Employer Resources

Employer Resources

The following are employer resources to help members manage their companies.

AutoQuotes Health of the Industry

• Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on the FES Industry

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Datassential Report on COVID-19

• Updated Highlights from Datassential’s Latest Wave of Coronavirus Research
• Highlights from Datassential’s Latest Wave of Coronavirus Research

E-Commerce/B2B

• The Retail Pivot: How Retailers Have Adapted Through Digital Transformation
• How To Minimize The Chances Of Your E-Commerce Site Going Down
• E-Commerce Logistics and Supply Chains: Journey to the Future
• E-commerce evolution grows supply chain globalisation and visibility
• E-Commerce in the Foodservice Supply Chain
• Improve Your Company’s LinkedIn Marketing Strategy This Year
• Improve Sales Enablement With a B2B Content Strategy
• Pandemic Strategy: Blaine Bros. Drives Further into Ecommerce
• Unilever's Online Food Service: A Timely Shift from B2B to B2C
• B2B Marketing Game-Changers: Looking Toward a Break-Out 2021
• How To Build And Scale Your E-Commerce Presence In 2020
• Council Post: Seven Fundamentals of Building a Successful E-Commerce Store
• 5 Ways AI Websites Outsell Regular E-Commerce
• How E-Commerce Is Changing Supply Chain Management
• UPS Adds Peak Delivery Surcharge to Manage E-Commerce Demand Amid Coronavirus
• 6 Ways the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Impact E-Commerce
• Mitigate Coronavirus (COVID-19) Business Impacts With Digital Commerce
• Major Shifts Happening in the E-Commerce Supply Chain
• Ecommerce Trends in Charts During the Coronavirus Pandemic
• CRO Basics: 6 Marketing Quick Wins For Your Website
• How COVID-19 Is Transforming E-Commerce
• Lowe’s Boosts Comp Sales 11.2% In Q1; Ace Hardware Online Sales Leap 580% In April
• Will We Forgive Amazon When This Is Over?
• Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products
• Is Amazon Business Becoming the No. 1 Industrial Distributor in the U.S.?

Economic Impact of COVID-19

• COVID-19 State Reopening Tracker
• The Restaurant Industry Continued Impact
• Shining a Light on Customer Demand During the COVID-19 Crisis
• Free Datassential Tool Helps Businesses Measure Impact of COVID-19
• MDM-Baird Distribution Survey: 5 Trends Emerging from the Industry Response to COVID-19
• U.S. Stocks Climb as Countries Begin to Reopen Economies
• Toward COVID-19 Recovery: 3 Economic Cases
• Amazon Surges to Record High, Vows To Crack Down on Coronavirus Price Gouging
• Epidemic Projections

Financial

• PPP Recipients Can Apply Early for Loan Forgiveness, SBA Says
• Agile Price Management in the COVID-19 Era
• PPP Forgiveness Changes Coming as Senate Passes House Bill
• Does Your Business Need a PPP Loan?
• Getting Back to Business -- COVID-19 Financial & Workplace Safety Updates
• Mnuchin Says Relief Loans Over $2 Million Will Be Audited
• What Not to Do When You Reopen Your Business
• Coronavirus relief loan program PPP scheduled to resume accepting new applications on April 27
• NFIB Webinar: Weekly Briefing for Small Business
• USING FUNDS FROM PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM
• COVID Loan Tracker
• PPP Loan Calculator
• Procedural Notice for SBA Loans
• Managing business continuity and finance during COVID-19
• COVID-19 checklist: Practical steps for the immediate, midterm, and long-term
• CEOs, Cash and Covid: What Every Company Must Do ASAP
• SBA Issues PPP Frequently Asked Questions; Gives Favorable Answers
• PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM LOANS
• Using a 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast in Today’s COVID-19 Environment
• Focus on cash flow and liquidity for COVID-19 resilience
• 11 Options If Your Small Business Can’t Pay Its Bills Due to Coronavirus
• CEOs, Cash and Covid: What Every Company Must Do ASAP
• Business Tax Relief Provided by the CARES Act
• COVID-19 Cash Flow Bootcamp
• COVID-19 Cash Flow – 6 Banking and Treasury Strategies
• EU Regulators Backpedal on Credit Card Accounting Standards: Give Banks Latitude During COVID-19
• COVID-19 – Accounting effects of the Coronavirus on fair value measurements
• COVID-19 – Accounting for the Coronavirus under Topic 606
• Steering your budget amid coronavirus uncertainty
• Managing cash flow during COVID-19
• Financial Help for Those Impacted by COVID-19
• Free Tools, Resources, and Financial Help for Business Owners Hit by Covid-19
• List Of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Small Business Relief Program
• Best practice cash flow management for businesses impacted by COVID-19
• COVID-19 Business Planning Checklist
• Financial Resources for Businesses Impacted By COVID-19
• IRS lightens taxpayers' compliance and enforcement burden to help with COVID-19
• SBA Releases Forgiveness Application Resulting in BIG Changes to PPP
• Leverage Predictive Data, Workflow Tools, and Flexibility

