When
I made office work a priority, my physical workouts dipped.
We live in an age of electronic convenience: computers and their peripheral components have
made our office work incredibly simpler and more efficient.
She understands what is needed to
make an office work more effectively.
Let them help
you make your office work for you.
Not exact matches
He got up at 6:00 a.m.,
worked his day - job as a janitor and, in that pre-internet age,
made cold calls in the real estate
office until the wee hours.
Basing your
work on buyer personas prevents you from sitting on your butt in your comfortable
office just
making stuff up, which is the cause of most ineffective marketing.
To
make your transition easy, spaces like The Professional Centre offer fully furnished and maintained
offices that enable you to move today and start
working in your new
office abroad tomorrow.
This automatically put me in
work mode, which
made it difficult to focus on my wife and children for the brief time I have with them before heading to the
office.
There's a reason freelancers often suffer from distractions and lowered productivity, and why some of the most common advice for those who
work from home is to set aside a dedicated
office or
work place and to
make sure they get dressed for the day.
When you are spending most of your time at
work, it
makes sense that
office romances could occur.
«Try to
make norms explicit with your employees: «I don't expect you to
work after 4 p.m. — or 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. — and if I happen to send you an email at 10 p.m., I don't expect you to respond to it until you get into the
office the next day.
By
making physical and social improvements in your
office, you will find that your employees are more likely to be excited about coming into
work, more likely to feel a part of the company, and more likely to
work hard on their assigned tasks.
To ensure connectivity between our U.S.
offices, we love using tools like Slack to
make employees miles apart feel as though they
work sitting next to each other.
Through the data it collects in a growing number of companies, Moss and his team hope to eventually put numbers to the value of just about any
office practice or perk, enabling employers to instantly answer questions like, What would
make my staff happier — free food at
work or a shorter commute?
It's the idea of only hiring likeable people who would
make you want to come into the
office and hang out if they were
working on a Sunday.
Open - plan
offices and specific «perks» that seemed great in other people's businesses may not
work for yours, and your real concern for that big
office plan should be in what
makes your worker strongest
The problem with a lot of these fads, and
offices in general, is that many are
made at the behest of the big boss
making assumptions about what their people need to
work their hardest.
Moving furniture, posting pictures and personal items in their
office space, and
making upgrades to their equipment is all perfectly acceptable — people
work better in environments they've created, because most people understand what
works for them.
Wpromote's dog - friendly El Segundo headquarters, has
made it
work by
making sure to keep a section of the
office dog - free for employees who are allergic or just don't want possible distractions.
«
Make sure you have your environment and
office space the way you like it and that it's a pleasant place for you to
work,» she says.
If you are a business leader or entrepreneur and your team is primarily
working from home or locations other than the
office, keep watch to
make sure that they are collaborating — your employees should not be just a list of e-mail addresses or instant - messaging contacts.
This
makes them a no - go for
office use (unless you
work at home), and severely limits where it's socially acceptable to listen to music.
Moreover, it's a great venue for the self - employed developer, or those who just want to
make money while
working on other projects, or basically those who don't want to deal with
office drama.
The Harvard grad and author of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Business Plus, 2013) tweets uplifting quotes, links to emails he has sent to Zappos employees and links to articles about how to
make the
office a more fun, collaborative place to
work.
But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff
working out of 26
offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something
made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.
Economics is about more mundane things like producing steel and cars and
working in
offices — we have Olympics to take our minds off the dull things that
make the money.»
«Delve simply
makes work more intuitive and easier to navigate,» Julia White, general manager of
Office 365 Technical Product Management,» says in the announcement.
These are the people who
make work so enjoyable the team wants to be at the
office Monday morning.
Taiwan has the ability and is willing to
work with the United States in the Indo - Pacific region to
make more contributions,» the presidential
office said.
If you're
working together,
make this rule: Do not talk about or discuss
work outside of the
office, at home or when going out.
BC's provincial government has
made a concerted effort to
make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open
offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and
working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.
In the fall of 2013, Vigorate finally
made the decision to head north, relocating its Barcelona
office to London where it could
work on a plan to carve out a client base with the U.K. soccer clubs.
It's tough
working out of your spare bedroom as we once did; later wasn't much better: I
worked in our
make - shift
office, and Bryan was relegated to the kitchen.
One commenter on one of the Houzz polls described how she'd set up a really nice home
office that she described as her «hub,» and
made a point to
work there for at least part of each day.
According to Jennifer East, founder of Onida Family Advisors, which often
works with family
offices to help ease tricky discussions about money, this group is better off engaging a multi-family
office, because «the cost of having [a full] staff alone just doesn't
make sense.»
«Wherever you situation your
office,
make sure it has a door — standard, pocket, sliding, bifold, French or barn style — for times when you need to talk privately on the phone or
work without interruption.»
Your friends will be leaving the
office, turning
work mode off at 5 pm and heading to happy hour, while you are grinding away doing whatever it takes to
make it.
For huge swaths of the knowledge -
working, laptop - or tablet - toting world, technology has already
made a desk in an
office obsolete, or at least optional.
To keep this from happening, HR
works with the employee's doctor and pushes to get the person released to do some kind of
work — any kind of
work, to
make them come back to the
office.
In Spanning's case, not only did the company remain in its
offices, it was able to maintain many of the perks and traditions that
made it a great place to
work.
Having just wrapped up their three - month stint
working out of Techstars» New York City - based
office, the entrepreneurs that
make up the tech accelerator's graduating class know a thing of two about staying productive amidst chaos.
Scientists say
office work is
making us sick, causing problems ranging from obesity to cancer.
Small touches like flowers, paintings, and area rugs are meant to
make the
office feel less like a place of
work and more like a home.
«If you look at the evolution of
offices, we try to
make things very universal... that assumes that we all
work in the same way,» Pogue says.
I'm very conscious of
making time for my kids, whether that means
working with them (my oldest is interning in the
office this summer) or carving time out to go to tournaments and games.
This combination will
make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up articles based on the project you are
working on and
Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete.
To
make your
office party less of an ordeal for your team, tell them thanks for
working hard and then leave them alone.
«If
office people are given a chance to create ownership of their own space,» Wiseman observes, «they find ways to
make it
work.»
This change is causing some to feel constantly plugged in to the
office,
making it harder to separate
work and personal time.
As businesses, especially startups, attempt to provide amenities to hard -
working employees, however, alcohol is gradually
making its way back into the
office environment, but is it a wise idea?