Sarah de Freitas joined the Employee Relations team on April 21, 2021, as the embedded HR Generalist for the School of Drama. Sarah has a dual reporting line to the Associate Dean/Managing Director of the School of Drama and to Karen Wu, Director, Employee Relations.
Most recently, Sarah...Spring is here and our HR colleagues have shown us how they and their families have been enjoying the sunshine and fresh outdoors.
Afro American Cultural Center at Yale Spring Food Drive
To celebrate International Women’s Day, and in honor of Women’s History Month, now through Thursday, April 8 , the Afro American Cultural Center at Yale will be collecting canned/dried...
The Employee Relations Workplace Survey (WPS) Committee, comprised of members Ashlee Ciliberti, Carmen Piza, Emily DiBenigno, Georgia Masell, Jodie Paul-Arndt, Kristi Gibson, Sarah Hauswirth, and Valena Bewry, has been very busy recently. In March of 2020, shortly before Yale transitioned to...
New Haven Hiring Initiative (NHHI) creates employment pathways for New Haven residents, particularly in neighborhoods with the highest rate of unemployment. The goal is to strengthen their candidacy and improve their chances of getting hired into regular roles at Yale. To support this effort,...
What are you most looking forward to doing once the pandemic is behind us?
Travelling freely. Travel! I didn’t really go many places before the pandemic, but to feel restricted has been difficult. Hugging lots of friends and family: Having numerous sleepovers with...HR Innovation and Strategic Support (HRISS) has been as busy as ever. In addition to Merit & Performance and Compensation reviews, which are currently underway, and their continued support around Return to Campus and other COVID-19 related initiatives, the team has been working on some new...
Looking to make your online conversations with colleagues a little more fun? Don’t suppress that impulse to send a birthday wish (“Blow out your candles!”) or to spread joy on a Friday (“Fri-yay!”). Here are four ways you can do it with...
Currently, Transport, Receiving & Storage (TR&S) delivers mail to 221 Whitney Avenue every Tuesday and picks up any campus mail and US mail with postage. Yale Printing & Publishing Services (YPPS) picks up unstamped US mail every Wednesday. Should you have any FedEx needs, please...
There is a new way to quickly track and verify compliance with Yale’s coursework, including compliance status (such as required COVID-19 training), course enrollments, and assessment questionnaire status. A recently launched (TMS) My Orgs Reporting page offers supervisors, lead administrators,...
Before the pandemic, the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) worked with departments to develop workplace emergency plans. The plan included what the department needed to do if a winter storm, tornado, or power outage occurred. Now that many in the Yale community are working from home offices,...
Please join us for the next installment of HRU Development Café, Supporting Healthy Emotional Regulation within Human Resources.
This virtual session will be held on Friday, February 12, from noon – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom, and registration is required* in advance of the session.
Marc...
The Yale Community loves to cook! Over 80 Yale staff, faculty, and graduate students shared their favorite recipes as part of the first Annual Winter Recipe Roundup. Family favorite submissions ranged from Nonna Cecilia’s Manicotti, Gram’s Easy One Pan Meal, to MeeMaw’s...
Thanks to everyone who helped young learners and their families by participating in the Women United Mayo School Supply Drive! Because of your support, 250 Mayo School students received remote learning supply kits. Teachers distributed the supplies to students and families the week of...
Special thanks to the almost 90 Yale staff, faculty and graduate students who submitted recipes. The winners will be announced in January 2021 on the It’s Your Yale homepage. At that time, a link will be published for the Yale Community to access or download the...
Yale Fleet Management was organized as an operation in 2009 under the leadership of George Longyear, Jr., Director of Yale Housing and Fleet Management. When Senior Fleet Administrator Ron Gitelman, joined the group in 2011, this small but mighty team of two set forth to position themselves and...
This winter, new time clocks will be installed near the existing time clocks used by Local 35 staff and temporary employees. Individuals that use the current time clocks will begin using the new clocks in summer 2021 as part of the Workday Time Tracking and Absence project. Please do not use the...
Pictured above from left to right: Diane Chandler, Marilyn Butanowicz, and Dresda Cotto - members of the I-9 Operations team working on-site to assist faculty, staff, and students with in-person I-9 verifications.
In the months since we have been working remotely, Yale has experienced a substantial increase in attempts to compromise NetIDs. This puts our intellectual property, faculty research data, and personal information at heightened risk. DUO Everywhere provides added protection by extending DUO MFA...
There have been many changes to the Yale campus and community since the start of the pandemic. The good news is some of these unexpected changes resulted in many green benefits, including less printing on campus. While we can’t tell you how much toilet paper was saved, we do have a few...
The NetID Activation and NetID Management screens, which can be accessed via the Central Authentication Service (CAS) login screen, have been updated to improve password security and meet Yale’s usability and accessibility guidelines.
Screen Design ChangesAn example of the new screen...
Five years ago, Yale Public Safety introduced the LiveSafe app to the campus community. During that time, over 16,000 Yale and New Haven community members have downloaded the app–turning their phones into mini safety devices. LiveSafe gives students, staff, and faculty on campus an...
Dear Colleagues,
I want to take a moment to recognize this year’s 2020 Long-Service Honorees within Human Resources & Administration. Although we were not able to celebrate in person this year, we are no less thankful for their dedication. Yale’s Long-Service staff members represent...
Microsoft Teams is now available to all Yale staff, and can be a useful tool to facilitate communications and sharing of information across teams and individuals.If you are interested in learning more about Microsoft Teams, join an online Zoom session to hear how members of the ITS community...
In a time when it’s easy to feel isolated, HR&A staff has risen to the occasion, finding new and creative ways to keep connected with colleagues.
Staffing and Career Development has kept in touch with monthly virtual happy hours—an opportunity for the team to catch-up, unwind,...
Dear Human Resources Colleagues,
Our HR Workplace Survey Action Planning Team has been working diligently to identify needs and opportunities for improvement based on our historical Workplace Survey results. Recently, the team partnered with Organizational Effectiveness and Staff...
All members of the Yale community have access to Microsoft Teams, a cloud-based communication and collaboration workspace that is part of Office 365. Whether you are part of a project team, study group, department, or workgroup, Teams makes it easy for individuals and groups to have...
Zoom has been rapidly releasing updates for their desktop and mobile Zoom app, to improve security and ease of use. It is critical that you take steps regularly to keep your desktop Zoom app up to date, as Zoom rarely forces updates. Default settings for mobile devices keep apps installed from...
While the Coronavirus pandemic has forced the majority of us to work from home, many individuals are making the best of it. Several staff members from Yale’s Human Resources are balancing work and childcare at home. They are trying new recipes, arts and crafts with family, and bringing...
