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Work from Home Jobs That Are Not Scams

HR Digest

The number of people who work from home has increased by 140 percent since 2005. The job itself requires alone time and concentration that works best when you are operating from home. Filing of taxes, compliance norms, communications, checking, and cross-checking all can be done online. Recent research shows that 4.3 Accountant.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

Late last month, on the second anniversary of the story nearly to the day, Walmart released its first Global Compliance Report (GCR). Certainly an important goal for Walmart’s board and current management is to improve the company’s compliance capability. This step aims to bring appropriate expertise (e.g.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period. California is also delivering some big results. The program delivered $1.6

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

In their role of stewards of policy compliance, they can tend to be a brake on change. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. If few HR organizations take a proactive role in operational improvement, what is different about IBM?

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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The CEO of Kimberly-Clark on Building a Sustainable Company

Harvard Business Review

I shared our goals for 2005 with him. We require all of our suppliers to abide by the social compliance standards that we set. This was the first time we really put something down on paper. I also remember a meeting several years later with Mike Duke, who was then head of Wal-Mart’s international business.

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