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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

Success

Research has shown that workplace stress costs the U.S. economy up to $187 billion every year between lost productivity and health care and medical costs. Humor is a mindset that can be developed by forming new habits. That’s no laughing matter—but laughing can help address this problem.

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5 Ways To Avoid Well-Being Washing And Provide Authentic Support To Employees

Allwork

Examples of out-of-touch well-being washing actions include encouraging employees to take well-being walks but giving them no time for it, facilitating support services that refuse to talk about work-related issues, and providing holiday discounts amid a cost of living crisis. This is already a reality for some, like in the U.K.,

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Memos, Not Meetings: Why Asynchronous Work and Communication Are Best

Virtual Moxie

For me, the key to “memos not meetings” is that what’s shared is available to all the people involved in written form, and as a result, can be processed asynchronously. Because there’s no set time taken from the day for the meeting, asynchronous communication is also more cost effective. So, we have two staff meetings each year.

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Zooming In On Engagement: How Turning Off Your Camera Can Hurt Your Career

Allwork

In remote work, however, such forms of expression and engagement are limited. Be sure to clearly communicate the intent of the call or agenda to orient participants to what’s coming. Instinctively, it feels likely that remote employees (or others who are less engaged) suffer some cost as a result of being out of sight.

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5 Tools That'll Help Recruiters Provide the Best Candidate Experience

Recruit CRM

If diversity hiring and inclusivity are on your agenda, a text analyser is a must investment! Video interviewing tools are a great way to provide the best candidate experience as these tools efficiently help ease scheduling conflicts and reduce costs and hiring time.

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20 do’s and don’ts for team building events

Practically Perfect PA

However if they are badly organised they achieve nothing while costing the company a small fortune. If you have organised an away day ask the delegates to complete a feedback form and really do follow up on what they have to say. Do leave some space in the agenda for the team to discuss any problems they have faced.

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The sector responds to the Spring Budget

Workplace Insight

Richard Beresford, Chief Executive of the National Federation of Builders (NFB) “The Spring Budget offers opportunities to offset costs, invest in innovations and see paths to growth but apart from a strong hand played on energy, it doesn’t enable growth in practice. You can see what some people have had to say below, in no particular order.

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