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Offering Remote Work Options Creates a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace Environment

Allwork

Allwork.Space and Alliance Virtual Offices conducted a survey, and also analyzed third party research, to understand how remote work impacts individuals’ health and wellbeing. . In addition to a literature review, we also surveyed workers across Alliance Virtual Offices and Allwork.Space to see how our teams compared to a control group.

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Survey: Most Business Owners Remain Optimistic in California

Small Business CEO

Most California-based entrepreneurs want to invest more resources to grow their company, according to a recent survey by California Bank & Trust (CB&T). Nearly 38 percent of small business owners want to conduct international sales efforts, while 53 percent want to hire new employees in 2014. photo credit: Adam Kuban.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

Women of color-owned firms saw a growth of 43% between 2014 and 2019, while firms owned by African American women saw both the highest growth rate (50%) and the highest number of “net new women-owned businesses” (42%). And the pool of millennial small-business owners is growing—just last year, they made up only 7% of the survey sample.

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Win an award-winning Brother office labeller

Practically Perfect PA

Industry research* has shown high levels of customer satisfaction with Brother’s P-touch labelling range in Europe; 94 per cent of business users surveyed were satisfied or very satisfied with the product and 92 per cent would buy another Brother labelling machine. contact-form]. This post is sponsored by Brother.

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What can assistants expect in 2015?

Practically Perfect PA

I genuinely think 2014 was a turning point in our industry and I think 2015 will see a consolidation of our efforts to take our profession forward. The situation has improved over the last few years and we have seen record numbers attend events in 2014 but it will continue to be a struggle in 2015. Recognition.

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

Skip forward to summer 2014 and the voices in my head were pretty vocal about running some sort of event. but then I put the Practically Perfect PA survey out there. I wanted to share some of the survey responses with you today. The role of networking internally and externally to help assistants develop.

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Reaping the Rewards of Meaningfulness

Energage

says at least a quarter of his staff started as college interns. Our first intern, Jennifer, started in 1994, and she still works here,” Rolband said. We hire a lot of people right out of school, and we hire a lot of college students as interns. We have a lot of interns who have been here 10 to 15 years already.

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