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Is Using Social Media at Work a Good Idea?

On The Job

While many employers wring their hands over the use of social media by employees at work – fearing legal problems or lost productivity – the evidence is mounting that letting employees tweet or check Facebook during their workday is not only inevitable, but it may make good business sense. Heres the column I did for Gannett/USAToday.com.

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Small Business Checklist: Business Process Outsourcing | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

You want good service, pay on time. If you don’t, you’ll be last on the work and service agenda, that means you business suffers. If you can’t afford the service don’t hire them. Just to make sure you don’t get taken to the proverbial cleaners, and to compare service levels.

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Answering Reader Mail: What Do Employers Look for in High-Level EA Candidates?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

First and foremost, your job as an EA is to master working with many different people in a customer service role, and the admin work is actually secondary. 2) Another suggestion is to be happy about working with all levels of staff from the security guard to the executives and treat them all well. 5) Learn to never say no.

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An Open Letter To Our Prime Minister, David Cameron

The Small Business Blog

Legal Security and Fairness : The United Kingdom is a place where any person – whether in business or not- should be able to live in a situation of legal security and fairness. This penalises small businesses, which can ill-afford to pay out for expensive legal advice. It is a basic human right to live in legal certainty.

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