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Office Party Etiquette Matters All Year

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Whether it’s a happy hour meet up, a March Madness lunch potluck, or a family Fourth of July event, setting behavioral guidelines is important for any type of gathering with work colleagues. Yet, 43% of respondents report that “alcohol was necessary to make office parties bearable.”

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5 Etiquette Lessons for the Workplace

On The Job

The workplace sometimes changes so rapidly it's hard to keep up with what we're supposed to do and not do. Should you stand up when shaking hands? These are all common etiquette questions that Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, can answer correctly. Giving up texting. Tweeting responsibly. Shaking hands.

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Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up?

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? This, of course, can be a nightmare, since you could be walking up many flights. If you end up standing right near the buttons, people expect you to be the conductor. No one wants you to report the weather. That’s what The Weather Network is for.

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Do Workplace Etiquette Rules Need to Change?

On The Job

The etiquette police who are trying to keep up with the rapidly evolving world of mobile devices and their effect on the workplace probably would say the same. A recent Intel survey found that 9 of 10 Americans report they've seen others misuse technology ; 75% agree that mobile etiquette is worse than it was a year ago.

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Escape The Desk: The Ultimate List Of Inspiring, Free Places to Work Remotely — Parks, Coffee Shops, And More!

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There is a certain etiquette and unspoken rule that comes to working remotely from a library and this is expected to be respected. If a park doesn’t have WiFi set up, a remote worker would need to get a data plan and computer that has an embedded Sim card (eSIM) so they can access the internet like they could with a cellphone.

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E-mail Etiquette

Laughing all the Way to Work

With the increasing use of email as the first choice for business correspondence it opens a whole new world of dos and don'ts for the assistant.Here are Some Good-Sense Email Etiquette Tips: Email Salutations: Although email is less formal than writing a letter it is still polite to open with a greeting. 4 percent of women”.

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

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The results led to our first “ Email etiquette ” story. Bonus fix: Using a separate field indicator (“Flag for Follow-up”) is better than pre-fixing subjects with “AR”. In an organization that is a multicultural company, it’s easy to get surnames and first names mixed up. Pet peeve: Fancy signatures.

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