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Web Wealth: Can you trust conventional wisdom, or your gut, in financial matters?
Posted 02/09/2012
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Jane M. Von Bergen
It costs money to have a global workforce, and the way to offset that cost, writes Mercer, the huge human consultancy, is to try to "localize" compensation. In other words, try to get American employees, as much as possible, to accept the same pay, or close to it, as the locals receive (i.e. less).
The whole concept of workplace worth is scary to many people. Yet it’s what separates the successful and well-paid from those who stagnate and remain undervalued.
Warren and Dolores Browne discovered a 1948 Bauhaus in Merion Station. It was in anything but move-in condition but they didn't smell the putrid smells, or cry over the plumbing costs. They saw potential.
Al Heavens
Posted 02/10/2012
Question: I live in a mature residential area not too far from a neighborhood park. For the last few years, when the weather reaches the low 20 degrees, field mice come in the house. Then they find their way into the dishwasher, of all places.