Firms find ways to help employees through pandemic

Keeping employees engaged and mentally strong at work is a pandemic-era challenge like no other. Strategies, from providing clarity to espousing empathy to toilet roll basketball, are in the offing.

Sharon Lesko, the human resources director with Senior Friendship Centers,
Sharon Lesko, the human resources director with Senior Friendship Centers,
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London Bay Homes employees toiling away at their desks Friday afternoons can get downright giddy when they spot CEO and President Mark Wilson. That’s because the soft-spoken, gentlemanly English-born Wilson, right around 5 p.m., is one of several top leaders at the company in charge of a big task: pushing a drink cart up and down the aisles.   

 

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