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It’s time to review (or create) your document retention policy

BMT Office Administration

Worried that your company might not have a particular document on hand if the IRS conducted an audit? They create a document retention policy that clarifies what needs to be saved, where, and for how long. Courts and government agencies frown upon individual employees selectively keeping or tossing important documents.

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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Knowing what to keep and the location of each document is vital to easy retrieval and to maintaining compliance with government and industry regulations. While some variance may occur between companies, certain papers commonly belong in these files and some definitely do not. Recruiting and screening documents. Cover letter.

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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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She was put on medication and had to take a few weeks off from work. For example, in a 2022 study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging , researchers noted that racial discrimination had a negative impact on human health—specifically, it had the potential to increase the risk for medical disorders.

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I Shared My OCD Struggles with 11,000 Employees—Their Responses Showed Me the Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership

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The medications I was on and the behavioral therapies I had been taught were no longer working. I sent the marked-up document back to her. No company or team can function at its highest capacity without vulnerable leaders. But at that point, my OCD began to manifest itself in different ways. I said, “No.”

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Generative AI could help UK workers save 19 million hours a week by 2026

Workplace Insight

The authors claim that by augmenting basic tasks with generative AI, companies and their workers can reallocate time to focus on the high value ‘work that humans do best’: strategic thinking, collaboration, caring for others, decision making, innovation, problem solving, empathy, leadership.

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Do I Need to Buy Life Insurance?

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Life insurance is a contract between you and an insurance company to provide a lump sum of money to your heirs after your death. In exchange, you pay the insurance company a monthly or yearly premium. If you die while the policy is in effect, the insurance company will pay the agreed-upon amount, or death benefit, to your heirs.

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

BMT Office Administration

Besides complying with federal and state laws, keeping employee records helps you stay organized, aids decision-making, and protects your company if a terminated employee files a lawsuit. While it’s clear that you need to keep a separate file for each employee, which documents should you include in it?

Filing 52