Your workplace culture is constantly changing. The Emtrain blog is dedicated to bringing human resources professionals, compliance officers, and other culture leaders new ideas and resources they can use to cultivate a conscious workplace. From evolving your code of conduct into a culture code to giving your employees the language and workplace skills they need to be a positive part of a respectful workplace culture, we’ve got you covered.

Ensuring HIPAA Compliance in the Workplace: An HR Perspective

Understanding HIPAA Compliance Defining HIPAA Compliance The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or “HIPAA”, sets standards to protect sensitive and individually identifiable Protected Health Information (PHI) from disclosure. Under...

The Biggest Ethics & Compliance Scandal in 100 Years

Many people will undoubtedly be outraged at this thought, but the criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump is the biggest ethics and compliance (E&C) scandal in the last 100...

The Value of Strong Workplace Ethics

What is Workplace Ethics? Workplace ethics refer to the principles and values that guide the behavior of individuals and organizations in a professional setting. It encompasses everything from integrating diversity...

Why Do Employees Need Code of Conduct Training?

Code of conduct training for employees is an essential component of an organization's compliance and ethics program. It serves as a comprehensive guide, educating employees on the ethical standards, policies,...

5 Steps to Improve Your Workplace Feedback

As a manager, one of your most important jobs is giving feedback to your employees. Just as nobody is perfect, nobody does their job perfectly. It’s a leader’s responsibility to...

The Art of Vigilance in Our Online World

“Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.” – Thomas Jefferson Anything that is to become habit requires practice. Practicing vigilance as we transact many aspects of our professional and...

How to Handle Employee COVID-19 Leaves (and Accommodate Everyone)

We’re now living with the consequences of a pandemic (COVID-19) impacting millions of people’s physical and mental health. People are struggling and large percentages of the workforce are out on...

Office Policies & Procedures : Returning to the Office (COVID-19)

How to facilitate a smooth transition back to the workplace Just when we thought we were out of the woods, the cold season sneaked upon us with surges in COVID-19...

How Code of Conduct Training Can Inspire Employees

Most of our clients use Emtrain for their ongoing mandatory training, so we spend a lot of time thinking: how can we make required training more interesting and impactful for...

Building a Comprehensive Compliance Training Program

Building a well-rounded compliance training program can be tricky, and it goes deeper than just checking a few boxes. HR and Compliance leaders need to know what topics to cover,...

3 Ways to Avoid Social Media Fallout in the Workplace

Best Practices for Social Media in the Workplace To the extent that events of 2020 across communities in the United States left any room for uncertainty about the current state...

Top Cyber Security Vulnerabilities in 2021

As organizations increasingly leverage cloud-based applications and look at another year of working from home, security professionals predict increased security threats in 2021 and cybercriminal activity. Some estimates have increased...

Compliance Training: 3 Things Your Solution Needs

The role of the compliance officer is rapidly changing as organizational and societal norms shift HR and Compliance folks align their strategies and work closely together to build healthier workplace...

COVID and Health Information Privacy

As COVID-19 case numbers in the US continue to coast at an all time high, we need to keep our safety guards up now more than ever. Though, as the...

Prop 22 and The New Gig Economy

This election season, gig economy companies, namely Uber and Lyft, spent over $200 million campaigning in favor of CA Prop 22. This high profile proposition amended 2018's Assembly Bill (AB)...

How to Empower Employees to Be Brand Ambassadors

The moment a potential new hire enters the interview and hiring process, you are representing your company. They are getting your company's first impressions based on how you talk about...

An Employee's Journey with COVID-19

Since news of the Coronavirus first hit early 2020, I think we have all been at least a little more cautious at the first sign of a sniffle. When I...

Health and Disability Inclusion: A Quick Guide

In 2020, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The goal of the Act was to increase opportunities for those with disabilities: both visible and...

Why You Need a 360° Cyber Security Plan

Last month, the FBI Cyber Division reported that, since COVID-19 hit and Shelter-in-Place (SIP) mandates took effect, the average number of cyber security complaints has risen to 4,000 complaints per...

How to Talk About COVID-19 at Work

By now, we've learned that the COVID-19 pandemic is about so much more than just the virus, especially in how it has affected our work lives. Misinformation, fear, politics, and...

How to Avoid a Cyber Security Breach

We are living in unprecedented and challenging times. During such times, there are always well-intentioned people who step up to help, but there is a smaller minority that sets out...
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