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Dry promotions: Definition, considerations, and guidelines for employers

BMT Office Administration

If you’re not familiar with the term or are unsure whether your company is guilty of using dry promotions in a manner that can hurt employee morale, read up on the definition of the term below and explore some common examples of dry promotions. What is a dry promotion? When and why do companies give employees dry promotions?

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5 Ways to Make the Daylight Saving Time Transition Smoother

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Sugar comes in so many forms, so it’s important to read your nutrition labels and know the many different aliases of sugar.” When you have that terrible hangry feeling, that can lead to poor food choices, which will definitely affect your energy and sleep.” Sugar causes spikes in our glucose levels, which lead to 2 p.m.

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Reviewing Your Administrative Career

Office Dynamics

a copy of your resume, examples of projects completed such as forms, spreadsheets, graphs, etc. Reviewing your career experience encourages you to bring your skills and experience to your current employer and helps you create a definition of career purpose. I personally learned a lot from that breakout session.

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

BMT Office Administration

While some variance may occur between companies, certain papers commonly belong in these files and some definitely do not. Health insurance forms. Pay authorization forms. Payroll deduction forms. Keep I-9 forms in a separate file. You must keep a completed Form I-9 on file for each employee on your payroll.

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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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In a study published in Psychological Science , Princeton psychologists Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov reveal that it takes only a tenth of a second to form an impression of someone when you first meet. If we were with you right now, we would definitely give you a high-five. Two additional studies give us a whopping seven seconds.

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How to Get Ahead at Work Without a College Degree

Eat Your Career

While I definitely believe a college degree can give you a leg up in the working world, not having a college degree is not necessarily a career killer. There are many forms of education in this world; a college degree is only one—and it’s not even necessarily the best one in every circumstance. Get Professional Certifications.

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

BMT Office Administration

If so, then you’ll definitely want to have the proper documents on-hand to defend your managers. 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. Also, you’re legally obligated to retain these records for at least one year by the EEOC.

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