TL;DR
- The real decision: Whether the core document states the highest common standard everywhere or the local minimum with supplements, a trade between administrative simplicity and giving away entitlements you were never required to grant.
- When doing nothing is right: When you've fewer than a handful of out-of-state workers, no remote hires in new jurisdictions, and a discipline process that has not been tested in court.
- What has to be true: A signed at-will acknowledgement in every US file, a real owner of the local layer, and a way to retire language that contradicts the disclaimer.
- How the options split: By who owns the variation, central HR, local HR, or each employee, and by whether the variation lives in the same document or a separate one.
- Decision rule: If two jurisdictions disagree on something that can cost you a claim, you need a structure. If they disagree on wording only, you don't.
- Outcome to expect: A defensible document, a clear chain of ownership, and fewer surprises when a manager in a new state opens the file and acts on it.
The Head Office Version Was Fine Until Tuesday
The HR director opens the file on Tuesday morning because a senior engineer in New Jersey is being put on a performance plan, and the document she reaches for is the one her team wrote in California eighteen months ago. It's clean. It's short. It says the right things about at-will status, and the engineer signed an acknowledgement when she was hired. It also says the company will only terminate for just cause, in a paragraph about progressive discipline that was meant to describe a process, not a promise. New Jersey recognises the implied-contract exception to at-will employment. California doesn't. So the paragraph that read as helpful guidance in San Francisco reads as a contract term in Newark, and the disclaimer three pages earlier will be weighed against it by a court that has read the same policies and come to a different conclusion.
She isn't facing a paperwork problem. She is facing a document that tells two stories in two places and didn't warn her which one would be believed.
The reflex is to write a state appendix. That defers the problem. The appendix won't stop a manager from acting on the wrong paragraph, and it won't tell her whether the higher standard in the California text was something the company ever intended to promise, or something the drafter put in because it sounded reasonable. The real issue isn't the appendix. The real issue is the core document, and whether it commits the company to the highest common standard everywhere or only to the minimum, and who in the organisation owns the answer.
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When You Genuinely Do Not Need to Act Yet
The urge to restructure is real and it's often wrong. Four stages describe most of the readers who will reach this page, and only the last two need a new structure.
Stage one: one state, one office, fewer than a handful of remote workers who never set foot there. A company with forty people in a single headquarters and two remote engineers in a neighbouring state has not yet earned the cost of a layered handbook. The exposure is small, the document is short, and the friction of maintaining two versions would exceed the friction of being slightly wrong. The honest move is to add a short jurisdictional rider covering the two or three points where the neighbouring state differs, and to revisit the question at the next hire that crosses a real line. The mistake here's to do nothing at all, including failing to update the at-will acknowledgement. The mistake is also to build a global structure for a problem that doesn't exist yet.
Stage two: one state, several offices, a small number of remote workers in other states, no pending claims. This is the most common stage and the most argued about. The hand-off is real because managers in different offices read the same document and act on different paragraphs. The exposure is still manageable. The right move is to identify the policies where the two states can diverge, leave the rest in one place, and make the at-will disclaimer the loudest sentence in the document. The cost of a layered structure isn't yet justified, but the cost of a vague discipline section already is.
Stage three: several states, no countries, at least one disciplinary action or separation in the last year, and at least one remote worker hired into a state the company had no presence in twelve months ago. The document is now wrong in places the company has already acted in. A discipline section written in California has been used, in some form, by a manager in a state that reads it differently. The exposure has stopped being theoretical. A layered structure is now the cheapest option, and the question is only which one. The right move is to stop adding appendices and to commit to a structure with a real owner.
Stage four: at least one country outside the United States, or a state where the company has never had a physical presence and now has a full-time remote worker, and a document that has not been reviewed since the second hire. This is the edge case and it's the only one where the cost of doing nothing is larger than the cost of a real project. Employment terms in another country aren't a paragraph. They're a different conversation. The right move is to stop pretending the existing handbook covers it, get local advice, and build a structure that names who owns the local layer before the next separation makes the question unavoidable.
