It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My manager disclosed medical information about my child to my coworker I’m in the healthcare field, and my role necessitates adhering to confidentiality with clients. In a moment of vulnerability, and as a way to explain an increase in requests for time off, I told […]

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16.07.2025

does it make sense to do peer reviews? - Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work in HR and oversee my organization’s performance review process. For context, it is a family owned, 500-employee very niche business, with some really wild internal politics and two really dysfunctional leadership groups. When I started, there was a very informal “if you do it, great” type of review process that […]

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16.07.2025

a manager on my team only hires attractive people - Ask a Manager

A reader writes: One of the managers who reports to me seems (consciously or not) biased towards hiring really good-looking people. He’s hired just under a dozen folks over the last year, and all of these hires are extremely attractive women (and one man who made an early-career switch away from literal modeling), in a […]

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16.07.2025

is this person the disaster I think they are? - Ask a Manager

A reader writes: This is a college question, but I’m applying to office work and am wondering how I should frame my experiences with a particular person. I recently graduated from a small public university where I spent a lot of my time in a tiny department (think single-digit faculty numbers, no adjuncts). Our courses […]

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