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Growing Numbers Face Transport Insecurity

The Horizons Tracker

Inequality is a widespread problem across the developed world, but while income insecurity has been well documented, a recent study from the University of Michigan suggests that transportation insecurity deserves equal attention. The researchers developed the Transportation Security Index to measure transportation insecurity. .

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The Key to Job Satisfaction: Prioritize Employee Mental Health Says the FMLA

HR Digest

The FMLA acknowledges that a chronic condition whether physical or mental may cause occasional periods when an individual is unable to work is a qualifying serious health condition if it requires treatment by a health care provider at least twice a year and recurs over an extended period of time.

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How Race Affects Our Perceptions Of Risk Takers

The Horizons Tracker

This is something that had not been documented previously, yet such a bias could potentially influence our social perceptions, judgements and behaviors in situations in which the assessment of risk in others is common and consequential, such as in health care, financial lending and policing,” they explain.

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What Employee Handbook Topics Should You Cover?

HR Digest

An employee manual or handbook is a document that employees receive upon joining your company. Last of all, it works as a cohesive document listing key job-related information such as policies, working conditions, and behavioral expectations that guide employee behavior in a particular situation. What is an employee handbook?

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To better manage and understand yourself and work – you need to seek different patterns

Mike Cardus

Working with a management team from a health care organization, we used this process early in the covid19 pandemic to understand and look for patterns in the rapid changes. Patterns and having a method to look for, understand, document, and share are how sense-making and navigating complexity happens.

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The Complex Role of Human Resources in Termination of Employees

HR Digest

Maintain a record of the employee’s documentation right from the hiring date—past employment, contact details, references, etc. The HR team needs to be prompt with calculating what the employee is owed, including the transfer of any health care policies they were covered under.

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Slack Is Needed If The Digital Transformation Of Healthcare Is To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

Time was a common concern, with doctors who felt they had insufficient time to do their documentation at work suffering burnout at 2.8 Quantitatively, physicians who have identified these stressors are more likely to be burned out than physicians who haven’t.”. times the rate of their peers who didn’t suffer in the same way.