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Most US firms are yet to match their culture to the demands of flexible working

Workplace Insight

Emails containing images or videos are favoured nearly 50 percent over plain text. Nearly half of respondents (46 percent) indicated that unwanted interruptions more than six times a day reduced their productivity or increased their stress.

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The Right Way to Share Problems at Work With Your Boss 

Success

If you are approaching an already stressed boss with a problem at work, you are unlikely to get the reception and validation you want and deserve. Similarly, notifying your boss in advance of your planned topic via an email or a conversation can help prepare them.” Timing and context are important in all communication.

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Can’t Keep a Job? Here’s Why

Eat Your Career

Every week, I get a ton of emails from blog readers with career questions they want me to answer. Typically, I don’t provide career advice via email—that’s why we have the monthly Q&A (“Ask the Career Coach”) video sessions. Remember that comparison is the thief of joy. People want to know why they can’t keep a job.

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Can’t Keep a Job? Here’s Why

Eat Your Career

Every week, I get a ton of emails from blog readers with career questions they want me to answer. Typically, I don’t provide career advice via email—that’s why we have the monthly Q&A (“Ask the Career Coach”) video sessions. Remember that comparison is the thief of joy. And those jobs that seem to be everything yours isn’t?

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Your Life Organized

Ian's Messy Desk

A Christmas Planning Checklist for November – One of the best ways to reduce the stress of holiday planning is to spread it over a number of months or even throughout the year. This Christmas Give the Gift of Time – Retailers would have us believe we need to spend, spend, spend to avoid comparisons to Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Major Meltdown in Time Management - Tips to Avoid it Happening To You

Stephanie LH Calahan

Thanks to: Willie Horton from French Alps of [link] or on Twitter: @gurdy_net 7 - Paired Comparison When you have a long list of items to prioritize, try a paired comparison.  .  Your success depends on your ability to pay attention.   Rather than looking at the entire list, break it down to one decision at a time.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

Success

But if I decide it requires too much effort to step outside and pick it up, an electronic edition is already in my email. And if the e-edition is too much effort, the same newspaper sends another email called the Daily Headlines Edition. That’s just one segment of local news. It doesn’t include television. MICHAEL GRAFF.

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