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April Perkins, Associate Attorney & Risa B. Boerner, Partner, Fisher Phillips LLP
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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job into a telework position.
While the onboarding process is an exciting time that helps acclimate an employee to the organization's corporate culture, team, and procedures, the offboarding process is equally important.
According to CNBC, 36% of their Technology Executive Council members say that cyberthreats on their organizations have increased. In addition, the Secret Service, FBI, and World Health Organization have all reported coronavirus-related scams.
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job into a telework position.
In the weeks leading up to the issuance of stay-at-home orders, forward-looking businesses took that time to ensure that VPN connections and remote virtualization solutions were robust enough to handle the sudden barrage of users.
An article in Computerweekly noted there used to be one criminal campaign a day worldwide; now there are three to four a day. Between March 1 and May 15, research by IBM Security Systems noted a 5,000-plus percent increase in Covid-19 spam.
“Public health regulation has been left to the states, so I don’t see the federal government superseding states … politically it would be very challenging,” Hughes told Yahoo Finance in a recent interview.
Contrary to a common misconception and perhaps common sense, the FLSA does not require employers to track and pay for only those hours worked by non-exempt employees that the employer scheduled or otherwise directed the employee to work.
In this situation, we need to accept that the typical ways of leading a team may not prove successful. The simple question of what success looks like right now isn’t easy to answer with either clarity or consistency.