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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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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?

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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

In my opinion, technology should definitely be part of the solution, but it can’t be the entire solution. Here’s how you can implement color coding: Physical Files : Use colored folders or labels to differentiate between different projects or document types. And it helps build confidence and trust with everyone you work with.

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The 43 Folders Method (Paper System)

Office Dynamics

This information is in our Executives and Assistants Working In Partnership: The Definitive Guide to Success. Keep the daily files in front, beginning with the file for tomorrow’s date. The files that follow all represent the rest of the days of the month in the correct order (12 through 31). The “round file.”

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Why You Need a Work Journal

Eat Your Career

You can definitely go far beyond that—and when you do, the work journal becomes even more powerful. If you’re worried about it falling into the wrong hands, take extra precautions to password protect your files or take your journal home rather than keeping it at your desk. Of course, that’s just the beginning. Be sure to keep it safe.

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Reviewing Your Administrative Career

Office Dynamics

I personally learned a lot from that breakout session. Having one binder or online file of past performance evaluations, thank you notes and emails from coworkers, clients, etc., Pride in your work and recognizing the skills you have worked hard to learn help create a job you truly enjoy and want to be a part of.

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Hybrid Work Models and Office Reintegration

Allwork

External benchmarks definitely indicate offering more remote work facilitates both retention and recruitment. Retention offers a clear-to-measure hard success metric, one both quantitative and objective. A related metric, recruitment, is a softer metric: it’s harder to measure and more qualitative in nature.

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