Roz Francuz-Harris wakes up every morning excited to get to work, so much so she sometimes drives her wife crazy. But it’s important to her that everything she does, she does “cheerfully.”

The VP of talent acquisition, engagement, and belonging at Zillow said she fondly remembers the feeling of walking into the home that she and her wife share for the very first time, and is proud to work at a company helping to make homeownership a reality for more people. She finds joy in the “beautiful intersection” of her people-focused work and the company’s mission to help people “get home.”

“Zillow is the first place that I’ve worked where my personal passions and things that drive me in life and the company’s products and services just aligned,” she said. “The reality is, I could do this job and do well at it anywhere, and I’ve had a great opportunity working for some amazing brands, where we made an impact, but that didn’t always align to my personal values.”

Francuz-Harris’s HR journey actually began when she was working in retail at Nordstrom. She was asked by a “repeat customer” who worked on the TA team at Microsoft if she’d ever considered a different role in a different industry: recruiting. She has since had TA stops at IBM, Sprint, Uber, Slack, and Warner Media, among others, before arriving at Zillow in 2021.

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When you’re bored, do you take a nap? Or call a friend? Well, some of us are not only doing those things, but we’re doing them at work and posting videos about it on TikTok.

There are over 200,000 videos with 519 million views under #boredatwork on the platform. From screaming in a soundproof room to stirring workplace drama, employees are jokingly showcasing their lack of interest in work. But it might not be all fun and games for the HR leaders responsible for employee engagement.

“[This trend] means, to me, that people aren’t feeling connected and inspired at work to be able to contribute things to the organization and really understand what those contributions mean,” said Kaitlin Howes, an HR business partner at employee engagement platform Reward Gateway.

Howes shared with HR Brew what people pros should know about the #boredatwork trend.

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The Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule on March 29 clarifying a regulation that allows employers and employees to designate a representative to accompany the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance officer during workplace inspections.

OSHA has long allowed employees to designate a representative to accompany OSHA officials during physical workplace inspections (known as “walkarounds”), whether they’re employed directly by the business being inspected or not. In some cases, these representatives may come from a labor union representing the workers. In 2017, however, a district court questioned this interpretation of the regulation.

In this final rule, which takes effect May 31, OSHA clarified that employees may select either a fellow colleague or a non-employee as a representative during workplace inspections. In order for a non-employee to be selected, an OSHA compliance officer must judge that “they are reasonably necessary to aid in the inspection,” according to the final rule published in the Federal Register.

What HR should know. The revised regulation broadens the definition of who may be selected as a third-party representative of an employee for OSHA inspections.

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