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What’s Going On With Office Vacancies?

Allwork

The costs are high, the expertise needed is great, and properties built to house workers in their cubicles often lack important characteristics that are important or required for rental housing, like adequate daylight penetration deep into each floor plate. Educational and medical users such as the Savannah College of Art and Design and St.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

They each took the initiative to get appropriate training and education to better equip them in the areas they were interested in. Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills.

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Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

Laughing all the Way to Work

After reading the article on the "remote clicker", which is what I used to call it, I asked John in the cubicle beside me. My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career. Reactions: 2comments: Patty said. Hi Patricia and fellow admins. Thanks Patty.

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

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At the Time, Americans had offices, private offices, and the notion that you would sort of work at a desk without a cubicle wall or something right next to someone else was strange to people, and it really pushed them. And you would believe this, but many people wouldn’t. That was anathema. They just took a private home.

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It's Lonely in the Corner Office.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Posted by Patricia Robb at 6:30 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , co-workers , cubicle , learning from each other , open workspace , professional assistant , teamwork Reactions: Newer Post Older Post Home Join me for a Webinar, Sept. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

But what is scarier to me is spending my life sitting in a cubicle. And don’t be like those miserable people who work cubicle jobs. It’s often the cubicle-people who enable your dreams to succeed. Sure, my cubicle job sucks at times. And I didn’t say a word about cubicle people. Well, news flash.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

Success

They often have specialized and sometimes medical training on diagnosable mental health issues. If you’re sitting in a cubicle or your basement home office with the kids screaming upstairs, I imagine that being your own boss sounds delicious. Is formal training important for me, or can I lean on my life experience and self-education?

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