Carol Patton

Carol Patton is a contributing editor for HRE who also writes HR articles and columns for business and education magazines. She can be reached at [email protected].

What’s most important in workplace contact tracing?

HR needs to proceed with caution, especially around confidentiality.

Can HR ban politically focused face masks?

Consistency is key when it comes to free speech policies, experts say.

Why HR needs to watch out for ‘immunity discrimination’

‘Immunity discrimination’ could become HR’s next legal nightmare.

Managing cost-of-living differences for pay in a remote world

As the number of remote jobs increases, HR is tasked with rethinking pay variations based on geography.

How employers are recruiting in the age of the CARES Act

Although unintended, the relief legislation complicated hiring across multiple industries.

Reopening your workplace? How to tell employees

HR professionals can encourage employees to return to the workplace by focusing more on outcomes, less on data.

Diversity, data and COVID plan among priorities for new CHRO

Social Solutions' SVP of People brings experience from BusinessSolver, Target.

Solutions and strategies to ease the return-to-workplace

HR needs to prepare employees for an office that looks and feels much different.

How this global nomad used her experience to manage the COVID crisis

How the Schneider Electric HR leader finds calm and balance during a pandemic.

Insights from a CHRO: Trifacta’s Katie Murphy

The new vice president of HR at Trifacta has managed disruption with forward-thinking.