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What are some common office policies that have become outdated and deserve to be retired?

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    8am to 5pm, weekly meetings

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    Dress codes especially when workers are not involved with face to face contact with customers. Strict work hours can be retired when flexible hours have no overall impact to performance

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    Inequities in salary and benefits

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    terminated if too many unexcused absences

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    Sick leave versus a pooled PTO

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    Being in office 8-5

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    Absurd HR games for "Team Building". I think it just diminish the employee and provide justification for the existence of HR.

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