Last spring, as offices closed across the country and kitchen tables became desks, contemplating the possible upsides of the new professional conundrum felt like a means of survival.
There was much tumult, and there were many questions. Among them: Once we all became boxes on Zoom or text bubbles in a chat, and once we were physically separated from colleagues and clients, would incidents of workplace harassment drop?
That flame quickly went dark.
What is virtual harassment?
Kalpana Kotagal, partner at Cohen Milstein in the civil rights and employment group, says workplace harassment of any kind occurs when an employee uses protected characteristics things like race, gender, sexual orientation, seniority or socioeconomic status to hold power over a colleague or staff member. The result is a so-called hostile work environment a workspace that feels unsafe, can feel threatening to someone’s identity or inhibit employees from doing their work.
Corporate jet-setters boost sustainable fuel
THE BIG IDEA
Major U.S. airlines including United Airlines are partnering with corporate customers to boost the use of sustainable aviation fuel, which accounts for less than 1 percent of the more than 90 billion gallons of jet fuel burned each year. | Jeff Chiu/AP Photo
CLEANING UP CORPORATE TRAVEL With business travel expected to rebound this year, some of the world’s biggest corporations are taking a hard look at how its jet-setters affect the planet.
In April alone, Microsoft, Siemens and Deloitte were among at least 14 companies that pledged to purchase sustainable aviation fuel, one of the few promising climate solutions airlines have to directly reduce their pollution, your host reports with POLITICO’s Stephanie Beasley.
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Kevin J. Delaney is the founder of Reset Work, a newsletter about work and leadership in the pandemic era and beyond.
This is part of Reset Work s weekly Q&A series on returning to work, republished with permission.
In it, Delaney shares parts of his conversation with startup founder and investor Elad Gil, an alum of Google and Twitter.
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What parts of work will remain as they have been during the pandemic, and what other parts will bounce back to pre-COVID practices? At the risk of getting ahead of ourselves as new variants of COVID spread, I reached out to Elad Gil who has been thinking about those questions, and has made some startup investments based on where he sees things heading.
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Kevin J. Delaney is the founder of Reset Work, a newsletter about work and leadership in the pandemic era and beyond.
This post is part of Reset Work s weekly business book briefing, republished with permission.
In it, Delaney breaks down Working Backwards, a new book from Amazon alums Colin Bryar and Bill Carr.
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Much of the coverage of Jeff Bezos s recent announcement that he plans to cede the CEO role at Amazon noted the retailer s idiosyncratic corporate practices. Perhaps most famous of them is the fact that important meetings at Amazon begin with 20 minutes of silence. During that time, executives quietly read six-page narrative memos presenting the matter to be discussed.