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How to Successfully Manage Remote Employees

Office Dynamics

Whether it is a few employees or your entire workforce, it is becoming more and more likely that if you have employees, you are facing the challenge of managing remote workers. In fact, between 2005 and 2012, the number of remote workers in the U.S. Time tracking: Accountability is another essential element in remote management.

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Feeling Stressed at Work? Is it you? Is it them?

Office Dynamics

Time and paper: 90% of all documents handled each day are merely shuffled. Because people aren’t trained in the decision making process required to find a home for the document. It costs $120 in labor to track down a misplaced document or $250 to recreate it. Tags: Stress Management. The average U.S.

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Feeling Stressed at Work? Is it you? Is it them?

Office Dynamics

Time and paper: 90% of all documents handled each day are merely shuffled. Because people aren’t trained in the decision making process required to find a home for the document. It costs $120 in labor to track down a misplaced document or $250 to recreate it. 80% of filed papers are never referenced again. The average U.S.

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

Sometimes people feel that they need to send me every document at once. The “oops” factor: Avoid forwarding the “sour grapes” email to your manager or the sender’s manager. Unless it’s a really out-of-line response, neither manager has time to deal with a writer’s occasional moodiness. I never regret doing this.”.

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Arrr-guably Similar: How Coworking Channels The Rebel Spirit Of Pirates

Allwork

The emergence of coworking around 2005 provided an alternative lifestyle, too. The well-respected community manager is often at the helm of a workspace community and works tirelessly to bring people together and establish values of fairness across the community. A pirate ship didn’t operate under a hierarchy either.

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Our iPad Review

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Good News - The Unemployment Rate Went Up in August | Main | Wall Street Journal on the Two-Track Economy » September 07, 2010 Our iPad Review The iPad is a huge success.    Many of these are being used by small businesses. . 

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Bioteams Part 2: The Team Connectivity Zone

BioTeams

T his article was originally published in 2005 by Ken Thompson and Robin Good. Firstly we can differentiate between ‘team message situations’ and ‘team document situations’ – we need both forms of communication but each at the appropriate time. Introduction. So how can we exploit the Bioteam Hotline?