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With the one-year anniversary of last year?s terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and three passenger jets fast approaching, many employers are unsure how to proceed this September 11 according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Between the sixty-nine percent of companies surveyed by SHRM that plan to go about business as usual, and those that plan to shut down for the day, many are searching for a middle-ground acknowledging these tragedies that took the lives of so many people at their places of work. Among the measures planned to help workers address the issues surrounding this date without sending everyone home for the day, are blood drives, moments of silence, the wearing of pins commemorating the victims and heroes of September 11, and reminders of the availability of emotional assistance programs.