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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

The results: Increased productivity and creativity; improved recruitment and retention; less burnout for founders and leaders; and more balanced and sustainable lives for workers — all without cutting salaries or sacrificing customer service. As a result, companies didn’t cut salaries when they reduced hours.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. She received the biggest salary of her lifetime with all kinds of perks. Yes, thank goodness for that because assistants have brainpower that goes way beyond those basic duties.

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How to overcome the downsides of contract work

Page Personnel

In early 2019, throughout my vacation to Jogjakarta, Indonesia, I worked for at least four out of five nights I was there. Just remember that phone of yours does have silent mode. As a result, you do start viewing public holidays and annual leave differently. If you are, you’ll please neither.

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12 Habits of Genuine People

Success

According to the same research, people with high EQs make $29,000 more annually than people with low EQs, 90% of top performers have high EQs and a single-point increase in your EQ adds $1,300 to your salary. They put away their phones. This article was published in April 2019 and has been updated. I could go on and on.