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What to Do When Your Employee Is Diagnosed with Cancer

By Anne Sugar — 2018

All managers know that they need to help their employees through challenging times. But almost no manager is prepared for when one of their direct reports announces that he or she has cancer, despite the fact that more than 1.6 million people will be diagnosed this year.

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