos Globe Staff,Updated May 6, 2021, 10:54 a.m.
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When sheâs not copy editing romance novels, Lynda Ryba spends a lot of time on Etsy. Sheâs a knitter who dabbles in other crafts, and she often purchases Christmas gifts, posters, and trinkets from the site, which specializes in handmade goods. âI canât resist a good tote bag,â she jokes.
But around this time each year, sheâd often get a barrage of Motherâs Day e-mails from Etsy that would inevitably cause her grief. Ryba lost her mother to cancer nine years ago this July, she said, and each e-mail âwas like this slap in the face . Itâs a constant reminder that Iâll never speak to my mother again.â
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Every other week or so, a number emerges somewhere in the world that I find both understandable and troubling.
It is the percentage of people who consistently say they don’t want to go back to working full-time in the office. Nearly 60 per cent of British workers said this was how they felt back in September last year and also in March this year, even though more than a third of the UK population had had at least one Covid jab by then.
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Commentary: Relationships in the office have become superficial Teams are no longer for life and it is breeding an emptiness that won’t be fixed once we’re back in the workplace, says the Financial Times Pilita Clark.
An empty office is pictured at the Magyar Telekom HQ during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Budapest, Hungary, October 12, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo)
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LONDON: Every other week or so, a number emerges somewhere in the world that I find both understandable and troubling.