The Five Questions You Ask Yourself at 11pm
Does the disclaimer actually win in every state we operate in? In most US states, a clear at-will disclaimer in the handbook combined with a signed acknowledgement is the combination that supports at-will status. In roughly thirty-eight states, courts have also recognised the implied-contract exception, meaning that specific promissory language elsewhere in the document, for example a statement that termination will only be for just cause, can override the disclaimer when the two are weighed together. The question isn't whether the disclaimer exists. The question is whether anything in the document contradicts it. If a discipline section says "employees will only be terminated for just cause after progressive steps", a court in a state that recognises the exception may treat that as the operative term, regardless of the disclaimer on page one.
What does a manager in another state actually do with this document on a Tuesday morning? The handbook is a tool. It's read by the manager who has a problem and needs an answer, not by the HR lead who wrote it. If the document doesn't tell that manager what to do in their state, the manager will improvise, and the improvisation is what gets tested later. The question is whether the document is operationally clear to the person using it, not whether it's correct in the abstract.
Who in this organisation owns the local layer? If the answer is "everyone" or "we'll get to it", no one owns it. The local layer is where the document becomes wrong, and the local layer is the part that gets read in a claim. The question is who wakes up when a state law changes, who reviews the local supplement, and who has the authority to retire language that contradicts the disclaimer. If that person isn't named, the structure is a fiction.
Are we promising more in our home state than we have to? A handbook that grants thirty days of severance in a state that doesn't require it, or that requires a multi-step discipline process in a state that allows termination at will, is a gift the company didn't intend to give. The question is whether the highest standard in the document was a deliberate choice or an accident of drafting. If it was an accident, the company is exposed in every state where the higher standard isn't required and where an employee can point to it as a promise.
What happens when we hire our first person in a state we've never operated in? The first hire in a new state is the moment the document is tested. The question is whether the company has a process for that hire, a checklist of what changes in the handbook, and a person who reviews the document before the new employee signs. If the answer is that HR will "look at it" when the offer goes out, the answer is no.
Three Honest Categories the Approaches Split Into
Centralised, with the home-office document as the only document. One handbook, written for the state where the company is headquartered, applied everywhere. The strength is administrative simplicity: one document to write, one document to translate, one document to update. The weakness is that the document says things in other jurisdictions that it doesn't have to say, and that the things it doesn't say are the things the company most needed to say. A centralised approach is right when the company is genuinely small, genuinely concentrated, and the cost of being slightly wrong is smaller than the cost of maintaining two documents. It fails when a manager in a different state uses a paragraph that was never meant to apply, and when the company realises, after a claim, that the document promised more than it had to.
Layered, with a core document and a local layer that's genuinely owned. A core handbook that states the company's position on at-will status, code of conduct, anti-harassment, and the principles behind discipline, supplemented by a local layer that handles the points where the jurisdiction differs. The local layer can be an appendix, a separate document, or a policy library, but the ownership is what matters. A layered approach is right when the company has outgrown a single document and has someone on the team who can own the local layer without being asked. It fails when the local layer is written once and never updated, when the core document and the local layer contradict each other, and when no one is named as the owner of the contradiction. The most common failure mode is the appendix that's three years old and has not been read since it was filed.
Distributed, with each employee governed by the document that applies to their location. A policy library assembled per employee, where the core principles are shared but the operative terms, including notice periods, severance, leave entitlements, and discipline procedures, are drawn from a country-specific or state-specific source. A distributed approach is right when the company operates in jurisdictions where the employment terms differ enough that a single document would either lie or oversimplify. It fails when the company doesn't have the operational discipline to maintain it, when a manager doesn't know which document applies to the person in front of them, and when the cost of the system exceeds the cost of the risk. The distributed approach is the most defensible and the most expensive. It's also the only one that scales past a certain point without lying.
Five Diagnostic Questions You Can Self-Assess Against
How many jurisdictions do we've employees in, and what kind? Count the states and the countries. The number alone doesn't tell you whether you need a new structure, but the distribution does. A company with one hundred people in California and one in New Jersey is in a different position from a company with ten people in ten states. The first has a problem with one paragraph. The second has a problem with the document.
Have we had a separation in the last year in a state we had not operated in two years ago? If yes, the document has been used in that state. Read the relevant section. Ask whether the language would be read the same way in that state as it's in your home state. If you can't answer that question, the document is the problem.
