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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. 24 million Americans consider abandoning their careers for self-employment, according to FreshBooks’s 2019 Self-Employment in America Report. It’s growing.

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How to Prevent Burnout

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Travel Association , 768 million vacation days went unused by employees in 2019, and 236 million of those had to be forfeited entirely. Whatever your relaxing activity is, make a date in your calendar a few times a week to find that space for yourself. According to the U.S. Move your body.

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4 Friendship Apps to Help You Connect with New People

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Friendships are good for your mental and physical health Declining friendships aren’t just a detriment to your social calendar; friendships are intimately tied to mental health. Nykki Olejniczak, a 22-year-old Yubo user from Hillsboro, Oregon, joined in 2019 to find friends to play video games with.

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5 Must-Have Skills for Progressive Assistants From Joan’s book, Who Took My Pen… Again?

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Think of the future in terms of: new projects outcomes goals your executive’s calendar important upcoming event potential business Consider trends and changes in technology. Offer valid June 6, 2019 through June 10, 2019 Use Promo Code: JUNE30. Decide and then evaluate your decision. Use your head. Future – Focus.

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9 Pro Tips for Avoiding Loneliness When You Work From Home

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I try to schedule lunch or coffee with a friend once a week in order to have a little socialization on my calendar. This article was published in July 2019 and has been updated. Grab lunch with a friend to avoid work-from-home loneliness. This has been one of the best ways for me to combat loneliness.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

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They are not paid the big bucks to manage a calendar and book flights. On top of that, these leaders don’t do a very good job of managing their schedules because they don’t have time to look at their calendar from a holistic perspective. A great executive assistant looks at the entire calendar for a month—what happened last week?

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Work Sabbaticals: The Latest Nonprofit Retention Strategy

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In December 2019, after years of requesting a sabbatical, my board of directors approved a 12-week paid sabbatical planned for June 2020, after our legislative session concluded. I live by my (multiple) alarms, to-do lists and calendar. What I discovered on sabbatical. Unstructured time was an unexpected benefit of my sabbatical.

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