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From time to time, we’ll be rounding up the latest workplace-related stories for your reading pleasure. Here are today’s recommendations:

PhysOrg.com reports on a recent study that examines the influence of beauty, status and sex on job negotiations in “Hiring practices are influenced by beauty“.

Small Business Trends asks the provocative question, “Are Your Employees’ Hours Quality Time or Quantity Time?” How might you answer that about your own workplace?

George’s Employment Blawg takes a look at a harsh realization: “Much Employee Creativity Unused on Job“.

Online Guide to Mediation, a blog published by OptionBridge partner Diane Levin, looks at a new social networking web site that helps employees join forces to effect workplace change, among other things.

PersonnelToday.com lists the “Top 10 management issues companies get wrong“.

Finally, Life at Work, a New Zealand blog that takes an irreverent look at workplace issues from the perspective of an employment lawyer, asks, “Exactly why did you leave your last job?“

Building on more than 75 combined years of experience in the field, five dispute resolution professionals - Moshe Cohen, Melinda Gehris, Ericka Gray, Bill Logue, and Diane Levin - have formally joined forces as OptionBridge LLC.

OptionBridge is a one-stop, full-service conflict management firm helping companies, organizations, and individuals prevent, manage, and recover from conflict. The conflict management experts at OptionBridge provide a broad range of services, including conflict audit and assessment, neutral investigation, dispute resolution system design, mediation, arbitration, training, consulting, coaching and more, in order to minimize the likelihood of destructive conflict, intervene swiftly and effectively when it does occur, and help restore relationships and build healthier organizations in its aftermath. OptionBridge also provides training, coaching, and consulting services to ADR professionals to help them build their businesses and take their skills to the next level.

From its headquarters in Concord, Hew Hampshire, and satellite offices in Connecticut and Massachusetts OptionBridge delivers services throughout the region, as well as nationally, internationally, and on the web. In addition to working together, the members of OptionBridge continue to maintain their own independent practices.

Please visit OptionBridge on the web at www.optionbridge.com or call us at 800-987-9078.