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It takes time to make friends at a new job -- but a candy bowl is a good start

Karla L. Miller
Aug 25, 2019 6:00 AM - Usually, finding "our people" at work takes weeks and months of daily proximity and small talk, borrowing staplers and awkwardly sipping sodas at work-sponsored social events.
Cities offering salary negotiation classes for women

Rebecca Greenfield
Aug 25, 2019 6:00 AM - Training women to negotiate for higher pay "is a way to work more deliberately to close the pay gap," said Kim Churches, head of the American Association of University Women, which runs negotiation workshops in cities across the country.
Alight Solutions acquires NGA Human Resources

Aug 22, 2019 9:57 AM - Alight Solutions announced it will acquire NGA Human Resources, a provider of digital human resources and multi-country payroll services.
Wife moved for husband's exciting career, but her own new job is uninspiring

By Karla L. Miller
Aug 18, 2019 6:00 AM - How much time do you have to give a job before deciding it won't get better and bailing?
U.S. businesses are taking down job listings as Trump's trade war grows

Heather Long
Aug 18, 2019 6:00 AM - President Donald Trump's escalating trade war has made business executives more cautious.
New law bans salary questions in job interviews. What to say if you're asked anyway.

Jena McGregor
Aug 18, 2019 6:18 AM - Experts say job candidates should answer with a little deflection -- and a lot of tact.
Analysis: The white-male mentorship premium

Rebecca Greenfield
Aug 18, 2019 6:05 AM - New research by salary website PayScale found that employees who have a white male advocate often end up with higher pay, and most of those employees are white men.
Value of mentoring for executive education

Aug 14, 2019 1:00 AM - In the business world, mentoring has been recognized as a practice to nurture the talents of up-and-coming employees.
CEOs who cheat on spouse twice as likely to cheat at work, study shows

Matt Robinson
Aug 11, 2019 6:07 AM - Cheating on your spouse goes hand in hand with cheating in the workplace. That's the conclusion of a provocative new academic study that found a strong correlation between adultery and workplace misconduct by corporate executives and financial advisers.
Want to hire millennials? Better help repay student debt

Alex Tanzi and Shelly Hagan
Aug 11, 2019 6:15 AM - Offering such an incentive helps businesses lure prospective employees as they grapple with tight labor market conditions marked by a jobless rate near its lowest in almost five decades.

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