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3 Awkward Money Conversations in the Workplace and How to Navigate Them

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While you share in your coworker’s happiness, does that mean you’re obligated to contribute to the gift collection that celebrates multiple, and often back-to-back, milestones? Not contributing to a gift should not negatively reflect on someone in the workplace. In my view, salary transparency is a must ,” Holman says. “In

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Why I Negotiated for a 4-Day Workweek Instead of a Raise

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Upon reflection, I’d realized that a salary bump would not improve my vitality, but more free time absolutely would. At its heart, the conversation was a re-frame: I was receiving a pay increase—the same salary for reduced hours—I just wouldn’t see the increase in my paycheck. The arrangement was a life-line; I could come up for air.

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A True Partnership: Olympia Dukakis and Bonnie Low-Kramen

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Olympia had a gift of making you feel as if you were the most important person in the room. Everything is negotiable. This includes salary but also having the contents of a hotel mini-bar removed and some of the excess furniture too. She was able to quasi-patiently tolerate the negotiating process and “let it cook.”.

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