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How employee resource groups can help employees and your business

Insperity

To avoid the appearance of having employer-sponsored unions: Don’t let managers or executive sponsors directly control employee resource group meetings or events, or make decisions for the group. Once executive leadership has approved, you’ll need to create the process by which employees can apply to start groups. Employer-sponsored unions.

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Workplace violence prevention: 8 tips to improve office safety

Insperity

Is there a government office on the floor above you? To that end, resist the urge to cover your windows with advertisements, signs, posters or decorations. Set strict guidelines for controlling cash. Do the other businesses around leave you more vulnerable? Are you located next door to a bank that could be robbed?

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Here’s how companies are leveraging generative AI to enhance established business tools

Work Life

As with all cloud-based systems, big companies also have concerns about security, and a desire to understand and control what sensitive data is shared with the systems. We’ve selected the firms making the biggest impact across 58 categories, including advertising, artificial intelligence, design, sustainability, and more.

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Employee or Independent Contractor? How to Properly Classify Your Workers and Ensure Compliance

Insperity

Since companies pay less in payroll taxes for independent contractors versus employees, the government is determined and quick to identify mislabeled workers. The IRS encourages you to consider facts related to behavioral control, financial control and the relationship type as a way of testing a worker’s classification.

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3 leadership red flags Elizabeth Holmes should have raised—and how you can spot them yourself

Work Life

The company routinely ignored quality-control failures and test errors and showed a complete disregard for the well-being of patients.” Ordinary people who had had experiences with Theranos’s testing, such as doctors and patients from the Phoenix area, complained about everything from false advertising to mistaken testing.

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Smart technology needs to start with people if it wants to get smarter

Workplace Insight

First was Google’s decision in the heat of the dot-com crash to switch its model from unbiased search results to results supported by advertisements. The one control that should be meaningful is regulation. This was not their original intention.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

Mad in America

The NIMH ran advertisements in the media, and Eli Lilly helped pay for the printing and distribution of 8 million DART brochures titled “Depression: What You Need to Know.” There were other discouraging findings that kept popping up at this time in government-funded research. It’s like antibiotics.”

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