“Vaccine-Nation”: The Impact of New Vaccine Mandates on HCM – by Bob Greene, Ascentis
0 It would not be overstatement to say that the COVID pandemic and its impact on the U.S. workforce has put HR professionals on a “roller coaster” over the past 21 months – and not the fun kind! In late spring of 2021, just as COVID vaccines were becoming plentiful and the trio of horrifying metrics (infection rate, hospitalization rate, ...
One Step Closer to a Permanent “Seat at the Table”: The SEC’s Regulation S-K HCM Disclosure Revisions
0 On August 26, 2020, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“the SEC”) announced its first significant set of investor disclosure requirement revisions in the past 30 years. These revisions require that investor communications such as prospectuses and annual reports include more detailed descriptions of human capital management risks and impacts to the organization. They are mandatory for any organization ...
The Coronavirus Pandemic: The Morning After…..Delayed – by Bob Greene, Ascentis
0 “Failing to plan … is … planning to fail.” (quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin) On December 13, 1972, Irwin Allen’s arguably most famous disaster flick, The Poseidon Adventure, debuted. Ultimately producing $125 million in box office (that was BIG back then, second only that year to The Godfather), it also produced just one Oscar win, for Best Song, “The ...
From the Editors – by Bob Greene, Ascentis
0 An unusual thing happened on the way to finalizing this issue of WSR: the world changed, seemingly overnight, and more fundamentally and dramatically than we’ve seen in the past 100 years. The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has been profound – on employees, HR practitioners, IT professionals, businesses and the economy in general, to name just a few of ...
The Coronavirus Pandemic: What We’ve Learned So Far – by Bob Greene, Ascentis
0 “This virus is essentially malware aimed at the source code of humanity.” – Amy Webb, Quantitative Futurist On the last day of January, 2020, the average HR Information Technology professional in America was probably upbeat, working within a thriving economy, challenged by projects designed to harness the latest HR technology innovations, and focused on typical HCM tasks, such as: ...