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Human resources consultant Peter Wallbridge discusses how to manage layoffs. He discusses genuine redundancies versus redundancies as an excuse to fire someone. He recommends flexible employment contracts. The human resources director should be objective and factual in laying someone off, and not assume the person should react a certain way. Wallbridge discusses how to balance the company's and the worker's priorities.
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A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
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Financial collapses - whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market - are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of...