Special Guest: Claire Chandler 
   
 Claire brings 30+ years of HR and Talent Acquisition background. She has spent years working with employee/candidate experiences and how managers develop and grow their employees.  She brings a great mix of experience, guiding people on employee behaviors and how to create a positive and productive work environment.
          
 Today's Podcast Perspective

• Candidates / Employees impact by the Pandemic/Covid19 and how Employers deal with those impacts
• Mental health challenges and stresses are not bubbling to the top
• Two-Income Households - how do companies handle working arrangements when kids are forced to do virtual learning
• Parents have to choose between their jobs and their kids
• Companies need to stop being so stuck in past ways of doing things
• Is it fair for people that are single or don't have hardships have to pick up the slack?
• Understanding what are reasonable accommodations
• How does FMLA play a part during a pandemic
• Companies have to decide for all their employees, how do you handle special exceptions
• You can make special exceptions, especially if positions are not deemed essential employees in the field 
• Companies pivoted think it was going to be interim, but now since it's a long term effect there are complications on managing differently
• How do you get employees back to work safely
• Employee productivity issues - making decisions on an office by office basis
• It would help if you considered people's situation in ways never done before
• Companies have also to consider dual family incomes and children homeschooling
• Re-Shaping the way we work from working from home, remote workspaces, closing down offices and doing everything virtually
• Managing people in the Pandemic, Consider the mental health and stresses people have before reacting
• Being empathetic without giving too much flexibility
• When you create a difficult environment that doesn't allow for flexibility performance and productivity will likely go down
• Organizations and Leadership need to be collaborative but there is no such thing as black and white situations
• Middle Managers are in the most precarious position with all of this happening because they are the messenger, but not the decision-maker.

 
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 Claire Chandler
 President & Founder | Talent Boost
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www.clairechandler.net
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