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Guest Post: Simple Green Office Practices

Eco-Office Gals

Even if you have to wear stockings and a blazer to work every day, that doesn’t mean that you can’t wear clothes that are safe for the environment. Believe it or not, there are tons clothes made from organic cotton, wool and hemp-based materials. The first is to bring a few desk plants to decorate your cubicle.

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What NOT to get your assistant this year for administrative professionals day

Office Dynamics

Clothing – Your assistant is fashionable and always looks sharp, great gift then, right? You may think you know your assistants style or color preference or even size but my advice is you don’t and you shouldn’t buy them clothes. It has too many knick-knacks or they have a quilt hanging in their cubicle.

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Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween

Professional Assistant Blog

Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event. This has been a tradition in our office for quite some time now, where people would decorate the office, dress up in funky costumes and bring baked treats for everyone.

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Celebrating National Customer Service Week by honoring the best

Service Untitled

In the overwhelmingly successful business called Zappos, their philosophy, culture, and obsession with customer service has changed the 1999 Internet shoe business to shoes, clothing and more with annual revenues of over one billion dollars. It’s a place to be adventuresome, learn, and grow.

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Outlook Rules That Rule

Professional Assistant Blog

It feels like I just went through my closet and threw a whole bunch of clothes out that I never wear. My Inbox is now empty If there is an e-mail that I havent looked at in awhile and regularly press delete when I get it, that is my cue to unsubscribe. " I am having withdrawal symptoms.

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Ron Finley, the Self-Proclaimed Gangsta Gardener, Found Purpose Fighting Food Poverty in South LA

Success

while passersby dutifully commute to their cubicles, Finley heads to his garden and asks an inconspicuously complex question: “Why not slow down and live your joy?” As a teenager, Finley’s clothes never fit right, and he could not unsee how fashion specifically was not available in shapes and sizes inclusive of people of color.

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I’m telling my friends about the bad customer service

Service Untitled

In the nearby mall, there is a young adult clothing store which hires its sales personnel by their physical attractiveness – agreed the young women and men are extremely good-looking, but it hasn’t been any boom to their customer service skills.