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Employees may dig their heels in on hybrid work

February 22, 2024 Alyssa Di Sabatino

Working five days a week in an insurance office is a thing of the past, industry experts are saying. But P&C industry leaders are still debating whether client experience, workplace culture, and productivity gels with a hybrid work model. “Within

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How hybrid work can increase broker E&O risk

May 31, 2023 David Gambrill

Workplace flexibility, one feature of a hybrid workplace, has proven to be a selling point to attract younger brokers. But the hybrid office makes it difficult to supervise newly recruited brokers to make sure they’re doing things correctly, broker E&O

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Employee engagement: managers need support, too

August 15, 2022 by Jason Contant

Managers are in the best position to help their employees’ social and emotional needs in the hybrid workplace, but managers themselves need more support, too, said a recent blog from Harvard Business Review. In this hybrid work world, it can

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Using your personal device for work? Why that matters to cyber insurers

January 10, 2022 by Jason Contant

Insurers need to consider the hybrid workforce and employees using personal devices when reviewing a cyber risk, a managing general agent says. “Multi-factor authentication is critical as… employees access work email and networks remotely, sometimes even through a web application

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How to create effective, engaged workplace teams after the COVID-19 pandemic

June 16, 2021 Matthias Spitzmuller, Associate Professor and Toller Family Fellow of Organizational Behaviour, Queen's University, Ontario

This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site.   Well into the pandemic’s second year, we are beginning to