We all know 2021 will go down in history as the year of the Great Resignation as Americans left their jobs in record numbers. At the end of last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the U.S. set a new quit rate record, and according to a PwC study, 65% of employees were looking for a new job.

Staff turnover is costly-as much as an estimated one-half to two times the employee’s annual salary is needed to replace an employee. In addition to the costs incurred, employers must spend the time and expense to locate and train employees to replace those who quit. The HR department has not been immune to staff turnover. Right now, many companies have fewer HR professionals managing increased workloads while trying to find new and innovative ways to communicate.

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Green Circle Life, provider of an all-in-one communication and engagement platform SmartFHR, has hired Fabio Checchin as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

By encouraging open communication in a safe space, staff members may be willing to share more freely about what’s really going on. Below, 11 experts from Forbes Human Resources Council offer their best advice on alternative ways to improve attendance in the workplace.Fabio joins the Green Circle Life team with more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, operations, management, training, and process improvement. He is well-known among C-level executives for his expertise in aiding organizations in tech and enterprise software sales, business development, and business consulting.

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To curb an uptick in the rate of employee absenteeism within an organization, a team supervisor will need to go beyond the surface level and dig a little deeper to discover the true factors-be they mental or physical-that are impacting employees the most if they want to help them turn things around.

By encouraging open communication in a safe space, staff members may be willing to share more freely about what’s really going on. Below, 11 experts from Forbes Human Resources Council offer their best advice on alternative ways to improve attendance in the workplace.

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Authority Magazine, March 14, 2022, By Luke Kervin

It should be easy to use. If an application is not user friendly and accessible, people will not gain the most benefit from it, no matter how revolutionary or helpful it is.

In recent years, Big Tech has gotten a bad rep. But of course many tech companies are doing important work making monumental positive changes to society, health, and the environment. To highlight these, we started a new interview series about “Technology Making An Important Positive Social Impact”. We are interviewing leaders of tech companies who are creating or have created a tech product that is helping to make a positive change in people’s lives or the environment. As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dinesh Sheth.

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You may have heard recently that the Federal Appeals Court has enacted a stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) emergency temporary standard (ETS). The ETS deadline was originally published in November 2021, the stay went into effect a few days later and continues to prevent implementation or enforcement. While this means the standard is not currently enacted, many business and HR leaders are wondering what they can do in the meantime, just in case they need to be in compliance in the future.

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With the arrival of the coronavirus, the switch to remote work was almost instantaneous, and wasn’t really a matter of choice.

The shift back to working from offices, however, will continue to be a much slower and more controlled process. There is a lot of gray area surrounding the future of work environments, but two things are abundantly clear: it will not be same as it was before the pandemic, and it will vary from employee to employee to company to company.

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Green Circle Life Empowering Clients to Optimize Health and Wellness

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1. Employee vaccination status: How many of your employees are currently fully vaccinated? Do you have proof of their vaccination in your record? Which mandates are you complying with?
2. Testing: Is weekly testing an option for some or all your unvaccinated employees? What testing will be performed, where and who will pay for the testing? How will results be stored? How will you make sure that an unvaccinated employee wears a mask all the time when they are in your office or store?
3. Validation: Who is going to develop and supervise the process and manage the validation of vaccination documentation and testing results?
4. Exemptions: What exemptions will your company permit and what is the process to allow or deny an exemption request? And if exempted, what does the employee need to do next?
5. Systems: What tools do your human resource (HR) team, operational team, compliance team and employees must make sure they can do their part to remain compliant with the vaccination requirements?

Companies cannot afford to be unprepared when the mandate goes into effect. While some details have been determined, if the new regulation is anything like other federal mandates put in place to safeguard the public, fines for non-compliance will be swift and expensive. As it stands, penalties can be up to $14,000 per violation. This could be devastating to a business.

Green Circle Life offer a very comprehensive Vaccination Mandate Compliance tool to help companies in their compliance efforts. The SmartFHR™ Platform based Covid Passport is easy to use and is available via app and web. The platform will allow companies to:

• Track employee vaccination and testing status
• Securely store vaccination records & test results
• Manage exemption requests
• Offer a Covid risk assessment
• Receive extensive analysis and reports for monitoring and compliance with all mandate
• Integrate with existing HR systems and work processes
• Manage multiple groups based on location, department, or other organizational structure

Verification of Vaccination Cards and Covid Test Results may be outsourced to Green Circle Life

Don’t be caught unprepared. Contact info@greencirclelife.com for a demo and be on the way to compliance in just two weeks.

Green Circle Life, provider of an all-in-one communication and engagement platform SmartFHR™, has launched the Covid Passport, their end-to-end solution to help employers comply with an upcoming Covid vaccination mandate from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

The mandate requires employers to ensure employees are either fully vaccinated against Covid or that they have Covid testing weekly. Employees must provide official documentation of vaccination such as a vaccination record card. Employers must then review the documentation, confirm an employee’s vaccine status, and securely retain records, which could be a complicated process without the right technology.

“Companies will have to comply or face steep fines,” said Dinesh Sheth, founder and CEO of Green Circle Life. “Our uniquely positioned solution will help employers comply with the mandate. They can manage vaccination, testing, and exemptions at both a local and a central level using the hierarchical administrative console. We also offer to review the vaccination records and testing results uploaded by employees to reduce the burden on HR staff. This platform is designed to be flexible and can be deployed for any size organization quickly. Along with the employer platform, it is just as important to have a tool that is easy for employees to use to further ensure compliance.”

For employees, the Covid Passport is accessible via an app and web and allows them to record their vaccination status and store their vaccination card. They can track the results of Covid tests as well as get reminders for weekly testing and future vaccination doses. The app allows employees to manage their vaccination exemption and take an optional daily Covid risk assessment questionnaire.

With the mandate in effect, there may still be some unknowns, but the SmartFHR™ platform is flexible and can adopt to changing requirements. Organizations can use different access rights and permissions to allow specific leaders and administrators to view Covid vaccination information and test results, manage exemption requests and approvals, manage employee groups, and run detailed reports, among other tasks. The secure platform provides data encryption and compliance and can be integrated with corporate systems and HR processes.

About Green Circle Life
Green Circle Life offers the patented SmartFHR™ platform for employers to engage employees and their families to live happier, healthier, and more productive lives. This helps employers attract and retain talent by providing employees access to all of their benefits and services, chronic condition management programs, wellness programs and one-one-one health and wellness coaching. SmartFHR™ delivers a greater return on investment with an engaged workforce, better healthcare outcomes, lower healthcare costs, reduced absenteeism and presenteeism, and improved profitability. The platform is client-branded and fully integrated with their internal and external systems. For more information, visit www.greencirclelife.com and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Charlyne H. McWilliams
For Green Circle Life
charlyne@williammills.com

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