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How to negotiate a higher salary

HR Digest

And so, it is a reflection of how your company supports your work-life balance, flextime, opportunities for growth and promotion, perks, and so forth. Training & development: Training and development can play a monumental role in equipping career-driven individuals with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their role.

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With Flextime, Bosses Prefer Early Birds to Night Owls

Harvard Business Review

Flextime programs have never been more popular than they are today. Yet the question lingers of whether employees who take advantage of flexible work policies incur career penalties for doing so. make the case that depending on what the manager attributes the flextime use to, the employee may be either rewarded or penalized.

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Flextime Is Declining, But “Flex Around the Edges” Is Up

Harvard Business Review

Are such “right to request” laws indicators of a rise in flextime? Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? New research from the Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the Society for Human Resource Management finds an “on the one hand, on the other hand” contradiction.

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Be Flexible, Attract Talent

Marshall Goldsmith

With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. So what are some of the best practices around flexible work and flextime? In this time of economic uncertainty, the pressure to control costs is at a peak.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). The timing of the request also helped my friend; there had recently been conspicuous turnover among mid-career professionals at this firm. Human resources Managing people Work life balance'