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Great Ideas October 2023
Feeling it in your workplace? Here’s how to break the cycle - and reignite your team’s productivity!

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Great Ideas | October 2023

Untapped Productivity: 

How To Find It. Reclaim It. And Accomplish More, Every Day.

Y-O-Y U.S. worker productivity has declined for 5 straight quarters for the first time on record. Feeling it in your workplace? Here’s how to break the cycle - and reignite your team’s productivity!

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Washington Supreme Court Rejects the 

Apex Doctrine

In its September 14, 2023, unanimous decision in Stratford v. Umpqua Bank, the Washington Supreme Court rejected the application of the “apex doctrine” in Washington. The apex doctrine protects certain high-level executives from being subjected to depositions unless the proponent can show that (1) the witness has unique, non-repetitive, firsthand knowledge of the facts at issue in the case, and (2) other less intrusive means of discovery, such as interrogatories and depositions of other employees, have been exhausted without success. The Washington Supreme Court rejected both this specific application and the doctrine more generally. 

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