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Reskilling: What is it and why is it important?

Insperity

For example, a retailer might reskill its in-store salespeople to work as remote customer service agents to support a change in focus from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce sales. She managed a group of women mathematicians working as “human computers” for the U.S. space program in the 1950s.

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The No. 1 Tip for Hiring a Successful Summer Intern

Insperity

Is there an open desk, computer, telephone, company email account and parking for them? The young person should also be invited to attend departmental and company meetings, sales calls and vendor presentations. Each intern will need a desk, computer, a telephone and a company email account, at a minimum. What will they work on?

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office coffee wars: share your stories

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Somebody in housekeeping whose responsibility is to manage cash logistics. Some other person in sales who hands out coffee, sugar, and milk (but needs a receipt for everything). That proposal has gone through the improvements committee (yes, that’s a thing), the sales people, the union, the CEO and back to the improvements committee.

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my boss threatened to sue me when I quit, Netflix on work laptops, and more

Ask a Manager

I’m just an office staff member and they have never required any of us to sign them, only the sales force. It’s a small change but it leaves out the “I had an opportunity to take some time off” and just frames it as dealing with normal life/move logistics. Netflix on a work computer.

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the 18-month coffee debate, and other stories of office coffee wars

Ask a Manager

Somebody in housekeeping whose responsibility is to manage cash logistics. Some other person in sales who hands out coffee, sugar, and milk (but needs a receipt for everything). That proposal has gone through the improvements committee (yes, that’s a thing), the sales people, the union, the CEO and back to the improvements committee.

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How Employee Perks Can Help Companies in the US

Vantage Circle

Dell , a prominent computer company, fully embraced technology when it initiated its flexible work culture in 2009. As the seventh-largest private firm in the nation, Publix boasts impressive sales totaling $27.5 How to Offer? Presently, Dell provides flexible work schedules, enabling employees to work remotely and at varying hours.

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The hidden truth behind job market numbers and how they influenced the vote

Work Life

This can be seen via decreased sales in industries such as auto repair—car owners pinching pennies by making simple fixes themselves—and decreased loan performance in American borrowers. Many indicators, such as small business retail sales appearing up 2.1%