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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Morales was released after 17 days, given a second chance through the DACA policy ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) as well as a green card petition filed by her mother, who gained legal status in 2004 after marrying a U.S. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo.

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How Happier Employees Give Your Bottom Line a Boost

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Workplace policy research Researchers at the Future Forward Institute, including Harvard lecturer Dr. Angela Jackson , compared workplace policies and practices with financial data for 355 companies on the Fortune 500 list. Their goal?

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Retailers Reluctantly Raise Pay As Wage Growth Expands In Japan

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The central bank has predicated its latest cycle of interest rate hikes, including another expected at a policy meeting later this week, on a sustained “virtuous circle” of higher wages that support higher prices, for services as well as for manufactured goods.

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Remote Work Could Decrease Office Tenant Demand By 10% In New York

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Despite many companies making their return to the office over the last several months, vacancy rates across some of the world’s largest cities continue to climb as flexible policies take precedence. . There’s no part of the world that is untouched by the growth of hybrid working,” said Richard Barkham, global chief economist at CBRE. .

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Academic Study Measures the Pandemic's Impact on Small Businesses

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The Effects of the Coronavirus on Hours of Work in Small Businesses , from Yale's Tobin Center for Economic Policy, shows the pandemic's dramatic and ongoing impact on small businesses.    Hours worked since then have recovered, but as of early June were still 35.9% below pre-pandemic levels.

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62% of Large U.S. Companies Embrace Hybrid Work, but In-Office Mandates Persist

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The report found that over half (62%) of larger firms with over 25,000 employees have installed hybrid work policies, which is another factor contributing to the moderate rise in required office days quarter over quarter. This is also a slight increase from the previous quarter, where the average number of days was 2.49.

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Over 90% Of Companies Will Expand Or Decrease Their Office Space

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However, 52% stated that they would reduce their space over the next three years due to the embrace of remote working policies. . Stadiums and restaurants are filled but offices aren’t. It’s pretty clear that hybrid work is here to stay,” said Alexander Snyder, portfolio manager at CenterSquare Investment Management.

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