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2019 Joan Burge Innovation Award for Assistants

Office Dynamics

As trailblazers in the administrative training industry, Office Dynamics wanted to celebrate outstanding ideas birthed by administrative and executive assistants. Therefore, I created the Joan Burge Innovation Award in 2019. And if you attend our 2020 Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence , please submit your innovative idea.

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These Top 10 Celebrity Franchise Owners Are Winning Outside the Limelight, Too

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Mahomes not only holds the NFL’s largest-ever contract (a $450 million extension in 2020), but he also owns a stake in the Texas-based Whataburger franchise. In 2020, Mahomes also bought a minority stake in the Kansas City Royals sports franchise. The franchise, which averages an estimated $3.2

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Unveiling the Hidden Potentials of Remote Work Productivity

Allwork

A 2020 Stanford University study revealed that remote workers were 5% more productive than office-bound counterparts. between 2010 and 2019 to 3.3% between 2010 and 2019 to a decline of 2.6% Additionally, companies must offer proper training and support to facilitate efficient and effective work. during the pandemic.

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When It Come to Employee Mental Health, These 10 Companies Are Setting the Example

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“The Wait Until 8th movement is all about community,” says founder Brooke Shannon in a 2019 interview with Institute for Family Studies. “We Unilever Mission Unilever launched a mental health champions program that trains employees to be a listening ear for other employees in times of need.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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In a survey published in 2020’s “ Building the On-Demand Workforce ” report from the Harvard Business School and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 60% of business leaders said they expected to increasingly “rent” “borrow” or “share” talent with other companies. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports.

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Spending on Pets and Investing in Pet Startups Continues to Grow

Small Business Labs

spending on pets reached nearly $100 billion in 2020, up from $95.7 billion in 2019, according to the American Pet Products Association.     Leap, which started in 2018, provides training, seed investments and other support to pet startups.      BTW, in case you were wondering, 63.4

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The Growing Army of Freelancers Providing Services to Businesses

Small Business Labs

MBO Partners recently released its 2020 Client of Choice study results, which found that 7.6 Other popular professions include education and training (8 percent), sales and marketing (7 percent), and healthcare and sciences (8 percent). million independent professionals (freelancers, independent consultants, etc.)

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