An employee hardship fund is a tool to ensure that employees and their families can weather an unexpected crisis. When done correctly, this model is a critical tool to help combat financial instability.

Establishing a new normal will require a bit of training.

At Harvard Business School, Prithwiraj Choudhury is one of the staunchest advocates of the shift to getting rid of offices and letting employees work wherever they want. “Why do we need all these empty offices?” he asks. Some of his recent research looked at patent examiners who work for the government. When they were allowed to work anywhere in the country, starting in 2011, their work output increased 4.4 percent, without any decrease in quality.

How can leaders confront team members who are struggling to successfully work remotely while also remaining sensitive to the times? It requires a broader approach and different skills than many leaders are used to. But there are several ways to learn them.

Now that workers have learned the basics of working from home, managers need to relaunch their teams in the new reality of how work gets done, advises Tsedal Neeley.

Start with transparency: a discussion of how companies are and could be addressing workers’ needs in each phase of the crisis.

During stressful periods, people look for support from their partners more than ever, but personal space is important too. A Harvard expert on healthy relationships offers advice for the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond.

While we’re all experiencing greater job and family stress in this new normal, recent research has found there are steps that employees can take to protect their well-being.

Are you leaving your organization during a critical time? In this bonus episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Shirli Kopelman, a negotiations professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the author of Negotiating Genuinely: Being Yourself in Business. They talk through what to do when you’re planning to give notice during the coronavirus pandemic and can’t train your replacement.

The pandemic is causing the steepest decline in modern history.

Cities drive prosperity. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, they also have become crucibles of disease. Sameh Wahba, the World Bank’s Global Director of Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience, and Land, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the World Bank partners with technologists to help cities on the frontline of the pandemic, and how the dynamism of urban density can be harnessed to build livable and inclusive cities of the future.

Research finds that overdraft fees are an outsized source of revenue for banks in poor communities.