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The Peril of Untrained Entry-Level Employees

Harvard Business Review

First the bad news: most of those employers aren’t doing much to provide their new hires with the training and support they need to get their careers off to a strong start. More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. But that’s just not true. The first is genuine part-time work that can be done from home.

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3 Ways Tech Companies Are Offering Parental Leave

Harvard Business Review

A 2013 study by Laurie S. This fuels attrition : mothers often leave their employers not because they have lost their career commitment, but because their employers assume they have—and good work dries up. That’s a recipe for losing women who return from maternity leave only to find their careers sidelined.