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Does Remote Work Produce Less Breakthroughs and Innovation?

Allwork

The notion challenges proponents of remote work by highlighting the potential benefits of in-person work environments — suggesting teams that adopt in-person work environments are likely more capable of innovation.

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Hybrid Work: It’s Not a Revolution, it’s a Revelation

Allwork

But even pre-COVID, these types of organizational structures were increasingly seen as antiquated, as people recognized the need for different environments depending on the task that was being performed. And even prior to 2020, some organizations were already moving towards a new planning concept known as Activity-Based Working.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

In its fourth quarter of 2020 and first quarter of 2021 financial reports—while many other companies were experiencing layoffs and frantically downsizing—BELAY announced record-breaking numbers. The choice to send workers home felt temporary in 2020. Virtual assistants, it appears, are part of the new normal.

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The New Normal: Finding Routine and Perspective in Coffee Shops

Success

Put together, these things might constitute an array of distractions, and they don’t sound like the ideal work environment. I can’t imagine anyone having made it through 2020 without some sort of mental health struggle. I even filed a complicated story to an editor. Awkward exploratory Tinder dates happening across the room.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

I would like to address the recent article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2020 by Rachel Feintzeig regarding The Vanishing Executive Assistant. The writer immediately points out that technology and automation have chipped away at duties like papers to be filed and landlines to be answered. January 21, 2020.

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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. Time tracking and file tracking.

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Book Review: The Fifth Age of Work

Small Business Labs

.  The book's premise is changes and shifts in technology, social trends, economics and demographics are leading to a new age of work, which he describes as: The Fifth Age of Work is an emerging world of work broadly defined by the rise of cloud-based technology such as remote computing, file storage and retrieval (e.g.,

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