Category: Member News
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Lake Effect HR & Law: WFH, Is It As Good As You Imagined?
The day has finally arrived, you are working from home full-time! Are you out of your pajamas yet? Have you at least brushed your teeth, eaten breakfast, fed the cat?
Working from home sounds great, but it takes discipline and practice for the transition to be successful.
We at Lake Effect have experience with managing WFH as a part of our normal work environment and have learned quite a bit since we started. See the tips from our team.
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Lake Effect HR & Law: Sustain Your Culture with a Remote Workforce
Just last week the majority of your staff worked on-site and now your entire team is working remotely, potentially with a whole family, including pets, in their home offices! You’ve tested out the technology and applied the wage and hour laws, but how do you continue engaging your team and sustaining your workplace culture?
Tricia Perkins, SPHR, SHRM-SCP offers some best practices for employee and group engagement during this unusual time. See the Full Article
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Lake Effect HR & Law: COVID-19 and the EEOC – Understand the New Landscape
Lake Effect HR & Law shares recent guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission addresses some of the issues that employers could face in the coming days.
https://mailchi.mp/9727286ef332/covid-19-and-the-eeoc-understand-the-new-landscape?e=6c9f1a11ab
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Delve: Face shield designs to fill the gap
Delve is working with Midwest Prototyping and the UW Makerspace to design a low-cost face shield and make as many as possible for local hospitals.
https://www.delve.com/insights/face-shield-designs-to-fill-the-gap
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American Family Insurance and gener8tor Offering Emergency Response Program
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – The American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact and gener8tor today announced a partnership to run emergency one-week virtual programs for small businesses affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. This free program is an extension of the gBETA programs currently offered statewide through a partnership between the two organizations.