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4 Steps for Implementing Your Remote Work Policy

Chart Your Course

Thirty-seven percent of Americans telecommuted in 2015, a Gallup poll found. For legal and liability reasons, it’s important to have your human resources department design a clear and consistent remote work policy, says HR outsourcing provider Insperity. Working remotely is becoming increasingly common.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business Review

Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups. While our experiment provided guidelines for managers, it still allowed the managers to make the final decision on how much of the interventions to implement.

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