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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. They are not paid the big bucks to manage a calendar and book flights. A great executive assistant looks at the entire calendar for a month—what happened last week?

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13 Undeniable Ways to Get Sh*t Done

Success

According to a 2019 study published in Sleep Medicine , when night owls began to consistently shift their “sleep/wake timings” by two hours, they showed “significant improvements to self-reported depression and stress, as well as improved cognitive… performance measures,” among other benefits. Despite that, distractions can still derail you.

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

Ideas.Ted

No company just lopped a day off their calendar. 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. Instead, they had to meaningfully redesign how they worked.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

When I met Vanessa in 2019 we immediately clicked and I have had the pleasure of watching her grow and expand in her career. Initially, I did receive a few responses, asking me to provide video-pre-screens [not my favorite thing to do, I'm discovering] or to participate in phone pre-screens, which I giddily did, with zero results.

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Ensuring payroll compliance in 2024: What’s new?

BMT Office Administration

Important Changes to Know About The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was signed into law in December 2022, and it’s collectively referred to as SECURE 2.0 – an update to the SECURE Act from 2019. The IRS e-help desk phone number is 866-255-0654. This includes income tax returns, Forms 941 and 940, and information returns.

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