Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk
The three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with ergonomics, commuting by car and the minimum wage increase in Newfoundland and Labrador.
commuting
Land on free parking, expect to pay
In Monopoly, landing on free parking is simply a safe place to land. Many people, however, play under rules which allow anyone landing on free parking to collect the “pot” in the middle of the board. Ca-ching! Free parking at the workplace, however, is rarely a windfall, nor ever really free, yet the cost and value of parking is usually underestimated or overlooked by both employers and employees.
Recent studies outline benefits and risks of telecommuting
The workplace landscape has drastically changed, and we’re not just talking stand-up desks and exercise balls for chairs. It might come as a shock that as of 2010, over 2.6 million Americans telecommute. That’s over 20 percent of the U.S. working adult population. On a global scale, 20 percent telecommute, and 10 percent of those telecommute everyday...
