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Jamie Fiore Higgins on Workplace Toxicity, Gender Discrimination and Why She Left Wall Street

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Jamie Fiore Higgins worked on Wall Street for nearly 20 years—from 1998 to 2016—and by the end of her career, she’d amassed a small fortune. By 2016, she was making 40 times more than her house cleaner and 10 times more than her doctor. I want my four kids to have their own sense of agency. You are the CEO of your own career.

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Poor air quality affects chess players, and it might be affecting you too

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Exposure to such concentrations is common in many cities around the world and is classified as moderate to unhealthy by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Research that I co-authored in 2016 into the effects of short-term indoor and outdoor PM2.5 Throughout the tournaments, concentrations of PM2.5 For a modest increase in PM2.5 (10

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Major built environment institutes renew joint pledge to tackle global instability as cities boom 

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Members of the UK Built Environment Advisory Group (UKBEAG), a group first launched in 2016 comprising the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and the Landscape Institute (LI), have committed to work together for at least another 5 years.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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in which she shares practical tips for navigating the workplace. Formerly, she held the position of associate director, multicultural marketing at CoActive Marketing Group (US Concepts/Urban Concepts Agency). She received the Sojourner Truth Award by the National Congress of Black Women. Cornish is the co-author of It’s Work!

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. She started everything from scratch.

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Insurer Puts Integrity in its Name and Appreciation at its Core

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It’s the break room—a workday getaway—at American Integrity Insurance Group (AI), a company that has built a Top Workplaces culture that it protects and carefully cultivates with innovative approaches to recruiting, the creation of “extraordinary experiences,” and a focus on gratitude. AI’s Healthy Workplace Culture Starts at the Top.

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Katie Burke: A Winning Workplace Culture Starts with Time, Love, and Attention

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How HubSpot Earned the Top Workplaces Award Seven Years Straight. The 10-year-old Massachusetts-based company, virtually synonymous with inbound marketing, has more than 20,000 customers in 90 countries along with some 3,100 agency partners. Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, co-founders of the award-winning Top Workplace, HubSpot.

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