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Shaq Insists He’s Not a Celebrity

Success

When he eats at restaurants, he leaves famously humongous tips. He thanked his mother, who raised him on a secretary’s salary when his biological father left them. He bought Google stock on the first offering, when the company was valued at $100 million. Today Google’s parent company is worth more than $1 trillion.

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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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Livia Martini- Chief People Officer at Gympass| The Evolution of Corporate Wellness

Allwork

And many of them even say that the well being or the efforts of well being is equally important to salary. Well, I’m going to go to work for Google because they use gympas instead of Microsoft because they don’t. So this is at 93% of people, which to me is incredible. Do people really make a decision? Heaven forbid.

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I’m telling my friends about the bad customer service

Service Untitled

How many of us really take the time to sit down and Google all of the information we need to make a formal complaint when a business treats us poorly? One size does not fit all in the people pleasing category, but all too often customer service jobs start out as entry-level positions with entry-level salaries.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have asked for a raise however, but it was after I considered a move somewhere else and wasnt sure I wanted to go, so gave my employer a chance to match the new salary and they did. I think that during the process of your performance appraisal it would be a good time to bring it up, but I never have. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

The Small Business Blog

One of the obstacles I came up against was that I had to order wine in serious ‘bulk’ I naively thought I could order a couple of cases from a few hand picked wine farms and start my ’small business’ by selling these cases to restaurants, gaining trust and loyalty and slowly building up a customer base.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

When their readers don’t actually know what they do, because they never visit the site, they simply open Google Reader or their email for the RSS feed. That salary came from advertising purchased by business to air on my station. I make less than I did when I was salaried. A dangerous thing, I know. I apologize.)

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