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Wild Office Holiday Party Statistics | 2022

HR Digest

However, it’s only an understatement to say that office holiday party statistics are as wild and interesting as they occur on the rooftops of corporate houses. According to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, 85% of US companies hold office holiday parties for their employees. This is up from 3.8

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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it. Britain is well ahead of schedule. Contingency budgets are $1.4

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Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employee continuum.