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More ChatGPT bans
Oklahoma!
Hospitable HR
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Google joined fellow tech giant Apple in cautioning its employees on their use of generative AI tools, according to Reuters.
The news service reported that Alphabet, the company that owns Google, warned employees against including confidential information in queries to generative AI programs such as ChatGPT and Google-owned Bard.
Google told its developers to stay away from using Bard-generated code, Reuters reported. (Google declined to comment on the record when asked about the Reuters report.)
The corporate world is busy navigating workplace policies around the tools. Some companies banned them all together, while others have restricted the types of information that can be shared when asking questions.
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In 2018, the city of Tulsa made a prescient decision to pay remote workers $10,000 for moving there.
“We kind of placed a bet on remote workers coming and adding to the exciting things that were happening in Tulsa,” Justin Harlan, managing director of Tulsa Remote, which is funded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, among others, told HR Brew.
Of course, no one could quite have predicted what happened in the ensuing years. With more employees able to work remotely due to Covid-19, interest in Tulsa Remote grew significantly. Twenty-thousand workers applied to the program in 2020 and 350 were accepted, up from 70 program participants the year prior, according to Harlan. In 2021, the program welcomed 950 remote workers.
A recent study published by the program finds most members of Tulsa Remote have stuck around, generating millions of dollars in estimated employment income and sales tax revenue for the city.
Finding community. Just over 2,400 remote workers have moved to Tulsa through the relocation program since 2019, Harlan said. Over three-quarters (76%) of Tulsa Remote participants who had joined and completed the year-long program still lived there as of the end of 2022, the study found.
Harlan said the program aims to get participants plugged into the community quickly after they arrive, with programming that includes monthly events focused on socializing, volunteering, and professional development. Participants also receive access to a coworking space for 36 months.
Keep reading.—CV
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Hospital workers have been under immense pressure since the early days of the pandemic in 2020. Burnout among healthcare workers goes beyond doctors and nurses, impacting nearly everyone in the system, according to a 2023 study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and others. The US Surgeon General has called for hospitals to provide more mental healthcare to hospital workers, among other resources, as many in the industry have left or plan to leave.
Behind the tired medical and support staff, there are hospital HR leaders who are dedicated to everyone’s well-being. HR Brew spoke to Janel Allen, EVP and chief people officer at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha, on her role, and how the hospital holds onto valuable workers.
Big feelings. Allen’s career spans more than 20 years, working across the academic world and healthcare before landing in pediatric healthcare. Allen said that doing HR at a hospital means you must be invested in who you’re serving. “It’s truly about creating a culture that provides the best care for [the] kids and…families we serve,” she said. “We do that through the people that provide the care. So, we’ve been really passionate about [asking], what can we do for our people?”
Keep reading.—KP
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Today’s top HR reads.
Stat: 60% of employees are thinking about leaving their job for one that better supports their mental well-being. (Deloitte)
Quote: “If you come into work tired and you’re driving a lift or cherry picker, you’ll also be impaired…It seems a little hypocritical to pick out a few things that could cause impairment and ignore the rest of them.”—Eric Waxman, human resources director at CRP Industries, on judging cannabis-impaired workers (the Wall Street Journal)
Read: If the Supreme Court ends affirmative action, what’s next for DE&I? (Quartz)
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