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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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Quiet Hiring: Admin Professional Trend

Bonnie Low-Krayman

As burnout, stress, and mental health issues increased to red alert levels due to poor onboarding and inadequate training, Quiet Quitting took hold in 2022. She offered a proposal for a revised onboarding plan to the HR team, including the fact that she would be the project leader with a revised salary to go along with the plan.

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the fisher price concept

Job Advice Blog

But because people need a job, they’ll continue to force it – and with a lot of hard work, sweat, and stress – it can be made to fit, but never very well and never for very long. Sign up for her free newsletter and receive a comprehensive resume report in return! She’s also been featured as an expert in numerous career books.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

This makes a stressful time even tenser. Go to your human resources department and ask to see your employee file so you can write down all of the job titles, dates, and salary details for each position you’ve held with your current company. They don’t have a network of professionals they can activate at a moment’s notice. Cover letter.

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On Performance Reviews, Mindfulness and Redefining What It Means to ‘Make It’

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I’ve worked with people who lived in homeless tent encampments who seem more content than people of my salary range. Possibly because the people of my salary range are looking up to millionaires. On weekdays I write a newsletter for 100,000 subscribers. to meet our copyeditor to send that morning’s newsletter at 6.

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