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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. Completely transforming a cumbersome administrative procedures binder that was hundreds of pages.

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Unveiling the Hidden Potentials of Remote Work Productivity

Allwork

Companies offering remote work options can also save on cost-of-living expenses by hiring talent in more affordable regions, both domestically and internationally. between 2010 and 2019 to 3.3% between 2010 and 2019 to a decline of 2.6% By spring 2022, this figure rose to 9%. since the pandemic’s inception.

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Want to Become a Mentor? Follow These 5 Steps

Success

You’ll learn about key mentorship skills, whether you should get mentorship training, and what’s required to start a professional mentoring business. Consider getting certified As someone new to mentoring, you may want to consider mentorship training through certification programs.

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

Success

“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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AI may boost productivity, but we are already becoming reliant on it, and that’s a problem

Workplace Insight

The report also highlights a trend noted last year: training models is getting expensive. New estimates show cutting-edge systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4 cost a staggering $78 million to train. The original transformer model (2017) cost around $900 to train, while RoBERTa Large (2019) was $160,000.

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Raise a Glass: The Popularity of Nonalcoholic Drinks Is Marking a Shift in Drinking Culture

Success

After her 2019 launch of products such as the Bombay Fire—which features pomegranate, chili and tea—Mocktail Club was a winner of a prize from Black Ambition, whose founder, Pharrell Williams, invests in and supports Black- and Hispanic-owned companies. adults participated in dry January in 2019. It’s not inferior.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

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. They’re a flexible expense. But ultimately, every company will hire freelancers or lose their edge, predicts interim Cameo CMO Greg Caplan. It’s growing.