HR STRATEGY

Proximity to performance

For Envoy, a firm that provides companies with analytics and insights on their physical workspaces, in-office attendance is key to the business model. During the pandemic, Envoy developed a product that helped offices monitor Covid-19 tests, vaccinations, and safety guidelines as they brought workers back into the workplace.

After spending several years helping their customers navigate the return to office (RTO), Envoy decided to call its own approximately 250-person staff back into the office. VP of People Jacqueline Sharma admits “there were big, big feelings about” the policy, but told HR Brew she sees it as part and parcel of Envoy’s work. “We depend on people being in an office, so we really need our employees to believe in that mission,” Sharma said.

Envoy has tried several approaches to get workers to adhere to the RTO policy. Some have fallen under the “carrot” category, while one could be considered a “stick”: Tying office attendance to performance reviews.

Keep reading here.—CV

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TECH

Verified

Many moons ago, the blue checkmark was a coveted badge on a popular social media platform with a cute bird mascot. That was a simpler time. The landscape has since been upended by an eccentric billionaire, but back when humans “tweeted,” the blue checkmark noted to other users that the person communicating on the platform was indeed who they said they were.

Popular business and employment-focused social media platform LinkedIn rolled out a verification program last year. Professional users could verify their identity using Clear Secure, Microsoft’s Entra, or with work email addresses from thousands of companies.

This week, LinkedIn announced another iteration to its verification program, this time to address a growing issue in the digital talent acquisition space: job scams. Recruiters using the platform can soon have a “Verified Recruiter” badge on their InMail messages and their profile, so job-seekers can trust the information they’re receiving.

Zoom out. The move comes as job scams continue to afflict job-seekers and recruiters alike.

Keep reading here.—AD

HR STRATEGY

Regulating your feels

Now more than ever, employees are often encouraged to share their emotions in the workplace. But how, as a leader, can you help them manage those emotions?

That's where Scott Mautz, founder of coaching company Profound Performance, comes in. In his forthcoming book, The Mentally Strong Leader: Build the Habits to Productively Regulate Your Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors, to be released on May 7, Mautz offers habits and tools to promote emotion regulation at work.

He shared with HR Brew the role people pros can play in emotion regulation.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What should HR pros know about your book?

We all know that regulating your emotions and your thoughts…we have to do that to succeed…But that doesn’t mean it’s easy…We’re human beings subjected to a barrage of emotions and unproductive thoughts...So, the thought of trying to become stronger in the face of all of this, and for an HR executive, help their staff and their organization become stronger in the face of all this, it can feel pretty daunting and overwhelming.

Keep reading here.—MC

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