Who, by name, owns the next update to this document? If the answer is a team rather than a person, no one owns it. If the answer is "we'll get to it when the laws change", the document is being maintained by hope. The owner of the next update is also the owner of the gap between the current document and the one that should exist.
What is the highest standard in the document, and was it deliberate? Read the discipline section, the severance section, and the notice section. For each, ask whether the standard in the home state was a choice or an accident. If it was an accident, the document is promising something the company didn't decide to promise, and the document is the risk.
What would a manager in another state do on Tuesday morning with the current document? Pull up the file. Read it as a manager. If the document doesn't tell that manager what to do in their state, the document is failing at the only job it has. The question isn't whether the document is legally correct. The question is whether it's operationally usable by the person who needs it.
Five Structures, Reviewed
One global handbook with no variation
A single document, written for the home-office jurisdiction, applied everywhere the company has employees. The structure is simple, the maintenance is light, and the document is short. A senior HR lead can hold the whole thing in her head. The structure earns its place when the company is genuinely small, when the out-of-state population is small enough to be a rounding error, and when the cost of being slightly wrong in a faraway jurisdiction is smaller than the cost of maintaining a second document.
The structure falls short when the document is used in a state that reads it differently. A discipline section written for at-will employment in a state that recognises the implied-contract exception becomes, in that state, a set of promises the company may not have intended to make. The document doesn't warn the manager that the reading has changed. It also doesn't warn the company that the higher standard in the home jurisdiction is being applied in every other jurisdiction for free, regardless of what local law requires. The structure is the cheapest and the most exposed.
A core handbook with jurisdiction appendices
A core document that states the company's position on at-will status, code of conduct, anti-harassment, and the principles behind discipline, supplemented by appendices that handle the points where a specific jurisdiction differs. The structure is the most common and the most argued about. It earns its place because it lets the company keep one core document and add only the variation that the jurisdictions actually require. The cost of adding an appendix is small compared to the cost of rewriting the document.
The structure falls short when the appendices are written once and never updated, when they contradict the core document, and when no one is named as the owner of the contradiction. A jurisdiction appendix that says "in this state, the at-will disclaimer doesn't control" is only useful if it's read. It's also only defensible if someone has reviewed it since the last change in that state's case law. The most common failure mode is the appendix that's three years old, has not been read by the manager who needed it, and contains a paragraph that was correct when it was written and is now wrong. The structure is also weak when the core document and the appendix disagree, because the manager will read both and act on whichever one fits the situation.
Separate handbooks per country
A separate handbook for each country in which the company operates, with a shared set of global principles held in a separate document. The structure earns its place when the company operates in countries where the employment terms differ enough that a single document would either lie or oversimplify. Notice periods, severance entitlements, consultation rights, and the form of the employment relationship differ in shape, and a single document that tries to cover all of them tends to cover none of them well.
The structure falls short when the company doesn't have the operational discipline to maintain it, and when a manager doesn't know which document applies to the person in front of them. A manager with a problem in a foreign jurisdiction isn't helped by being told to read the right handbook. The structure is also weak when the shared global principles aren't actually shared, when the country handbooks drift, and when a claim in one country turns up language from another country's document. The cost of the structure is real, and the cost of getting it wrong is also real. The structure is the right one past a certain scale and the wrong one before it.
A core plus country-specific employment terms
A core document that holds the company's global principles, supplemented by a country-specific terms document for each country, where the country-specific document handles the operative employment terms, including notice, severance, leave, and the form of the relationship, while the core document handles conduct, ethics, and the parts of the relationship that are genuinely global. The structure earns its place because it makes the division of labour explicit. The reader knows what is in the core and what is in the country layer, and the company knows what it has to update and where.
The structure falls short when the division of labour isn't enforced, when the country-specific document drifts from the core on a point that the core was meant to control, and when the manager uses the core where the country-specific document was meant to apply. The structure also fails when the company has a habit of writing global principles in the country-specific document by accident, which then become promises in the core that no one decided to make. The structure is more defensible than the appendix approach and cheaper than full separation, and it's the one most companies should look at first once they have outgrown a single document.
A policy library assembled per employee
A policy library where the operative document for a given employee is assembled from a set of modules, including a global conduct module, a country-specific terms module, a state-specific module where relevant, and a role-specific module where the role carries specific obligations. The structure earns its place when the company is large enough to support the operational discipline, when the jurisdictions are different enough that no single document will do, and when the company wants the document that the employee signs to be the document that applies to them, with no other document in the file that contradicts it.
