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Most people want to work in jobs that have a positive impact on the world

Workplace Insight

The survey of more than 1,000 workers and job seekers and 500 employers in the UK, highlights the ongoing green skills challenge. Despite challenges with pay, just over a quarter of respondents say they would take a salary cut for a job that contributes to sustainability initiatives.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. I have read and agree that ageism exists in the workplace. She received the biggest salary of her lifetime with all kinds of perks. She is living it up.

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

Bonnie Low Kramen

Create your own accurate and detailed job description that highlights your achievements and skills. Do the research on your salary. Given a choice, advocate for salary versus hourly compensation. Let your skills do the talking. There are so many changes happening in our workplace right now. Be visible.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

A quick look at diversity in the workplace Between 1970 and 1997, after such screens had become embraced for blind auditions, the odds that a woman would advance beyond “certain preliminary rounds” of a tryout increased by 50%, according to a 2000 study published in the American Economic Review. Start at the top. Former Intel CEO Brian M.

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A bit of alien thinking on coffee and some other BS

Workplace Insight

I’ve sometimes highlighted how our perceptions of the workplace are subject to an apex fallacy. Occasionally we can glimpse this reality away from the media distortions and sometimes it surfaces in one of the many studies we publish on Workplace Insight. They work in adequate or possibly nice offices.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

And what if we could radically transform the workplace to reflect the answers to these questions so that fewer staff quit? It costs a company 6-9 months of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. They are, in this order; Respect for their unique talents and skills. What’s Stopping Us? That is just for one person.

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