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Derek Jones (VP Enterprise Strategy, Americas) - Derek spearheads key initiatives at Deputy, a global workforce management platform for employee scheduling, timesheets and communication. With a focus on workforce, Derek helps business owners and workforce leaders simplify employment law compliance, keep labor cost in line and build award-winning workplaces. Derek has over 16 years’ experience in delivering data-driven sales and marketing strategies to SaaS companies like MarketSource and Griswold Home Care.

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The Importance of Workplace Communication under Social Distancing Orders

Contributed by Derek Jones on December 17, 2021 in General

From the looks of it, social distancing protocols, lockdowns and stay-at-home orders will continue to be a reality for some time. Granted, this has made a number of things awkward and complicated, but by now we have learned to work around these new limitations. Not only that, but the sudden need to improvise and adapt […]

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