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Workplace Happiness Is at an All-Time High—But There’s Still Room for Improvement

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By comparison, in 2010, after the Great Recession, there was an all-time low in satisfaction rates, at 42.6%. A gender ‘gap’ in satisfaction Like many things in the comparison between men and women at work, everything isn’t equal, including the satisfaction rate. The results show just over 62% of U.S. in the previous year.

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The Right Way to Share Problems at Work With Your Boss 

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There are numerous reasons employees might not speak up at work, from fearing backlash from bosses in charge of their promotions and salary to worrying about how it will impact their reputation. Just as you would negotiate a salary with comparisons, it is important to highlight data that could benefit the implementation of your idea.

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It now costs more to commute by train than by car in the UK

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percent from the beginning of March, Good Travel Management has look into the cost of commuting into the UK’s major cities to find out how much it’s really costing people to get to work. By comparison, rail commuters can expect to pay £91.30 By comparison, rail commuters can expect to pay £91.30 With rail fares increasing by 4.9

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Furthering Your Education on a Budget

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If you only have a vague notion of how much your salary stands to increase before beginning this work (or haven’t considered it at all), take some time to do so before you formally sign up for anything. Ask your manager or human resources department at work if they offer tuition reimbursement. Look into employer tuition reimbursement.

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How different European countries tax working from home

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No other of the eleven nations examined by The Mobile Bank N26 manages to match the Belgians in this regard. This tax-free addition to the employer’s salary makes Belgium the nation where employees can get the highest refunds across all included countries. Ireland, in comparison, handles things a bit differently.

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Three quarters of people who left their pre-covid employer now want to go back

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82 percent of those surveyed admitted to staying in some form of contact with a previous manager – with almost a third stating that this was for the primary purpose of keeping the door open for future job opportunities (29 percent). I’m afraid managers/employers need to swallow their pride here. “In

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Everyone Pays When Companies Don’t Live up to Their Organizational Purpose

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According to Wendy Salomon, vice president of reputation management at Nielsen (via Harris Poll) , “An industry’s reputation paints all the companies within it with a broad brush.”. For a direct comparison look no further than Financial Services, whose reputation is now slightly higher than that of the pharmaceutical firms (see Fig 1).

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