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Social media and employee online presence/data privacy

Embracing social media use in a responsible way can have a significant positive impact on your business, your workplace culture, and employee/employer relationships. While there are many upsides to the use of social media, we also examine potential risks employers should be aware of.

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Beat the heat – Tips to lower the temperature and resolve workplace conflicts

With sunshine and vacations you would expect the office to be a happier place during the summer. However vacations can increase the workload on co-workers, foster intermittent and missed communications and add to the stress level of employees who are struggling to meet a deadline before they go on vacation or coming back from vacation to an overloaded inbox. Rising temperatures can equal rising tempers!

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The best lessons are not all learned in the classroom – the threat of the irate customer

As a workplace violence consultant and subject matter expert, I am well aware that irate customers pose a very real threat to front-line workers. It’s not very often that I am that irate customer.

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