Foodservice and Retail Operations

• How Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Franchise Continued Growing During The Pandemic
• Smith & Wollensky’s Parent is Looking for Growth Through Acquisition
• Shake Shack Returns to Unit Growth, Sticks to Limited Menu for Now
• Working Lunch: Strikes, liability, supply-chain challenges surround restaurant reopenings
• Restaurant unit growth put on back burner, but some see post-COVID-19 real estate opportunity ahead
• As sales bottom out in April, restaurants start down the long road to recovery from coronavirus pandemic
• Fast Food Chains Take Cautious Approach to Reopening
• Burger King Franchisee Carrol Sees Some Dramatic Improvement
• Restaurants Prepare for an Uncertain and Complicated Reopening
• Pizza Hut Owner Yum Brands Could Bring in New Operators
• Chili's Races to Have 300 Dining Rooms Open by Friday
• Fat Rice, an Acclaimed Chicago Restaurant, Shifts to Meal Kits
• Drive-thru, expanded delivery is paying off for McDonald’s during COVID-19 pandemic
• Fast food sector hopes stimulus checks boost sales after tough quarter
• Is the End of Buffet?
• Domino's Aren't Falling At Biggest U.S. Pizza Chain
• Emerging Chains Flip from Growth Mode to Survival
• Safe Dining? Hard to Imagine, but Many Restaurants Are Trying
• New Signs of Stabilization in Grocery
• How the Pandemic is Affecting Restaurant Chains
• How the Coronavirus Will Change Restaurant Menus
• Best strategies for reopening restaurants in the coronavirus era
• Independent Restaurants Find Creative Ways to Stay Open During COVID-19 Shutdown
• A Look at the PPP Loan Process from the Inside
• Restaurant Sales Show Signs of Life
• AS STIMULUS CHECKS ARRIVE, RESTAURANTS SEE A SALES JUMP
• WHAT EACH STATE IS DOING TO HELP RESTAURANTS HARMED BY COVID-19
• Restaurant Coronavirus Resources & Information by State
• COVID-19 will forever change the foodservice industry
• Restaurants pivot to groceries and meal kits to save business during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Watch: Chefs Offer Online Cooking Demos During Coronavirus Pandemic
• This New Orleans Group Is Feeding Healthcare Workers While Saving Restaurants
• The Big Four Pizza Chains Are Hiring Over 60,000 Employees to Handle Delivery Demand During COVID-19
• Closures, Takeout, and Relief Efforts: How Food Businesses Nationwide Are Handling Coronavirus
• Investor town hall yields tips from best curbside practices to cost-cutting actions
• Their dining rooms closed, restaurants mimic dine-in experience via take-out and delivery
• Is your restaurant speaking the COVID-19-era customer's language?
• What Now? COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants
• Pent-Up Demand Grows as Restaurants Reopen in Pandemic
• Panera Bread Introduces Curbside Pickup with Technology that Automatically Alerts Store When Customers Arrive

Human Resources

• Realities of remote work: keeping connected
• Where can I find government and other reliable resources for workplace issues related to the coronavirus?
• 6 ways HR can manage on-site employees during COVID-19 pandemic
• HOW THE NEW COVID-19 SICK LEAVE, FMLA LAW COULD IMPACT ASSOCIATIONS
• Performance management in the time of coronavirus
• Health, Wellness and Leave Benefits Help Employees with Coronavirus
• How the Coronavirus Is Forcing Organizations to Better Prepare for the Future
• Business Not as Usual: Time to Re-Evaluate Your Comp and Benefits Policies
• How to Support Employees with High-Risk Concerns During a COVID-19 Outbreak
• Microsoft's solution for COVID-19 is a free Teams subscription for six months
• Weathering Coronavirus: Furloughs, Layoffs or Pay Cuts?

Legal

• EEOC Publishes Further Guidance for COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness in Workplace

