Managing Employees & the Workplace

A collection of industry-specific playbooks with assessments and recommendations — leveraging international, national, state and local sources, and following federal, state and local public health official recommendations — developed by Greater Des Moines Partnership (IA) to help guide businesses and organizations to prepare for next steps related to economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guidance and resources by the Association of Washington Business to help employers prepare the workplace and safely welcome back employees and customers. Includes a form for connecting businesses to PPE and business toolkits.

Resources by Society of Human Resource Manager (SHRM) on ways to prepare your workforce for the possibility of business closures, working from home, quarantines and other outcomes of a disease outbreak.

A collection of resources and guidance with a health focus, including a link to a Practical Guidance Toolkit of forms, checklists, policies, and procedures, by Bloomberg Law.

An overview of information for workers and employers about the evolving coronavirus outbreak. Includes links to OSHA standards, control and prevention, by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

A collection of articles and reports concerning labor and employment, much of it COVID-19 related, by Dentons.

A continually updated collection of articles about the implications of COVID-19 on the office space, by Harvard Business Review.

Recognizing that working-from-home will continue to increase over time, the National Association of REALTORS® conducted a study of the 3,142 counties that are best poised to provide a supportive environment for working remotely. (Aug 2020)