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Joining the Family Business—Without the Drama of HBO’s ‘Succession’

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Welcome back to the multigenerational workplace model. Following Greg’s passing in July 2019, Ben became the next generation to sit at Pratt & Tobin’s helm. Since taking over in 2019, our number of clients have gone up 50%,” Ben says. Louis, Missouri, serves as managing partner and trial attorney at Pratt & Tobin, P.C.,

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A Deep Dive Into the Positive and Negative Impacts of Gossip

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Is 2023 the year you’ve vowed to elevate your workplace etiquette? It’s also the amount of time the typical person spends per day gossiping in a 16-hour day, according to a May 2019 study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Fifty-two minutes equates to about two Emily in Paris episodes.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4 trillion.”

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Why the over 50s are leaving the workforce in huge numbers

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Of course, it could simply be that workers saved more during the pandemic and can now afford to retire in comfort earlier than planned. Surprisingly, the silver exodus is not concentrated in the richest segments of society – even though one might expect that they would be the most able to retire.

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UK will be only developed country in world with lower employment in 2023 than pre-pandemic

Workplace Insight

By early next year the UK is likely to be the only country in the developed world with lower employment than in 2019. This is being driven by a shrinking workforce – with 600 thousand more people ‘economically inactive’ than in 2019. Only Latvia and Switzerland have fared worse and both are improving fast.

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The constant craving to put numbers on working relationships

Workplace Insight

This phenomenon isn’t new, although it has gathered momentum as the digital workplace aligns in new ways with the physical office and other places of work. One of the first people to apply a number to working relationships was inevitably everybody’s favourite whipping boy when it comes to workplace theory.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. in which she shares practical tips for navigating the workplace. She is president emeritus of AIGA and was awarded the AIGA Medal for lifetime achievement in 2019. Cornish is the co-author of It’s Work!

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