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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Setting up employee personnel files is an important part of the recordkeeping process. However, sometimes people mistakenly think of these files as a catch-all for an individual’s paperwork. Rather, understand that general personnel files serve a distinct purpose. What to include in an employee’s personnel file.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Now imagine taking all the files out of the folders in your computer and dumping them on the desktop. Programs, documents, videos, audio files—you put thousands of stored items randomly on top of each other. To train your brain, White explains that you must install folders on it. Think of your brain in a new way.

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

While dealing with lots of paperwork doesn’t rank as most HR professionals’ favorite task, proper recordkeeping for employee personnel files is a must for any organization. In addition, if an employee is involuntarily let go, their employee file must be kept for one year following the termination date. Why is that?

Filing 52
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Stacey Abrams’ New Co-Authored Book Details the Struggles Black Entrepreneurs Still Face and Why Business Partnership Differences Can Be Your Superpower

Success

Despite a record uptick in new business filings during the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurship has been on a troubling downward slide for years. They dip into retirement savings, run up credit card debt or ramp up slowly while juggling day jobs.

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E-Receipts vs. Paper Receipts

Eco-Office Gals

E-receipts are easy to generate through an effective credit card processing solution that issues the e-receipt to the customer’s email address at their request. The strategy of issuing e-receipts aligns with tablet POS (point of sale) credit card processing in particular. photo by: ben_osteen.

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Employee Monitoring: How to (and not to) track employee productivity

BMT Office Administration

If you’ve ever called a customer support line, you’ve likely heard the classic automated phrase, “This call may be recorded for quality assurance or training purposes.”. Companies would record customer support calls to ensure customer satisfaction and use them for future employee training. Time tracking and file tracking.

Filing 52
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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

            Peter Coombs FRONTLINE Training & Consulting. OneNote: My Filing Cabinet In The Clouds. create notebooks and files just like I would with paper, but now it is all organized on my computer. I plug directly into my MacBookPro and use Audacity or Garage Band to edit the file.