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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

An employer must take up professional advice as well as guidance for offering retirement benefits to employees. Golden handcuffs are specially designed to encourage long-term efficient relationships with the employees. Providing retirement benefits and plans require thorough professional assistance, which is too expensive.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. When one customer is responsible for the lion’s share of your sales, it’s like golden handcuffs. The challenge is to cast off the handcuffs while keeping the gold.

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

Strategy Driven

’ 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. Getting bad advice from the wrong people, mainly other tech professionals. Misplaced priorities and timelines. Refusal to change.