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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

Work Life

The new year is fast approaching, and between ongoing labor shortages and financing challenges, industry leaders will need to do their homework before making critical business decisions around hiring next year. That means getting a bird’s-eye view of our current economic landscape—as well as close-up of its terrain.

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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

Work Life

“That severance package,” he says, “gave me the confidence to not sweat bullets after leaving a high-paying finance job.” Determining the industry standard While not everyone seeking severance is leaving a high-paying finance job, not much has changed in terms of the severance pay-to-tenure ratio since Dogen negotiated his in 2012.

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6 women on what they learned about starting a business in midlife

Work Life

That was the case for Lautenberg, who started her career in finance and left the workforce to raise her three children for sixteen years before co-founding Evolve.Me with Schoenberg. She’s seeing many of her peers and colleagues do the same thing, saying “they’re burnt out with their journey in corporate America.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

Mad in America

It was an NIMH-financed trial, which randomised 1,493 “real-world” patients with schizophrenia to olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone or ziprasidone, or to a very old drug, perphenazine, marketed in 1957. STAR*D was also financed by the NIMH. 17:58 For CATIE, there were 191 records on PubMed. It is a remarkable story of fraud.

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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

Work Life

the Japanese company that owns Uniqlo, Theory, J Brand and other clothing brands, pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co., The trend even has gained traction in the notoriously consuming finance industry. Fast Retailing Co., and electronics companies Ricoh Co. and Hitachi also began offering a four-day workweek in recent years.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. How would it finance itself?

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Ready for a Flexible Work Arrangement as a Parent? Here’s How to Negotiate Better Hours

Success

Along with this, findings show that mental health, and the ability to balance everything from household workloads to relationships to finances, are top concerns. Create your own boundaries from the start Gina Newton, a pharmaceutical consultant-turned-spiritual lifestyle coach, sets clear boundaries with clients up front.