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Controlled Chaos or Neat Freak? Discover Your Organizational Identity To Boost Productivity

Allwork

Clutter is not inherently negative, but it becomes problematic when it affects work or mental health. A sterile desk, several filing cabinets, and a sliding drawer that hosts several pens and pencils may automatically come to mind when you think of an organized office, but in reality, organization doesn’t need to look this way.

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Master Your Memory with Ron White

Success

Now imagine taking all the files out of the folders in your computer and dumping them on the desktop. Programs, documents, videos, audio files—you put thousands of stored items randomly on top of each other. If your file is the stove, catch whatever you’re filing on fire. Associations for the remaining files.

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Hybrid Work: It’s Not a Revolution, it’s a Revelation

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This article was written by Anna Grayhek , and was originally published on Work Design Magazine. According to the 2022 Work Trend Index , 53 percent of employees are more likely to prioritize health and wellbeing over work than before the pandemic. Office design must account for the priority reset brought forth by the pandemic.

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Downsize and Organize Your Digital Clutter

Office Dynamics

Physical clutter can damage your health. If you’ve ever spent a morning trying to track down a lost file on your hard drive or searching through a decade of email, you know that digital disorder can also take a toll on your wellbeing. Do you usually rely on your search box to help you find files? Develop Naming Guidelines.

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Retrieve Your Files With Ease

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Retrieve Your Files With Ease By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you have quite a bit of filing to do? B eing able to retrieve the data is more important than an organized alphabetized file drawer.

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The New Normal: Finding Routine and Perspective in Coffee Shops

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I can’t imagine anyone having made it through 2020 without some sort of mental health struggle. And yet they say that, despite the very real health and financial consequences of a pandemic, extreme events tend to exaggerate difficulties that are already there, simmering under all the coping mechanisms we’ve created to keep them at bay.

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The Perils Of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Training

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines workplace harassment as “unwelcome or offensive conduct that is detrimental to an employer’s work performance, professional advancement, and/or mental health.”. What needs to change and why some organizations are more “at risk”.

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