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Arela Simerson
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4 days ago

The Great Tip Debate

Tipflation is getting out of control, what to do about it? People are getting angry about tipping. From both sides; customers feel stressed about tipping enough, and service workers who are relying on the customers to make the wage livable. Both sides are not wrong. …

Wages

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The Great Tip Debate
The Great Tip Debate
Wages

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Mar 16

Quantifying the Qualitative

Aiming for Fair Hiring Processes There is a current trend in some organizations in using quantitative analysis to hire more equitably and limit the biases that haunt the recurring process. The intention is great, but the execution is tricky. Quantitative analysis requires a person, often the recruiter or the hiring…

Diversity And Inclusion

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Diversity And Inclusion

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Oct 14, 2022

A Personal Essay about Discrimination

The day I got fired I made a LinkedIn post outlining what happened. I hoped it would help my colleagues; give them some understanding that they need to fight for themselves, as no one at CDP or the Science Based Targets initiative was going to for them. I wrote about…

Autism

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A Personal Essay about Discrimination
A Personal Essay about Discrimination
Autism

8 min read


Oct 13, 2022

The Truth about Your Crumby Pay Increase

The other day a friend of mine was talking about how their employer has given them a yearly raise of 4%, which means because of inflation, they are making less than they made last year. Their company said this is all they can afford, citing the recession. …

Income Inequality

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The Truth about Your Crumby Pay Increase
The Truth about Your Crumby Pay Increase
Income Inequality

4 min read


Sep 28, 2022

How to Choose a Good Employer

and weed out toxic workplaces — There are an estimated 333.34 million companies in the world. With the increase in globalized and remote work, we have more choices than ever. The recent massive wave of resignations means a lot of people are interviewing for what’s next. We choose our work place for a variety of reasons…

Work

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How to Choose a Good Employer
How to Choose a Good Employer
Work

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Jan 18, 2021

Making Space for Hard Days

Is your employee having a bad day? That’s ok, let them. — Last week I had a friend tell me she was feeling really low, feeling like it was all a lot to deal with in these last twelve months. When I suggested she take the day off for self care, she said she couldn’t, a presentation was due. …

Leadership

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Making Space for Hard Days
Making Space for Hard Days
Leadership

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Sep 28, 2020

Veering From the Path

How asking hard questions brought necessary change — 2020 has been a year of profound instability and change. I experienced, like many others, powerful feelings of sadness, stress and fear. Now as the year has progressed, I’m exhilarated with feelings of clarity and hope. During the lockdown I got stuck in California, and many of my clients —…

Future Of Work

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Veering From the Path
Veering From the Path
Future Of Work

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Mar 2, 2020

Best Practices or Flexible Practices?

Let’s be bold and progressive and move beyond the fixation of HR best practices! This is becoming my mantra as I repeat it often these days in my effort to influence and implement sustainable and great places to work. In all my excitement, I forgot that many people don’t understand…

Work

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Best Practices or Flexible Practices?
Best Practices or Flexible Practices?
Work

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Jan 24, 2020

So Much Potential

The future of work means being bold and creative — In our contemporary work places, we have the skills, resources and insights to make work an engaging and meaningful place where employees are solely focused on being awesome at their jobs. So then, why don’t we use them? Do we really think we have it all figured out? Even organizations…

Work

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So Much Potential
So Much Potential
Work

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Published in The Startup

·Nov 12, 2019

Is it really urgent?

Do we misuse the sense of urgency at work? For many startup employees, we are pushed to work fast, respond as quickly as possible, to work with a sense of urgency. …

Leadership

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Is it really urgent?
Is it really urgent?
Leadership

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Arela Simerson

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