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How to Negotiate Severance: Tips and Strategies for the Modern Workforce

Success

Kogut, a licensed attorney based out of Washington, shed light on the process, debunking misconceptions and providing essential advice to allow employees to confidently enter their severance negotiations. Kogut clarifies that employees are only “due” severance if it is promised in an employment contract, handbook or policy.

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The AI Revolution Liberating Workers From The Office

Allwork

As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated and autonomous, questions arise about who is legally responsible when an AI system makes an error or causes harm. This could lead to unfair treatment of certain individuals or groups, resulting in legal and ethical concerns.

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Only a quarter of firms say that staff will need to work full time from an office in future

Workplace Insight

The research found a clear divide between different sectors, with business-to-business services firms (such as the finance and legal sectors) more likely to expect remote working. 47 percent anticipate their staff to be mostly in-person, 16 percent expect mostly remote and 8 percent fully remote.

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The Perils Of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Training

Allwork

It also found that more men than women reported taking legal action when they experienced harassment (but were less likely to do so when the perpetrator was someone more senior). According to HR consultants ERC , a harassment claim settled out of court can cost a company between $75,000 and $125,000 — and that’s just the legal fees. .

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Benefits of outsourcing HR for small businesses

BMT Office Administration

Creating company policies: Crafting policies from scratch can be difficult, especially in a small business. HR service providers will have well-crafted, legally tested policy recommendations that can be customized for your business.

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Ep 247: Email Management for Executive Assistants

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

This episode features an excerpt from my audiobook, The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant. Unless your company has a policy requiring you to delete emails, archive them. You’re more equipped to be a confident, game- changing Leader Assistant when you live inside your executive’s inbox.

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Leading and Working with a Multi-VA Team

Denise Aday

I’m very cognizant of such boundaries, both from a legal and a respect standpoint. When team members eventually move on though, I want the clients that worked with them to feel confident staying with our company. Here again, adding value and increasing confidence by staying visible. I tend to agree for the most part.