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A New Approach To Work: The Benefits Of Implementing Activity-Based Working In Your Office

Allwork

Consequently, movement and what anthropologists often refer to as mobility, which is the sum of small-scale movement tracked across larger geographic and temporal scales, are key targets of evolution.” One of the key drivers of poor worker health is office sedentism : sitting in one place for long periods of time.

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How the 21st Century office was born in post war Europe

Workplace Insight

The resultant idea of Bürolandschaft (German for office landscape ) applied organic forms to create something they considered more humane and natural. He shared the Schelle’s yearning for egalitarianism and human focussed design and once bemoaned that ‘the cubiclizing of people in modern corporations is monolithic insanity’.

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Retrieve Your Files With Ease

Professional Assistant Blog

Do you feel that you should have some sort of control over these files on how you find them, for future reference? This way, you can keep track of all files in any way, shape or form. Your boss could ask you for something at a moments notice and you are expected to find the information within minutes.

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File System Preparation Is An Essential Step In Getting Things Done

Productivity Bits

If you are like me, the desk drawers in your cubicle make up a good storage for your physical filing system.Your desk drawers will hold all the materials that are necessary for your job. Set aside a drawer for your reference materials which should remain separate from your file system. Physical File System. Digital File System.

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Using Microsoft Office E-mail Templates

Professional Assistant Blog

About 90% of my work comes in the form of e-mails, since I want to be able to track anything and everything that managers and fellow staff members send me. There is a simple solution to this - E-mail Templates! There are certain tasks that I need to do on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc. basis and it usually involves e-mail.

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Forgot Your Password? Again?

Professional Assistant Blog

Fill long registration and checkout forms with one click. If you need to remember lots of different passwords, try using RoboForm. Here are some features directly from the site: Manage Your Passwords and Log In automatically. Encrypt your passwords to achieve complete security. Generate random passwords to maximize password strength.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-workers favourite, OMG! Writing all in caps is a form of e-mail shouting. This is the commonest form of color blindness, but it affects only.4 Is that the message you want to send to your recipient? 4 percent of women&#.

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