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Scientist and Engineer Rosalind Picard Is Transforming Digital Health with Wearable AI

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These internet-connected devices not only include desktops and laptops but our phones and wearables as well, says Picard, founder and director of the MIT Media Lab’s affective computing research group. So, we tried very hard to get things out there in a form that helped improve people’s lives.”

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

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Besides that, your confidential medical records will let you know if any team members have disabilities that you need to consider when planning and assigning tasks. Besides the EEOC, the IRS also has requirements for employee documents, including which forms you need to have for each employee, such as W-4s.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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4 Smart Money Moves to Plan for Financial Security

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A survey by Insider and Morning Consult from 2019 showed that millennials were more likely to put off buying houses, making career moves, undergoing medical procedures and even getting hitched—all because of cash-related reasons. That’s because when we delay organizing our finances, it causes us to delay a lot of other things, too.

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How to Boost Online Sales

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An email sign-up form with a promise of something in return: This can be a discount code, free e-book or video related to your business, access to a free consultation or another giveaway. Not every business should sell directly online , but every business website should at least generate sales leads.

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

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Technology-related procrastination is relatively easy to stop by implementing a no-phone policy during the workday. If managers catch employees constantly playing on their phones instead of working, they can take disciplinary action. Another form of procrastination at work is presenteeism, which often gets misunderstood.

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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

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His mouth is blocked by a powder-blue medical face mask, but I can see a smile forming in his eyes. After a few minutes of warm cuddling, I check my phone to see the time. We’re standing in the old stairwell of the hospital parking garage. Paint peels from the walls. Rain trickles down the window beside us. “OK, Oh my god!”

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