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How the Courts Define Discrimination

Insperity

In general, common sense goes a long way, but legal rulings can throw a curve ball in the game of understanding how employees should be treated. Hewlett-Packard had a case of a Christian employee who posted anti-gay passages in his cubicle. Stay on top of new rulings, whether through e-mail blasts or consultants and attorneys.

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7 Steps for Successfully Setting Up a Remote Office

Launch Work Places

Would a traditional office setup with cubicles work best, or would an open, flexible space be more conducive to collaboration and productivity? It’s ideal for legal professionals and other service-oriented businesses. Gather input from your team and discuss their preferences.

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7 Steps for Successfully Setting Up a Remote Office

Launch Work Places

Would a traditional office setup with cubicles work best, or would an open, flexible space be more conducive to collaboration and productivity? It’s ideal for legal professionals and other service-oriented businesses. Gather input from your team and discuss their preferences.

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boyfriend’s employer keeps wrecking our plans, company doesn’t care about customer threats, and more

Ask a Manager

Is this legal? Our office “Nosey Rosey” has recently been going into peoples cubicles/offices when they aren’t around. The convention of listing a street address goes back to the days when employers might contact you by postal mail — it’s really no longer necessary at all, and loads of people have stopped doing it.

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asking a resigning employee to leave more quickly, banned from eating at my desk, and more

Ask a Manager

The former accounting lady at my old company called me a week ago, asking me to mail her a business card (I was a freelancer there for about a 1-1/2 years; I work in recording studios). However, anyone with an office or who sits in a cubicle away from the front counter can. No, this is not discrimination in the legal sense.

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interviewers didn’t leave me any time to ask my own questions, my boss wants to sue me for quitting, and more

Ask a Manager

and you didn’t have a legally binding contract committing to staying for a specific period of time or provide a certain amount of notice (which would be an unusual thing to have in the U.S.), I work several cubicles away from my manager who prefers to print out work to review rather than review it on a computer.

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the flasher, the scathing tirade, and other stories of magnificent rage-quits

Ask a Manager

“I worked at a law firm where almost every single legal assistant rage quit. ’ Cue everyone popping up out of their chairs like meerkats to see who it was (it was a cubicle farm, so no privacy at all). ’ from behind their cubicle wall and everyone would laugh. I still don’t regret it.” It was spectacular.”

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