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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

The employer has the right to change as well as terminate the qualified retirement benefit plan or even discontinue operations; thereby abandoning the policy restricting it for only business requirements. Golden parachutes: This is an agreement between the companies and the key professionals.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

The group was diverse: I spoke with a 39-year-old managing director of a large investment bank, a failing self-employed photographer, a millionaire entrepreneur, and a Fortune 500 CEO. Whoever called them golden handcuffs wasn't joking. I wish I had quit earlier.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Communications.