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How Hiring Virtual Assistants Can Boost Employee Performance and Work-Life Balance

Success

Masarweh says it’s a way to better allocate employees’ time, especially when they have special skills, so you aren’t paying high salaries for basic administrative tasks. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Many companies approached Assistantly for help.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

Success

I got a job as a junior features writer with the Indian edition of a teen magazine on a monthly salary of Rs 6,000 (approximately $80), more than half of which went into rent. Having outgrown pop culture and travel listicles, this had been my most challenging assignment. Dinners were skipped or consisted of a cheap street meal.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

Success

I had intended to ask him about how he started Bonton Farms , an urban farm he founded in a South Dallas food desert more than a decade ago after abandoning a cozy corporate job and six-figure salary. A food desert is an urban community whose residents need to travel a mile or more to get to a grocery store. So, we had the right one.

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Getting buy in from the boss

Practically Perfect PA

Magazine Subscriptions. Salary Increase. Magazine Subscriptions: In the past when I asked for subscriptions to magazines to be paid by the company I made a point of bringing in the magazine and showing the value that it gave to me. Internal & External Training. Membership to Networking Clubs & Associations.

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8 Signs Your Company May Have Received Government Bailout Money

On The Job

There have been many requests for a piece of the bailout pie from lots of companies, including Hustler magazine and the guy from "Girls Gone Wild." Company memo says that while the holiday party for employees was canceled because of costs, the executives will be traveling to Paris for a Valentine's Day getaway with significant others.

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Shaq Insists He’s Not a Celebrity

Success

Nobody travels more than me.”. He thanked his mother, who raised him on a secretary’s salary when his biological father left them. This article originally appeared in the May/June 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. “When it gets to half, put in 20. Then when it gets back to half, you put in 20.”. It’s the same amount of gas!”

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“EAs Need Better Press.” Agreed. Solving the EA PR Problem Once and For All

Bonnie Low Kramen

Until March, 2020 brought travel to a screeching halt, I had worked in 14 countries and 38 states. Do the research on your salary. Given a choice, advocate for salary versus hourly compensation. In our current environment, the issue has gotten more complicated because of the invisibility factor of working from home. Not so fast.

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