Discrimination in the workplace can take many forms. It might be because of a person’s race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, religion, or sexuality. It’s no joke if you think it’s happening to you; however, dealing with it can be challenging to say the least. Workplace discrimination is actually more common than you think. Exact numbers vary, depending on which study you refer to, but there is one common element. Workplace discrimination is a real problem.

If you think you’re on the receiving end of any form of discrimination, these are the steps you should take.

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Toxicity in the workplace is hard to ignore, especially when it’s coming from the inside out. If you find that you aren’t progressing as much as you’d hope to in your career, it may be due to your personality traits. To succeed in professional career it is not sufficient to work hard. Your personal traits matter as much as your professional ones. The following eight toxic traits are keeping you from succeeding in your career:

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Where learning is concerned, it is common for professionals to find themselves stagnating at work. This is often a result of when the demands of the job are eating up whatever time they have which is bad news for professional development. Over time, you might find yourself no longer growing into the person you imagined a few years ago, a sad realisation, but the good news is you can take back control of your learning at work.

This is important because what you can learn is more relevant than what you know now, and employers need this dynamism for their employees to flourish. After all, behind every successful business is a successful team and you’re a cog in that wheel.

Taking control of your learning at work if you’re exceptionally busy will be more difficult than if you have some spare time. But it can be done and here is how to do it.

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Drug testing in American workplaces became more common after 1986 when federal employees become officially forbidden from using illegal drugs. However, as states began changing laws to allow consumption of marijuana for medical use or even recreational use, this federal law that encourages drug testing has become an issue. Particularly for companies that have federal contracts and are based in a state where recreational use of marijuana is completely legal. Over this time, propagation techniques and cultivation has meant that concentration of THC levels has found to have been steadily increasing. This has become a problem for people who are in proximity to others who are smoking the drug, even if they are not imbibing themselves, as workplace drug testing that uses a hair strand drug test may still pick up traces of THC long after the exposure period, creating a false positive result purely from exposure. Questions arise about how long after exposure can trace of the drug still be detected in your system and do different tests produce different results.

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Have you heard of how powerful online adverts on Amazon, Shopify and Facebook can be? Have you heard of folks saying how their businesses made thousands of dollars in profit from using these tools? Have you tried using these tools but can’t seem to get the same level of results these folks claim to be getting or are you considering trying them out but don’t know how to get started?

There is surely someone right at this moment who fits into one or more of the categories described above. Let’s start by stating very clearly that these tools are indeed very powerful and can help grow your business. You can find some information here. This does not mean that all the claims you read of are true. They are possible, but they are not all true because some folks make their money from supposedly teaching techniques for using these tools, so they concoct tales to help sell their trainings. These tales are possible but not always true.

This then brings us to our main issue of focus in this article. Since we have established that these tools are indeed powerful and can yield the level of results constantly advertised, how does one go about finding the right way to go about it?

This is what we will be focusing fully on in this article. Just stay with us.

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