Job Recruitment Adopts Social Distancing as Coronavirus Alters Practices

Employers are rethinking how they hire, trying out everything from remote onboarding to curbside job fairs in order to reduce risks, observes the Wall Street Journal . Private surveys show a pent-up demand to hire. ManpowerGroup recently reported that 60 percent of businesses it polled expect to return to pre-pandemic hiring levels before the end of December. "As states reopen," the newspaper states, "employers are bracing for what they expect will be floods of applicants as they staff back up." Preparations for restaffing show both legal and organizational hurdles, from interviewing candidates via video to rethinking staff sizes — issues that come on top of workplace-safety strategies aimed at minimizing the spread of the coronavirus, such as installing plexiglass between workstations.