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... employee monitoring, and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse advises all employees to assume that their workplace activities and communications are being monitored. Says Kristin Byron, assistant professor of management at the Syracuse University Whitman School: "People have this incredible belief that their e-mail is private and that employers are not allowed to monitor it. The reality is that employers can monitor e-mail. Since December of 2006, federal rules governing civil litigation require U.S. companies to keep better track of their employees' e-mails, instant messages, and other electronic documents in case of litigation." &# 160AP Business writer Chris Rugaber notes that: "Companies and other parties involved in federal litigation must now produce ‘electronically stored information' as part of discovery, the process by which both sides share evidence before a trial ... x No Thanks Loading.. Everybody'S Gone Surfin'4/30/2013 by CompleteMarkets Editor , Jon Persky This content has not been rated yet. EVERYBODY'S GONE SURFIN' by Jon Persky Productivity Issues Internet use in the workplace is both a necessity and a tempting distraction. In a poll commissioned by www.lawyers.com , seven in ten U.S. adult office workers use the Internet at work for personal purposes, and more than half send and receive personal messages on their work e-mail accounts. Additionally, almost 75% of office workers are either as or more likely to use the Internet at work for personal reasons than they were two years ago. Not only does this affect your bottom line due to lost productivity, but it can open your organization up to a host of risks and potential liabilities. ...

... . The caller is assured of a callback. For an unsuccessful transfer of a call determined to be an emergency, alternate numbers and contact persons to OSHA will be tried. The transfer will be repeated until the transfer is successful. AFTER-HOUR CALLS After normal working hours ' 4:30 p.m. until 8 a.m. local time, Monday through Friday and all day Saturday, Sunday and during official government holidays-the same information as daytime calls is requested with the additional request for the best time for a callback. If the caller expressly states that the call is an emergency, an information form is completed and the caller is assured that the appropriate representative will be contacted immediately. The information regarding the location of the emergency is verbally provided to the OSHA representative. If the call is not an emergency ... the time of the initiating call. DAYTIME CALLS For telephone calls received during normal working hours-between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. local time Monday through Friday-the answering operator requests the callers' name (optional), a daytime telephone number (also optional), and a ZIP code (required) . The caller is asked to hold while the representative determines the appropriate area office and then transfers the call to that office. If the transfer is completed, the representative notes the call's disposition; if the transfer for a complaint is unsuccessful, a manual callback form will be completed and telefaxed to the area office. The caller is assured of a callback. For an unsuccessful transfer of a call determined to be an emergency, alternate numbers and contact persons to OSHA will ...

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... , the branch manager, or the investment rep, the agent should take a more consultative approach and operate as a member of a team putting forth an integrated sales strategy. On the regulatory side, to work the community bank market, agency management needs to both understand and adhere to additional requirements. Community banks selling insurance products fall either under the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Inter-agency Guidelines governing the sale of non-deposit investment products, or under state regulations for banks selling insurance. Thus, producers in agencies that affiliate with community banks must know what they can and can't say, the proper disclosure language and forms to use, how to handle complaints, and how the agency should be structured to handle bank business in their state. Community banks provide fertile ground in which to cultivate insurance ... the product-centered marketing and sale support functions traditionally provided by an insurance carrier with the customer-focused marketing, sales, and field underwriting an agency provides, you have the foundation for a hybrid agency structure, which can supply the best of both worlds, from pre-sale to post-sale. Hybrid agencies, born out of relatively new bank-insurance program ventures, are third-party marketing organizations that provide training and marketing support for back office and sale reps — something that insurance agencies don't usually do. Remember, insurance is primarily sold, not bought. Thus, marketing is far more sophisticated and multi-faceted, because it focuses on the customer, not the product. A hybrid agency in a bank must be able to support not only traditional face-to-face sales, but also call centers, direct response programs, investment programs, and Internet ...

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