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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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You can’t get the best out of freelancers until you’ve honed your management processes. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication. Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion.

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5 Tips for Aspiring Female Venture Capitalists

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Today Kimmel serves as founder and managing partner of Worklife Ventures , a venture capital firm “designed for the new era” that invests in tools that power flexible, joyful and creative work. Being a woman in the industry just gives me a very different outlook, and the skills that I’m able to provide are very different as well.”

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Is Flexibility Going Away?

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The sunk cost fallacy can lead leaders to continue an unsuccessful hybrid workplace policy rather than getting needed advice and training to improve their approach. Before COVID-19, this company followed a traditional in-office work policy. CEOs intended to decrease remote work availability. By contrast, 5% planned to increase it.

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Why Aren’t Women Taking Their Vacation Days?

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is also the only industrialized nation which does not offer workers four weeks of paid leave (a benefit separate from vacation leave). Unsurprisingly (given the number of women it employs), education is one of the industries with the highest numbers of employees not taking paid time off. According to new research, 46% of U.S.

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Is a Widespread Return to Working in the Office on the Horizon?

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Lim also points to Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk: “He believes people are just pretending to work and abruptly ended Twitter’s work-from-anywhere policy via a late-night email and then did an about-face and closed Twitter’s Seattle and Singapore offices opting for a remote workforce.” Life happens.

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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

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In the early 2000s, Google encouraged an 80/20 policy, which gave employees the bandwidth to ideate, develop and innovate projects during 20% of their work schedule. Similarly, Slack, the social platform X (formerly known as Twitter) and Buffer all started as side projects. What is a passion project and why is it important?

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Free Webinar: Using Twitter to Grow Your Business

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Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. I will be moderating the session and I'm excited to hear about Twitter from these outstanding social media experts. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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