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This workplace perk may boost your employees’ morale

Work Life

” Jim Christy co-owns Midwest Cards, a trading card retailer based in Columbus, Ohio, with about 30 employees. He decided to give logistics-side workers Friday afternoons off while the six staff who work on the brick-and-mortar side and do customer service for online orders get off on Mondays, when the store was closed.

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Reskilling: What is it and why is it important?

Insperity

For example, a retailer might reskill its in-store salespeople to work as remote customer service agents to support a change in focus from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce sales. A subset of reskilling, called upskilling , can help prepare your people for major changes in their current roles.

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The Role of HR in Performance Management

Vantage Circle

Zubair Bhura is a Master’s degree qualified senior HR professional with 10+ years of demonstrated Human Resources experience in Australia with a proven history of working with distinct ownership models and global/multi-national organisations spanning unionised & non-unionised environments including Retail & FMCG, Fast Food, Hospitality and (..)

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I have way too much vacation time, asking my husband’s boss to secretly okay time off, and more

Ask a Manager

The nature of my position does not allow for extended absences or longer vacations, especially working in a small department with a workload that is heavily based in customer service. I’m at a loss as to what to do.