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SHRM | April 05, 2020

Open the windows. Leave contaminated areas vacant for 24 hours if you can. Wear disposable gloves and gowns. And, of course, wash your hands often. These are among the updated guidelines posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for cleaning and disinfecting a workplace after an employee is diagnosed with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. Among the new tips: If a contaminated area has been closed for seven days or more, there's no need for a sp...

Canada Life | June 12, 2020

The Canada Life Assurance Company today announced employees will soon begin a phased approach to returning to the office. As a thank you and to help ensure everyone has a chance to refresh, more than 11,000 employees nation-wide are each being awarded two paid Canada Life Days on July 2 and 3, for an extra-long Canada Day celebration. "Three months ago, we asked our employees to be flexible, adaptable, creative and resilient in the face of great change, disruption and uncertainty,” sa...

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Microsoft | December 02, 2020

Coding Dojo and Microsoft together declared Nov. 24 that Coding Dojo users will have the option to acquire Microsoft Azure certification through the platform as a feature of Microsoft's worldwide skills activity to expertise 25 million workers by the end of 2020. Students will learn Azure basics and convey projects based on the cloud computing platform. Graduating students would then be able to participate in three separate certification programs and take the end of the year t...

Amazon | July 15, 2020

Amazon is joining other large tech companies in offering on- and near-site clinics to provide primary care for its employees, the e-commerce giant announced on Tuesday.Seattle-based Amazon will pilot 20 primary care centers in Dallas-Fort Worth; San Bernardino-Moreno Valley, California; Louisville, Kentucky; Phoenix; and Detroit, covering 115,000 employees and their families with additional plans to scale in 2021 if the clinics are successful.The so-called Neighborhood Health Centers...