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Complying with Family-Friendly Leave Policies Is Not Enough

Harvard Business Review

A managers’ challenge is how to take these “on the books” policies and move them beyond simple compliance to a place of executional excellence. In our work with employers, we find that when managers embrace new policies and regulations rather than grudgingly complying, they bring needed change to workplace culture.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. The Economy in 2018. percentage points to productivity growth in the period 2010 to 2014.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

As a percent of workers’ compensation, employers’ health care spending has held steady at between 8% and 9% since 2010. The proportion of workers with HDHPs (deductibles of more than $1,300/$2,600 for an individual/family) increased from 6% to 22% between 2006 and 2018.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries. The prognosis is not good.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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