The structure falls short when the company doesn't have the discipline to maintain it, when a manager doesn't know which modules apply to the person in front of them, and when the cost of assembling the document exceeds the cost of the risk. The structure is the most defensible and the most expensive. It's also the one that fails hardest when it's implemented without the operational support. A policy library in the hands of a team that doesn't own the modules is a library no one reads. A policy library in the hands of a team that does is the cleanest structure available.
The Decision Table
| Situation | Scale | Setup | Primary Pain | Recommended Starting Point |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One state, one office, handful of remote workers | Under fifty employees | Single document, short jurisdictional rider | Document is slightly wrong in places no one has tested | Add the rider, revisit at the next cross-jurisdiction hire |
| One state, several offices, small out-of-state population | Fifty to a few hundred | Single document, named at-will disclaimer, signed acknowledgements | Discipline section used in a state that reads it differently | Identify the policies where the states can diverge, leave the rest in one place |
| Several US states, recent separation in a new state, no countries | A few hundred to a thousand | Core plus jurisdiction appendices, owner of the local layer named | Appendix is stale or contradicts the core | Commit to a structure with a real owner, retire the old appendices |
| Several US states plus one country outside the US | A few hundred to a thousand | Core plus country-specific employment terms, local counsel for the foreign layer | Manager does not know which document applies | Build the split explicitly, name the owner of the country layer |
| Multiple countries, multiple US states, distributed workforce | Over a thousand | Policy library assembled per employee, named owners per module | Operational discipline does not support the structure | Only if the operational discipline exists; otherwise, do not build it yet |
| Single state, no remote workers, no pending claims | Under fifty | Single document, signed acknowledgements | None real | Hold the structure, do not add a layer the company does not need |
| Several states, no separations in the last year, no countries | A few hundred | Single document with a clear disclaimer | None real, exposure is theoretical | Hold the structure, but review the discipline section against the states that recognise the implied-contract exception |
| Multiple countries, no US presence in most of them | Variable | Country handbooks with a thin global layer | Drift between country documents | Reduce the global layer to what is genuinely global, hold the country documents in local counsel |
Deciding the Core Standard
The hardest part of the decision isn't the structure. It's the question of what the core document actually says. A handbook that grants thirty days of severance in a state that doesn't require it, or that promises a multi-step discipline process in a state that allows termination at will, is making a promise the company may not have intended. The promise will be read by a manager in another state who didn't know it was a promise, and it will be read by a court that doesn't care whether it was deliberate.
The choice is between the highest common standard and the local minimum. The highest common standard means the core document states the strongest version of every policy, and the company lives with the cost of that promise everywhere. The local minimum means the core document states the lowest version the company is willing to commit to, and the jurisdictions that require more get it through a supplement. The trade is between administrative simplicity and giving away entitlements the company was never required to grant.
| Factor | Favours highest common standard | Favours local minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Operational discipline | Strong: the company can hold one document and act on it | Weak: the company does not have the discipline to maintain a local layer |
| Manager behaviour | Managers in every state will read the same paragraph and act the same way | Managers in some states will read the core and assume it covers them when it does not |
| Claim exposure | Lower in states that would have required less, because the higher standard is met | Lower in states that require more, because the supplement handles it |
| Cost of the promise | Higher: the company pays for entitlements it did not have to grant | Lower: the company only pays where it has to |
| At-will status | Harder to preserve if the document promises more than at-will | Easier to preserve if the document says only what the law requires |
The factor that decides it's usually operational discipline. A company that can't maintain a local layer should not have one. A company that can should.
Who Owns the Local Version
The local layer is the part of the document that gets read in a claim. It's also the part that drifts, that contradicts the core, and that no one updates until something goes wrong. The owner of the local layer is the person who wakes up when a state law changes, who reviews the local supplement, and who has the authority to retire language that contradicts the disclaimer.
| Owner | What it means | What goes wrong |
|---|---|---|
| Central HR | The home-office team owns every local layer | The local layer drifts because no one is close enough to see it drift |
| Local HR | The in-country or in-state team owns the local layer | The local layer contradicts the core because the local team does not see the core changing |
| Local counsel | External advisers own the local layer | The local layer is correct and unusable, because the manager does not read what the lawyer wrote |
| Nobody | The local layer is owned by the team that happened to write it | The local layer is owned by no one, and the document is owned by no one, and a claim is the moment this becomes visible |
The right answer for most companies is a named owner inside the business, with local counsel as the reviewer of the owner's work. The owner has to be close enough to the manager using the document to see when the document is being misread, and close enough to the central team to know when the core has changed.
