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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7%

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. The nation’s 73 million baby boomers (according to data estimates from the 2020 census ) are just starting to reach retirement age, yet they’re realizing that they can’t afford to retire.

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5 Ways Gen Z Will Shape Worklife In 2024

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As Gen Z (born approximately between 1997 and 2012) matures and enters the workforce, they bring with them a set of values , preferences , and technological fluency that has the potential to shape the workplace significantly. When it comes to the workforce composition, it’s useful to note that demographic shifts are gradual.

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Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unseen Force Behind His Legacy: His First Personal Secretary, Maude Ballou

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She is the Founder of the Admin Awards , created in 2012 and inspired by her mother, a retired Executive Secretary. King’s personal secretary in 1955, after initially declining several requests, shortly before the Montgomery Bus Boycott that put the civil rights movement on the map.

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An interview with Admin Awards Founder, Sunny Nunan, by Executive Support Magazine

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My mother, Jeannette Castellano, inspired the creation of the Admin Awards, which began back in 2012 in Dallas, Texas. When my mom retired just shy of her 80th birthday from the profession, she was given a scrapbook that was packed with pages of pictures, letters and writings about what she meant to her co-workers and organization.

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

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" While small farms are not going to replace large farms anytime soon, the USDA is projecting that the market for locally grown food will be about $7 billion by 2012, up steeply from $4 billion in 2002. agriculture went through a dramatic consolidation." This prevents automated programs from posting comments. View an alternate.

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GoDaddy Founder Bob Parsons Is in the Business of Helping Others Find Success

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In 1984, when he “wrote the code for my first business partner technology, which became a computer software home money-management program,” it enabled him to start his first business, Parsons Technology. I’m almost certain that I’m going to retire right after I am cremated,” he jokes. “I I love my PXG business, love it.

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