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How to navigate the seismic shifts in workplace rules and roles in 2024

Work Life

Standalone, on-site workers include banking clerks, retail, manufacturing, processing, and food prep jobs and are classic candidates for automation or simplification and outsourcing.  Traditional back-office roles like accounting, finance, data entry, assembly, machine operators, and HR are becoming redundant.

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Mortification Week: the sleepover, the angry bees, and more

Ask a Manager

Phone interview for a bank role. “I had an interview for a retail company. “Many years ago I was temping, doing data entry in an accounting department. The looks on their faces were like I’d started stripping. They asked about how I would handle confidential information. Again, it’s daytime. The insult.

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new hire with a criminal record, backing out of a job offer, and more

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Quite a few states go further than that and require that for a conviction to be disqualifying, it must be relevant to the job in some way (for example, a bank might be able to disqualify someone for a theft conviction but not for a drug possession conviction). I do data entry and clerical stuff for an insurance broker.

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