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Employee Monitoring: How to (and not to) track employee productivity

BMT Office Administration

Beyond that, droves of companies that were inexperienced with remote work were creating monitoring policies for the first time. An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency. In small doses, this isn’t too big of an issue.

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Is Using Social Media at Work a Good Idea?

On The Job

Facebook announced this week is has 500 million users. But the truth is, employees do use Facebook at work. For example, a Forrester Research study found that 70 percent of 303 information-technology workers who use social media said it makes them more productive. And not one of them ever, ever, ever uses it at work.

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Productive Communication: You Don't Have to Yell To Be Heard - Part 2

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Meetings can be a room filled with a number of people or a phone call between two people and everything in-between.    If you are delivering a new policy for your company or department - you probably need a meeting. PS - Facebook is a place where I like to share good information as well as have a little fun. 

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Should You List Your Business With Specialized Directory Services?

Stephanie LH Calahan

There are blog directories, directories of upcoming teleconferences, niche directories, phone directories, etc. For example, I encourage everyone to evaluate and consider getting on LinkedIn , Facebook and Twitter because they are in the top 100 sites of ALL of the internet.   Ok, let's go. all over the web. 

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2 Big Myths About Work You Need to Ditch

On The Job

Atkins says this is just one example of employees being unfamiliar with their rights and responsibilities in the workplace. For example, if you “create a management problem” by making statements that could be considered harassing or discriminatory, you may be setting the groundwork for a pink slip. Others include: • Speaking your mind.

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The Admin’s Impact on Employee Morale & Culture Whitepaper

Admin Awards

It’s important that you use your voice to advocate for the company, leader, or policy when you’re speaking to employees, and for the employees when you’re speaking to your leader. Instead, they reached out via phone calls, emails, and texts. Only you can speak to both sides of the house in a truly effective way.

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Social marketing 101: respond to your customers about social issues too

Service Untitled

Does your organization have a Facebook page where a customer can either “Like” or become “Friends”? Statistically the majority of Facebook posts and Tweets remain unanswered. A few weeks ago I posted on the Lancome Facebook page and asked why they were still using live animals.