Featured series 
Tag: Workplace
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Nation & World
Tracking the effects of high heels at work
Research promises broader insights on gender inequality, according to UNC professor of organizational behavior.
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Examining Brian Flores’ suit against NFL
Class action lawsuit filed against the National Football League by Brian Flores seeks to break “old boy network” hiring and retention practices of team owners that he says discriminate against Black head coach candidates and coaches.
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Helping trapped low-wage workers, employers struggling to fill spots
New HBS report finds high-turnover industries such as retail and food service can fix hiring challenges by helping their workers add skills and advance.
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Tying COVID information to worker — and employer — well-being
With COVID-19 cases going back up just as workplaces and schools prepare to reopen, a Harvard Chan School talk digs into the challenges of maintaining worker well-being on the job.
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How COVID experiences will reshape the workplace
As organizations prepare for a return to their old workplaces, Harvard Business School faculty say the pandemic has permanently changed the way we work.
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Disruption of work relationships adds to mental-health concerns during pandemic
COVID-related workplace interventions have focused on workers’ physical health, but a new study shows that attention should be paid to replacing workplace social networks also disrupted by the virus.
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How workplace harassment programs fail
Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?
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Think different, maybe
New research from Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino suggests that by supporting “constructive nonconformity” at work, organizations can improve employee engagement.
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Joke your way to success
New research finds that being funny can boost your status at work.
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On Tax Day, a step toward equality
Under federal law, same-sex couples pay taxes on spousal medical coverage that their heterosexual married coworkers do not. Starting this month, Harvard will help LGBT employees and their families offset those costs with a tax equalization payment of $1,500 a year, the University announced April 15.
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Joining the quarter-century club
Harvard feted 139 faculty and staff — physics professors and dining hall checkers among them — for their longtime service to the University at the annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony.
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Help with kids. And pets. And …
The WATCH Portal, an online network launched last year to connect Harvard parents with University-affiliated baby sitters, is expanding its marketplace to include tutoring, pet care, and a host of other services for busy employees in a pinch.
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‘Having it all’ at Harvard
After an Atlantic magazine cover story launched a national debate on how women balance career and family, a group of Harvard women is continuing the conversation, and is looking for new ideas on how to make the work-life juggling act a little less stressful.
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Social media, but not just for fun
Social networks can be time-savers, not just time-wasters. A series of popular courses gives Harvard faculty and staff members Web tools that are useful for professional gain and creative collaboration.
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Aiming for both diversity, success
A provocative role-playing presentation called “Inclusive Leadership: Managing Successful Teams” was designed to bring attention to workplace inequities, stereotypes, discrimination, and unconscious bias. The session was the second in a series of diversity dialogues.
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The right way to report wrongdoing
The University’s comprehensive new policy on whistleblowing aims to make reporting legal or ethical breaches both safe and easy for all members of the Harvard community.
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A quarter-century, and still going strong
Annual ceremony honors 142 longtime employees, the keepers of Harvard’s institutional identity. But they’re more than just the guardians of a legacy — sometimes they’re guardian angels, too.
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Taking the pulse of Harvard
Harvard is launching a University-wide staff survey for the first time since 2008. The brief questionnaire will gauge employees’ opinions on Harvard as a workplace.
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All in the Harvard family
The WATCH Portal, a new online child-care service, aims to connect Harvard parents with a vast pool of potential babysitters, from undergraduates and graduate students to the teenage children of employees.
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Health care changes ahead
Open enrollment begins Oct. 27 at Harvard. Until Nov. 9, faculty, staff, and retirees can make changes to their benefits, elect a new vision care plan, and review 2012 rates and features for Harvard’s health plans.
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A smarter Harvard marketplace
An online procurement system rolls out across Harvard, saving the University $5.4 million in its first year and making life a little easier for thousands of researchers and administrators.
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Closing the workplace gender gap
Behavioral economist Iris Bohnet studies gender gaps in economic opportunity, trust and betrayal aversion, and how these and related issues affect the workings of governments, economies, organizations, and individual interactions.
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Help on the home front
Harvard programs assist employees trying to juggle careers and families, bridging coverage gaps.
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Miss Conduct to conduct online chat
Harvard will host an online chat with Robin Abrahams, the Boston Globe’s Miss Conduct, who also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School, on Jan. 18 at noon. The chat is part of a HARVie series that offers Harvard community members the opportunity to learn from experts across campus.
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Don’t just stand there
It’s easy enough to say you value diversity, but honoring that goal can be tricky in context. A workshop on bystander awareness offered strategies on what to do when diversity is challenged in the workplace.
