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What It’s Like to Float in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank

Success

The water’s high salinity means that no life form, including microbes and other pathogens, can survive. Before you can reserve your session, you have to agree to a release form. I also decide in advance how often I’ll log in to check my email inbox (usually every hour) as well as when and how long my breaks will be.

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Employee Monitoring: How to (and not to) track employee productivity

BMT Office Administration

Before 2020, employee monitoring in a traditional office environment was pretty straightforward. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 threw a wrench into this tried and true system for most companies. As early as May 2020, one-third of all employees began working from home. The history of employee monitoring’s various forms.

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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

Success

His mouth is blocked by a powder-blue medical face mask, but I can see a smile forming in his eyes. I do my typical morning email and text check-in—a routine that now involves looking at the latest COVID-19 numbers in my state, Illinois, which was in the midst of a surge. Paint peels from the walls. OK, let’s do it,” he says.

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8 tips for completing your first-quarter 941

BMT Office Administration

Your first-quarter Form 941 is due Monday, May 2. So you have two more days to ensure your form is correct (yay!). Ensure the EIN you enter on the form exactly matches the EIN the IRS assigned to your business. You can’t use your Social Security number on Form 941. Mail or email your form on time.

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Your one-stop guide for business resilience planning

BMT Office Administration

After all, disruptive events can happen at any time — and they don’t always take the form of a global pandemic. While organizational resilience was always seen as necessary, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 served as a crude wake-up call for most. That way, you can form a hierarchy covering your greatest and least significant threats.

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Ep 142: Planning Events in a Post-Covid World with Lacretia Adamski and Meagan Strout

Go Burrows

Throughout her career, she has also formed and managed administrative teams. She has been recognized by Salesforce Women’s Network as Woman of the Month (July 2020) and by WashingtonExec as a finalist for the 2020 Executive Assistant of the Year, cementing her reputation as a trailblazer within the executive support community.

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Adapting To Versus Adopting Cloud Computing

Small Business Labs

small businesses will be fully adapted to cloud computing by 2020, more than doubling the current 37 percent rate. This is because most small businesses use the cloud for at least some tasks and especially email and social media.   We chose this metric because we felt cloud adoption was not an informative statistic. . 

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