Workplace management

The megabank rolled out new and expanded employee diversity targets that it aims to meet by 2025. The goals include placing more Hispanics in leadership roles and boosting the number of LGBTQ+ members the company hires from colleges and universities.

Before hitting send, give your emails a look to see if you're using these passive aggressive phrases to communicate with coworkers.

In conversation with Patti Cook, CEO of Finance of America Companies

Bessant & Erdoes: In conversation

What else do banks need to do to achieve gender parity more quickly? What are the tech innovations that will be most impactful for the banking industry? What will the surviving banks look like a decade from now?

Citigroup will require all U.S. employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment, citing new orders from President Biden.

Hopes that the pandemic has been curbed have dimmed as infections and hospitalizations are on the rise again due to the introduction of the extremely dangerous Delta strain. For some companies, this has disrupted their plans to bring remote employees back to their offices or institute a “hybrid” arrangement. While some are going ahead with their reopening plans. Join Danielle Caricofe, EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer at Machias Saving Bank and Hollen Spatz, VP of People & Operations at ClassPass as they discuss: (1) What companies should consider as they weigh their options; (2) The impact on employee morale and mental well being from this prolonged pandemic and how organization improve morale and support mental well being; and (3) How should companies rethink employee experience

(Bloomberg Opinion) — More than 100,000 people who used to work or live in New York State have received notices from the tax department questioning them about their whereabouts last year and asking why they paid less to the state than they have in years past.

2020 was a challenging year for banks. The impact of COVID on the economy as well as changes to accounting for loan loss provisions were evident in weaker financial and stock price performance in 2020 for many banks and yet CEO compensation increased. Learn from experienced executive compensation consultants about the challenges Compensation Committees faced in 2020, why pay levels increased relative to 2019, what were common COVID-related compensation changes, and what changes were made for 2021 incentive plan design.

Records obtained by Financial Planning detail dozens of worker safety complaints related to COVID. But the problem could be as much about employee relations as it is about the pandemic.