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Finding Joy and Friendship in a Pandemic-Induced Hobby

Success

I needed something to do—a hobby—that would force me to put my phone down and redirect my attention and my thumbs. In fact, a 2020 LendingTree survey found that half of millennials have a side hustle, and most rely on it for income. We exchanged phone numbers and Instagram handles. And there’s me, a self-taught hobbyist.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

Following the success of a New Zealand-based trial at property planning company, Perpetual Guardian in 2018, Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart set up 4 Day Week Global, the not-for-profit platform for the promotion of the four-day week. Instead, look at the results.”.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

Flocc alternates heads-down “red time” with Swedish fika ( a coffee break), while Glasgow call center Pursuit Marketing offers workers free breakfast before they hit the phones. Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018.