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This New Travel Startup Wants To Plan Trips Around Workcations

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Luckily, there’s a new luxury travel app tapping into this market. . Origin is a new travel company that creates completely personalized trips with expert support. This app utilizes machine learning based on the user’s interests, values, and connections with other travelers. .

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New Bill Would Effectively Kill Remote Work For Federal Employees

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4266) on May 7, a bipartisan bill which proposes limiting telework for federal employees at 40% of their total work hours. Senators Mitt Romney and Joe Manchin introduced the “Back to Work Act” (S. Telework opportunities will continue impacting the federal workforce this year.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

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If you have a customer-is-always-right policy, describe what’s required to support it. We encourage people to propose new ideas even when they’re outside the scope of their traditional roles. Here are tips for building and sustaining a powerful remote culture: Identify, communicate, and support your cultural values .

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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I was traveling on business and planning to open a new franchise in the area, I said. As a Black professional, he had been through his own set of uncomfortable interactions traveling on business and was all too familiar with the array of characters you meet and the variety of tactics used to wiggle out of uncomfortable environments.

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4 important payroll issues to keep an eye on in 2023

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Proposed regulations covering white-collar employees were included in the Department of Labor’s spring 2022 semiannual regulatory agenda. General consensus: Proposed regs, if they ever are released, will raise the minimum salary employees must earn to remain exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This is prescient.

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Ask the Admin: Using a Travel Agency

Administrative Arts

Jacquelyn asks: I am accepting a position wherein I will have to make travel arrangements. I will need a step by step guide or a travel agency that will assist me. Will any of the travel agencies assist me in making travel arrangements. Using a Travel Agent. Why Use a Travel Agent. Choosing a Travel Agent.

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How to make your event more environmentally friendly

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So let’s encourage: Any exhibitors you have to travel light and to have simple exhibition stands. Your speakers and your attendees to travel by public transport. Also ask the hotel you are staying in what is there water bottle policy? You are under no obligation to book a venue proposed to you by Function Fixers.

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