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President Trump’s Executive Orders on DEI and Their Potential Impact on the Private Sector
Since taking office, President Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders, several of which target diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs and initiatives. At a high-level, these executive orders seek to end “illegal” DEI programs and affirmative action obligations in the federal workforce, and to “encourage” private-sector employers to do the same.
'You know, I don't know if I could do this even if I wanted to. The Gaming Commission would...' - Casino
Something wrong with the clip? Quote Ace Rothstein: You know, I don't know if I could do this even if I wanted to. The Gaming Commission would never give me a license. I have at least two dozen gambling and bookmaking pinches on me. Andy Stone: You don't have to have a license to work in a casino. All you gotta do is apply for one. The state law says you can work in a casino while they're processing your application. They got a ten-year backlog. Ace Rothstein: But what happens when they do find out?
Proactive training - the great motivator
With budgets downsized, employers are looking anywhere they can to save money for the initiatives they deem critical. Research shows that training is a great motivator in the workplace, especially when perceived as a form of recognition. Investing money in a worker’s development increases morale and the confidence needed during times of increased redundancies. But many UK companies are not able to offer staff proactive training and development as the economy bears down on budgets and resources.
Mobile Workforce Roundup: Recent Must-Read Posts From Fellow Community Members
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Greetings Mobile Workforce members! As always, your fellow community members are monitoring what’s happening in the mobile workforce world and keeping you informed.
6 reasons to select a platform based approach for workforce management
Energy Central contributors share their experience and insights for the benefit of other Members (like you). Please show them your appreciation by leaving a comment, 'liking' this post, or following this Member. I shared this article in the Mobile Workforce Group of Energy Central initially, but it definitely has overlap with the HR & Recruitment group so I thought I'd share it here as well.
6 reasons to select a platform based approach for workforce management
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. One area the events of 2020 has shown us, is the need to innovate and enact change quickly across your utility. However, challenges abound in technology transformation across infrastructure, vendor alignment, data volumes and a myriad of complexity driven from years of technology investment.
Mobile Workforce Roundup: Recent Must-Read Posts From Fellow Community Members
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Greetings Mobile Workforce members! As always, your fellow community members are monitoring what’s happening in the mobile workforce world and keeping you informed.
How you can succeed in the Touchless, First Time Fix world as a Field Services Leader
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. COVID-19 has driven a change in how field service organisations or those functions operate. From customer site visits to assets, the impact is visible and the requirement has had to be addressed. Safety, industry requirements, Government legislation all play a part on top of the pre-existing environment of optimised resources, equipment, and controlled costs.
California Poised To Enact Law Requiring Compensation Data Collection
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Mobile Workforce Roundup: Recent Must-Read Posts From Fellow Community Members
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Greetings Mobile Workforce members! Many interesting developments are emerging in the mobile workforce world.
Tactical but Strategic - Progressively introduce technology change to your office teams and field crews
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. This week I take a look at how to progressively introduce technology change to your office teams and field crews. Many of us have heard of “phased approach” or “big bang” with launching of software projects.
The Changing Landscape of Customer Experience
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. image credit: Stock photo purchased and edited by Dusk Mobile The last couple of months have transformed life as we once knew it for all of us. Your customers are in a very different place as a consequence of potentially different factors, both in your control as and out of your control as a leader.
The Changing Landscape of Customer Experience
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. The last couple of months have transformed life as we once knew it for all of us. Your customers are in a very different place as a consequence of potentially different factors, both in your control as and out of your control as a leader.
Mobile Workforce Roundup: Recent Must-Read Posts From Fellow Community Members
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Greetings Mobile Workforce members! What’s been big in the community in the last couple of weeks? That’s easy: 5G. Your fellow community members have written about its expected effect on the power industry, a new group studying its impact, and its role in mobility in the coming year. See below for pointers to these articles and more.
5G Likely Will Have a Big Effect on the Electric Power Industry, but Not for a While
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Electric power generators, transmitters and distributors are always preparing for what is about to come, whether it’s a storm tomorrow or a new technology expected to be rolled out over a period of years. 5G wireless technology, of course, is the latter, even though the tone and volume of advertisements for it and articles about it may make it seem like the former.