What to Put in Writing
A decision about the handbook structure isn't a decision until it's written down. The artefacts below are the ones that turn a good decision into a defensible one, and they're the ones most teams skip.
| Artefact | Who owns it | When it is written | What it prevents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Document map | Central HR | At the decision, before any drafting | A claim that the document was unclear about which version applied |
| At-will disclaimer | Central HR | At every revision, with a legal review | A claim that the disclaimer was overridden by other language |
| Signed acknowledgement | Local HR | At hire, at every material revision | A claim that the employee did not agree to the document |
| Local supplement register | Local HR | At the decision, updated when a state changes | A claim that the local layer was unknown or unreviewed |
| Owner matrix | Central HR | At the decision, reviewed annually | A claim that no one was responsible for the gap |
| Review log | Central HR | At every revision, with the reviewer named | A claim that the document was not reviewed |
| Translation record | Local HR | At hire, at every material revision | A claim that the employee could not read the document |
| Disciplinary action file | Local HR | At every action, with the document version referenced | A claim that the wrong document version was used |
The artefacts aren't paperwork. They're the evidence that the company knew what it was doing, and that the document was not an accident.
Questions to Ask Before You Commit
Owner: Who, by name, owns the next revision of the core document and the next revision of each local layer? A bad answer sounds like "the HR team" or "we'll figure it out".
Disclaimer: Is the at-will disclaimer the loudest sentence in the document, and is it supported by a signed acknowledgement in every file? A bad answer sounds like "I think so" or "we've something like that".
Discipline: Does the discipline section say anything that could be read as a promise of just-cause termination, and has that language been reviewed against the states that recognise the implied-contract exception? A bad answer sounds like "we copied it from a template" or "we've used it for years".
Local layer: When a state law changes, who finds out, who updates the supplement, and how long does that take? A bad answer sounds like "we'd hear about it" or "we've a tracker somewhere".
Country layer: For each country we operate in, who is the local adviser, and what is the cadence of the review? A bad answer sounds like "we use someone in London" or "we've a contact".
Translation: For each language the document is published in, who reviewed the translation, and when was the translation last compared to the source? A bad answer sounds like "we ran it through a tool" or "we'll get to it".
Version control: When the document is revised, how does the manager know which version they're looking at, and how does the company retire the old version? A bad answer sounds like "we email it out" or "it's on the intranet".
Remote hires: When the company hires its first person in a new state, what is the checklist, and who runs it? A bad answer sounds like "HR will look at it" or "we'll handle it when it comes up".
Audit trail: If a claim is filed tomorrow, can the company show, document by document, who reviewed the handbook, when, and what they changed? A bad answer sounds like "we'd have to look" or "we've the emails somewhere".
Discipline test: Pick a recent disciplinary action. Which document version was used, who used it, and would the language be read the same way in the state where the action took place? A bad answer sounds like "we used the current one" without knowing what the current one said.
The Cost of Getting This Wrong
The cost of a bad handbook structure isn't the legal fee. The legal fee is the line item. The cost that never appears on an invoice is the cost of a manager who reads the wrong paragraph and acts on it, the cost of a separation that could have been handled differently, the cost of a settlement that was paid because the document contradicted itself, and the cost of the year the HR lead spends rebuilding the structure under the pressure of a claim instead of building it from a position of choice. None of those costs are budgeted. All of them are real.
The second-order cost is the cost of trust. A handbook that says one thing in one state and another in the next is a document the manager stops reading. A document the manager stops reading is a document the manager stops using. A document the manager stops using is a document that exists for the auditor and not for the business, and the next time the document matters, it will be the moment the business needed it to be right. The cost of rebuilding that trust is the cost of getting the next hundred decisions right, and it's the cost that no one accounts for until they're paying it.
