‘Make It Matter’

Thanks to “The Bear,” we now know how fine dining establishments try to motivate their staffs.

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Here are today’s highlights:            

• Gene Marks says even very small companies can help employees with child care.

• Should employers fight employees who make mental-health disability claims?

• A fresh shirt can do more to protect outdoor workers in a heat wave than you might think.

• What do you do when the value of a building plummets and the cost of insuring it soars?

MANAGEMENT

Fine-dining restaurants are very big on motivating employees through inspirational quotes: “The popular TV show ‘The Bear’ helped thrust this behind-the-scenes practice into the spotlight. The ‘Every Second Counts’ sign given in season 2 to Carmy Berzatto, played by Jeremy Allen White, is directly inspired by the ‘Sense of Urgency’ sign, meant to invoke focus, organization and expediency, that hangs in the restaurants of the chef Thomas Keller — not least because both hang near clocks.”