5 reasons to align goals and objectives across teams with a single view
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. To achieve operational excellence and deliver benefits to your business, aligning the goals and objectives of your teams is a fundamental foundation. Your business likely already has Core Values, a Mission Statement and Vision.
5G's Next Steps | Energy Central
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Coupled with the Internet of Thing (IoT), the next phase in Wireless Wide Area Networks (WAN). 5G services, has the potential to dramatically change areas, like field service and predictive maintenance. But utilities will only realize the benefits if all of the pieces work together.
Mobility in the Energy Sector in 2020
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Almost every energy business across the globe is using mobile devices to optimise processes, streamline workflows and increase workforce productivity. Mobility is a critical component of the day to day operations which support field workers in literally keeping the lights on for millions of homes and businesses.
How VR is Helping Mobile Workforces in Nuclear Power Plants
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. As things go, training is turning out to be one of the most important use cases for virtual reality in the utility industry. The technology enables utilities to train their employees about conditions on the field at a cheap cost.
Mobile Workforce Roundup: Recent Must-Read Posts From Fellow Community Members
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Greetings Mobile Workforce members! With spring just weeks away, now’s the perfect time to make sure you’re planting the seeds needed to see your great ideas blossom. The following posts from your fellow community members are the perfect place to start in getting some inspiration.
Mobile Device Management Market Size and Forecast Report By 2022
Get Published - Build a Following The Energy Central Power Industry Network is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other. If you have an experience or insight to share or have learned something from a conference or seminar, your peers and colleagues on Energy Central want to hear about it.
Zinier raises $90M to automate field service management - TechCrunch
Zinier, which uses artificial intelligence to help its customers automate their field service management, recently raised $90 million in venture capital. The five-year-old San Francisco-based company plans to use the money to boost its presence outside the telecom industry, which was its initial focus. Zinier expanded into the energy and utility industries two years ago.
Do Employees Need the Latest Smartphones?
Get Published - Build a Following The Energy Central Power Industry Network is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other. If you have an experience or insight to share or have learned something from a conference or seminar, your peers and colleagues on Energy Central want to hear about it.
Mobile Workforce Roundup: Recent Must-Read Posts From Fellow Community Members
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. ID 94891310 © Lianna2013 | Dreamstime.com Greetings Mobile Workforce members! If you took a work break over the holidays, you may have missed some of the excellent posts from your fellow community members. Here are a few highlights to get you back into the swing of things.
Unleashing Optimisation by Democratising Expertise for your Utility
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Recently the Gartner Symposium 2019 was held on the Gold Coast in Australia and last week Gartner released the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020. I felt it would be of value to look at how this can help utilities.
Making Sense of Developments in Mobile Workforce Management Solutions in 2019
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. At first glance, the relationship between California’s wildfires and mobile workforce management may seem tenuous. But the connection is not so slight, when you consider that vegetation management, ostensibly the cause of the fire, is part of a field worker’s duties. Outage management is also key to disaster response.
5 reasons to give your customers and teams the visibility they need
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. When identifying areas to improve in your utility, it can be easy to look at specific business functions or workflows in isolation. By lifting that up a level to more broadly, organisational visibility, a new world of benefits can be realised.
Making better workforce management decisions with real time data
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Your utility, with its distributed work force, may have grown organically over time as new contracts were awarded. In an office, managing a small team of less than 5 might have been straight forward with a manual process. The office with a work planning board worked fine in the early days but as the team has grown, your process has stayed the same.
Massachusetts Equal Pay Act Took Effect July 1, 2018
Massachusetts recently joined a growing list of states amending their equal pay legislation. On July 1, 2018, the Act to Establish Pay Equity, originally passed in 2016, took effect, amending Massachusetts’ existing Equal Pay Act. The law bans pay differentials on the basis of sex where two people perform comparable work, adopting the more liberal “equal pay for comparable work” standard, as opposed to the federal law’s “equal pay for equal work” standard.
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