Management and Leadership

• Wolfgang Puck on Leading His Restaurants Through the Pandemic
• Four Strategic Priorities for the Post-COVID-19 World
• Deloitte Survey Finds Digital Maturity Is Critical To Business Success
• Communicating Leadership During COVID-19
• Leadership in the New Now
• Surprise Leadership Tip to Soar Through COVID Crisis
• Rejected for a PPP Loan? What to Do Next
• Burkett: Opening Up America Again
• Managing Critical Moments: Resources to support your organisation’s response to crisis.
• The Essence Of Resilient Leadership: Business Recovery From COVID-19
• The COVID Leadership Guide: Strategies for Managing Through a Crisis
• To emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis, companies should start reskilling their workforces now
• A leader’s guide: Communicating with teams, stakeholders, and communities during COVID-19
• Positive leadership in uncertain times
• Develop contingency plans for operational disruption
• Activate and communicate preparedness strategy
• Activate and empower COVID-19 command center
• COVID-19: Orchestrating the recovery of organizations and supply chains
• The heart of resilient leadership: Responding to COVID-19
• Five Insightful Business Books To Read During COVID-19
• The essence of resilient leadership: Business recovery from COVID-19
• CFOs Under Pressure to Maintain Liquidity as Coronavirus Inflicts Economic Damage
• National Coronavirus Response: A Road Map to Reopening
• The Heart of Resilient Leadership Responding to COVID-19
• COVID-19: Managing supply chain risk and disruption
• Getting ahead of the next stage of the coronavirus crisis
• Eight Steps Startups Should Take to Survive the Coronavirus Crisis
• COVID-19 Response Planning
• Digital Executive Leadership During the COVID-19 Crisis
• Leading through COVID-19: An update from David Ossip
• How Chinese Companies Have Responded to Coronavirus
• Coronavirus: Leading through the crisis
• Leading Through COVID-19
• Five ways the coronavirus will affect the connectivity and tech industry in 2020
• What Technology And Manufacturing Can Do To Help Against COVID-19
• Leadership, Resilience, and the COVID-19 Outbreak
• Guide to business continuity planning during coronavirus
• COVID-19 rapid response checklist
• Leadership in a crisis: Responding to the coronavirus outbreak and future challenges
• Coronavirus: A response framework for advanced industries companies
• The heart of resilient leadership: Responding to COVID-19
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Workplace Tips for Employees
• Guidance for Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus
• Interactive Workplace Flyer Builder
• Small Business Preparedness Expanded Guide
• Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers
• How Companies Can Respond to the Coronavirus
• Best Practices for Managing Response to an Outbreak
• Resilient: How businesses can confront the COVID-19 crisis
• COVID-19 business continuity plan: Five ways to reshape

Operator Trends

• Driving restaurant traffic in a post-COVID world
• How Food Halls Will Get Their Groove Back
• Robert Earl's plan for reviving Bravo and Brio brands? Bring back old menu favorites
• The Recovery is in Full Swing at Bloomin’ Brands
• El Pollo Loco, Sweetgreen and more restaurant chains open new units as coronavirus restrictions lift across the U.S.

OSHA Guidance

• EEOC Updates COVID-19 Employment Guidance, OSHA Weighs In On Face Coverings

Safety

• Make These Procedural Changes to Assure Worker Safety in a COVID-19 World
• Burkett: Opening Up America Again
• Emergency Preparedness Plan
• Employee Safety Requirements
• Health Advisory Signage

Supply Chain/Warehousing

• Major Predictions and Strategies for Creating a Resilient Supply Chain
• An operating model for the next normal: Lessons from agile organizations in the crisis
• How The Current Pandemic Is Accelerating Supply Chain Digitalization
• The Application of Supply Chain Data to Maximize Continuity
• What past disruptions can teach us about reviving supply chains after COVID-19
• Data-Driven E-Commerce Supply Chain Management
• Key Digital Supply Chain Moves Will Create New Industry Leaders Post-Covid-19
• Building Supply Chain Resilience in a Post-COVID World
• White Paper: Post-COVID Crisis Supply Chain
• COVID-19: Managing supply chain disruptions
• Supply chain's new world order: Where to next?
• 4 Lessons on Inventory Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• How Digital Solutions Are Creating More Resilient Supply Chains
• Battered and Bruised, Supply Chains Shift to Recover-and-Survive Mode
• SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS: STRATEGIES FOR LONG-TERM SUCCESS
• Business Continuity in the Age of COVID-19 Requires an Enterprise Approach to Home Office Shipping Solutions
• How to Improve Supply Chain Resilience, Post Covid-19
• What Will Distribution Look Like Post-Virus?
• Building a flexible supply chain in low-volume, high-mix industrials
• Renewed Focus on Logistics Last-Mile Delivery Service during COVID-19 Pandemic Disruption
• Covid-19, Supply Chain and The Blockchain
• Divided Supply Chains Are Challenging Producers, Retailers
• Open Letter to Wholesalers and Distributors
• 10 Metrics to Track and Manage Risk in the Global Supply Chain
• Virus Disruption May Reshape Supply Chains
• COVID-19: Managing supply chain risk and disruption
• Reinventing Procurement: COVID-19 Demands Digital Supply Chain Expedience
• Scenarios to Guide Your Global Supply Chain
• How 3PL Symbia Logistics is Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• PwC: Supply chains will broaden, diversify in the wake of coronavirus
• Coronavirus Is a Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Management
• 7 supply chain management best practices in a COVID-19 world
  

Taxes

• Small Manufacturer Leverages Tax Reform to Weather Tough Times

Technology and Data Security

• Defending Against Coronavirus Phishing and Malware Attacks
• Update: Coronavirus prompts collaboration tool makers to offer wares for free
• Low-Touch Economy: The New Normal for Restaurant Success