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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

Success

Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a big city or small town. John was 53 when the bad news hit: His department was being moved offshore. Now, he was out of a job. Flexibility.

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Book Review: Baby Bust

Small Business Labs

  But by 2012 only 42% of the students surveyed said they planned to have kids.   The 2012 cohort of students see a work world that is intensely competitive and time consuming.  Because of this, they don't think they will have time to be good parents. .   But the news is not all bad. .

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Demand for Butlers Keeps Growing

Small Business Labs

 We wrote a follow-up article on this topic in 2012 after we learned high end nannies in New York and London could make more than $200,000 per year in total compensation.   Salaries for these jobs aren't bad. We first wrote about the growing demand for butlers in 2007. But the butler boom continues to grow.

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What can assistants expect in 2013

Practically Perfect PA

Well 2012 is over and done with and we are now already two days into 2013. If in 2012 you did not attend any events or training sessions then you should speak to your manager or HR immediately to get something booked for 2013. Salary and financial reward . The relationship between assistant and manager .

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Customer satisfaction for retailers at all time high

Service Untitled

Perhaps one of the more interesting conundrums of the report stated that eight of the ten retailers with the worst customer satisfaction scores were among the 20 top retailers in 2012. Part of the problem of low scores come from employee feedback where lack of benefits and competitive salaries evoke mediocre to low reviews from the staff.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

It costs a company 6-9 months of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. That number has increased from age 42 in 2012. When she was hired, her manager said she would be on track for promotions and salary increases but in three years, she was overlooked numerous times. These reasons are easily accepted without question.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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So although more money doesn’t necessarily make you happier (see the discussion of salaries below in “Happiness Roadblocks”), more happiness just might make you more money. “Tell me about your mother.”. Freud’s idea of the “talking cure” remained unchallenged for decades. in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness.

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