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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

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In the early 2000s, Google encouraged an 80/20 policy, which gave employees the bandwidth to ideate, develop and innovate projects during 20% of their work schedule. Similarly, Slack, the social platform X (formerly known as Twitter) and Buffer all started as side projects. What is a passion project and why is it important?

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4 Challenges in Navigating Remote Work Layoffs

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Companies must have clear policies and procedures in place to ensure that this process is as smooth and efficient as possible. For example, different states may have different requirements for notice periods, severance packages, and unemployment benefits. Cognitive biases can be especially problematic in assessing performance.

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What Happened When I Avoided the News for 30 Days

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This kind of media avoidance is actually a rather popular method for reducing media strain on our mental health. If you expose yourself to less media and reduce the degree to which you fill your mind with pollutants—politics, controversy, natural disasters and tragedy, for example—your mental health may improve, as the thinking goes.

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The Future of Work Whitepaper

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When it comes to policies surrounding remote work, it’s important to move beyond simple business continuity and look instead at how EAs and leaders can work together to ensure the business grows and thrives, says Colleen Affeldt, Managing Director of RGT Wealth Advisors. The Future of Work Whitepaper.

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8 Work-Life Balance Myths

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Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. Many companies offer their work-life balance policies to employees at all levels. Participation in family-friendly policies is a career-limiting move. Management will lose control.

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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

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Six points for merchants : Make protection of personal information a company priority; designate someone in your business to coordinate privacy policies and practices. For example, Social Insurance Numbers are rarely needed for retail transactions. Information on your computers should be password protected with adequate safeguards.

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How to be an Effective Mentor

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Mentoring can be one of the most effective means of teaching: inviting someone to learn from the example of another with more experience. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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