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...landscape of severance negotiation has changed dramatically since the last recession. In 2001, just 5% of professional workers and 4% of administrative and support staffers negotiated their exit packages, according to a survey by human-resources consultancy Lee Hecht Harrison. In 2008 a full 31% of professionals and some 22% of administrative workers did. Building up the gumption to ask for a better deal is particularly important today as struggling companies offer less: nearly a tenth of firms are on the cusp of reducing cash payments, according to a survey by the consultancy Hewitt Associates, and a good many...
...long they think it will take a person with your experience to land a new gig. If it's longer than your severance will last, make the case that you should be compensated for the entire time period. One tactic Barbara Barra, executive vice president at Lee Hecht Harrison, has noticed: suggesting that your company extend severance pay by a few months but agreeing to cut it off early if you get a new job in the interim...
...school-funded and free for students. PrepMe is working with the state of Maine as well as inner city charter schools across the Midwest, with full funding from philanthropists or the schools themselves. Aside from partnerships with high schools in the wealthy New York suburbs of Brewster and Harrison, WilsonDailyPrep also recently signed on to offer discounted online programs at Riverside High School in Yonkers, N.Y., a city where a quarter of people under 18 live below the poverty line, and Columbus High in the Bronx, where students pass through metal detectors on the way to class. "There...
...College team, but that didn’t put a dent in HCSUCS’s punch lines. “Only four of us went against all of them, but we went up there and we did one of our best performances,” said James. Indeed, Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08 was declared funniest comedian overall. Despite their certified status as a humor group, many at Harvard are not aware of HCSUCS’s tournament ventures, let alone their campus performances. “H what?” said Rachel...
...last time in the game, the Crimson was left to rue its spurned opportunities.At 13:44, RPI capitalized on the absence of junior Anna McDonald—penalized for a cross check—to take a surprise lead against its hosts. From the left boards, Harrison pivoted and slide a pass to Naslund in front of the crease. From a tight angle, the RPI forward poked the puck past Kessler for the opening goal—sending the large contingent of Engineers supporters into raptures.Minutes later, their lead over a shell-shocked Crimson was doubled. Receiving a pass around...