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Two questions, similar answers. The first one:

I am hiring my first ever direct report, and I live in a salary transparency state. My HR department notified me that, legally, you have to post the entire salary range possible for the role and you cannot limit it to your preferred

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A reader writes:

I’m about six months into a job and I’m having an issue with someone on my team, Sally. She is very lovely, kind, and a team player. Our roles are similar, except I am part-time and she is full-time. She’s been in this job for almost 20

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Earlier this month was the annual Ask a Manager salary survey. This week, let’s compare paid time off.

Fill out the form below to anonymously share how much paid time off you get, in the context of your field and other relevant factors. (Do not leave your info in the

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It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…

1. My boss told me my dresses need to be longer

My line manager told me yesterday that there had been “comments made” about how short / inappropriate my dresses are in the office, as a member of the team who

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A workplace email signature is normally the most forgettable part of a message — just a name, a title, a phone number, and maybe a logo dutifully appended by IT. It’s boilerplate by design, stripped of personality and meant to fade into the background.

But when employers give workers more

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A reader writes:

I work at a university managing the production aspects of the theater. I manage five staff members and one of them, Jane, can be hard to work with.

She can be quite abrasive and abrupt, and I have already had several meetings with her to address the

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A reader writes:

I have recently made it to the second round of interviews for a role I’m very interested in. The conversation is with the person who is leaving the role I’m interviewing for.

I’ve never interviewed with the person who is currently in the job in question, but

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A reader writes:

Some colleagues and I have a question on interview etiquette from the interviewer side that we can’t agree on. If you give someone a job interview, should you give them a way to contact you?

My thinking is, yes, if you interview a job candidate, you should

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A reader writes:

I work in a museum for … let’s say antique Scandinavian teapots (made up to keep me anonymous). The museum was founded about 20 years ago by a married couple who are major collectors. In the past few years, the couple has decided to make our museum

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It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…

1. How do I fire someone humanely when management ignored years of underperformance?

I’m a manager at a small product company and I’m facing a role elimination that’s keeping me up at night.

I joined this org a bit less than

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It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…

1. Coworker threatened me and HR isn’t doing anything

Last fall, a coworker made an inappropriate comment toward me (called me a “ho” out of nowhere) and also made a statement about using a gun on me. She made these comments

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It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…

1. Endless interviews with no hiring decision

Twice now, at different companies, for different roles, I have gone through five rounds of interviews. This includes panels, work assessments, presentations, in-office visits, the whole works. Then, after hours of work and weeks

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A reader writes:

Years ago, I got to know Fergus, the head of a local organization I worked with through my previous job. Fergus eventually left the organization to pursue other opportunities, and shortly afterward, I had a meeting with other members of the team, including the person who had

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A reader writes:

Last month I had a video interview with a candidate that caught me off guard. It was a second round interview, and I was tasked with asking some deeper questions and providing some more technical context to the role.

It became clear quite quickly, since we were

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A reader writes:

After being laid off, I was aggressively applying to everything even remotely in my industry. I landed an interview with a company I recognized and a role I was fully qualified for. In order to move forward in the process, however, they said I needed to “complete