August 18, 2021
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Remote Work May Impact Career Advancement

     

There are few silver linings to be found in the last 20 months. But one bright spot has been the expansion of remote work as an option. It has had an impact on everything from traffic congestion to worker satisfaction. The flexibility remote work offers is also a boon to companies competing for workers. However, as companies expand their work-from-home policies, they need to be mindful of how it can affect office culture and promotions.

In an article for the New York Times’ “Dealbook,” Sarah Kessler writes that there is the potential for a new form of bias to appear, one that favors workers who choose to attend work in person. In interviews with experts, workers, HR managers and executives at companies including Zillow, Kessler lays out how this bias might affect workers.

For example, in a traditional office setting, when a meeting ends, many attendees may continue the meeting informally at their desks, over lunch or after work. Some of this facetime invariably is with people who have the power to affect promotions. But, when a meeting is a video conference in which some are working from home and others who are in an office, those who are remote do not have the opportunity to put in the requisite facetime and may not stick out to managers when it’s promotion time.

It’s too early to assume that this is going to be the case, and some companies are already considering ways to eliminate this missing interaction or prevent the scenarios where remote workers are passed over for choosing to work from home. Zillow and Salesforce, for example, are eliminating in-person meetings all together. Thus, even if workers are in the office, they will still attend meetings from their desks. Other companies are trying to find ways to facilitate digital “water cooler” moments.

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Female Physicians Experience High Infertility Rates

October 7, 2021
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The medical profession’s apprenticeship is notoriously grueling. But for women, there has been an additional consequence attributed to the routine: infertility.

Listen: The Fall of Andrew Cuomo

September 20, 2021
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As an employment law firm, one of our main goals is to champion change for our clients and others who experience sexual harassment in the workplace. The importance of this endeavor reached new heights when it came to light that the former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, had been sexually harassing women in his office (and outside) for years. Learn more from Senior Associate Alex Berke on the Delve’s Podcast.

Alex Berke on LinkedIn Live: Running the Return-to-Work Marathon

September 20, 2021
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Ivy Slater, a business coach, speaker, and author, was joined by Senior Associate Alex Berke and Dr. Melba Nicholson Sullivan in a LinkedIn Live session of her “Slater Success Live” about running the return-to-work marathon.

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