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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

BMT Office Administration

Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. In the CareerBuilder poll, 37% of respondents reported frequent gossip, while 27% admitted to making the rounds to chat with fellow employees about topics unrelated to work. Offline Procrastination. Taking frequent and/or extended bathroom breaks. Taking too many smoke or snack breaks.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people. Seeing Red Does it matter what colour of font you use in your e-mail? Be Angry but Send not!

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The importance of having someone to talk to

Laughing all the Way to Work

The problem that sometimes occurs with sharing with current co-workers is it can turn into office gossip. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Some situations however need to be kept in-house and only those who are involved would benefit from discussing it and understand what it was about.

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Psst! I'm in a bad mood, pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I wouldnt recommend talking about a co-worker with someone at the office or it ends up being gossip and spreads a bad feeling about that person. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Talking to a third party who is totally uninvolved is much better.)