So the question to put to the next person who says the handbook is fine isn't whether the document is legally correct. The question is whether the manager in the other state would know what to do on a Tuesday morning, and whether the company would be able to show, after the fact, that the document was the document the manager was supposed to use. If the answer to either question is no, the cost of the structure is smaller than the cost of the structure that doesn't exist.
When You Are Ready to Go Further
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If the team is at the point where the structure decision has been made and the next decision is the tool that supports it, the comparison work we've done on policy management platforms is the place to look. We don't recommend a vendor. We publish the criteria we used, the vendors we looked at, and the trade-offs each one carries, and we leave the choice to the team that has to live with it.
If the team isn't yet at the point of a tool decision and is still working through the structure, the older work in this category is the place to start. The two pieces on HR operations sit alongside this one, and they cover the function as a whole rather than the handbook as a document. Read them in either order, and read this one again when the structure has been chosen.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can one handbook cover every state?
A single document can be written for the strictest of the states the company operates in, and that document will apply in every state by default. The risk is that the document is also a promise, and a promise written for the strictest state is a promise in every other state, including the ones that didn't require it. In roughly thirty-eight states, courts have recognised the implied-contract exception to at-will employment, and specific promissory language in the document can override a clear disclaimer. So a single document can cover every state in the sense that one file applies everywhere, but it can't cover every state without the company making choices about what it's willing to promise everywhere. Take local advice before assuming the home-office document is safe to use as is.
How do I handle a country with different employment law?
A country outside the United States isn't a paragraph in a US handbook. Employment terms, including notice, severance, leave, and the form of the relationship, differ in shape, and consultation rights differ in kind. The right move is to stop trying to cover the country in the home document, get local advice, and build a country-specific terms document that handles the operative employment terms while the core document handles the conduct and ethics that are genuinely global. The split has to be explicit, the owner of the country layer has to be named, and the document the employee signs has to be the document that applies to them. Take local advice before assuming the home document covers it.
Who should own the local version of the handbook?
The owner of the local layer is the person who wakes up when a state law changes, who reviews the local supplement, and who has the authority to retire language that contradicts the core. In most companies, that person is a named member of the HR team, with local counsel as the reviewer rather than the owner. The local layer is the part of the document that gets read in a claim, and it's the part that drifts when no one is named. If the answer to "who owns the local version" is "everyone" or "we'll get to it", no one owns it, and the structure is a fiction.
Should I apply the highest standard everywhere?
Applying the highest common standard everywhere is the simplest structure to maintain and the most generous in claim exposure. It means the company lives with the cost of a promise it didn't have to make in every state, in exchange for a single document and a clear answer to the manager who asks. Applying the local minimum is cheaper in the jurisdictions that don't require the higher standard, but it requires a local layer the company can actually maintain. The choice depends on operational discipline, not on principle. A company that can't maintain a local layer should not have one, and should accept the cost of the higher standard. A company that can should pay only where it has to.
What should I do about remote workers in new states?
The first hire in a new state is the moment the document is tested. The right move is to treat that hire as a project, with a checklist of what changes in the handbook, a review of the discipline and severance sections against the new state's case law, and a named owner of the local layer before the new employee signs. The at-will acknowledgement should be re-issued if the document changes materially, and the version of the document the new employee signs should be the version that applies to them. If the answer is that HR will "look at it" when the offer goes out, the answer is no.
How do I keep the versions in sync?
Version control is the operational discipline that the structure depends on. Every revision of the core document should trigger a review of the local layer, every change in a state law should trigger a review of the local supplement, and the manager using the document should know which version they're looking at. The owner of the next revision is named, the reviewer of the next revision is named, and the date of the next review is on the document. A document that doesn't carry a version number and a review date is a document that no one can defend.
Is translation required?
The requirement depends on the language the employee actually works in, and on the jurisdictions the company operates in. As a general matter, a document the employee can't read is a document the employee can't be said to have agreed to, and a signed acknowledgement of a document the employee didn't read is weaker than a signed acknowledgement of a document the employee did. The translation has to be reviewed by a human, not a tool, and the translation has to be compared to the source on a known cadence. Take local advice on what is required in each jurisdiction.
One Handbook or Many: Multiple States, Multiple Countries
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