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Office Party Etiquette Matters All Year

Allwork

Here are some policies to implement before throwing the next office party: 1. Mutual respect must be acknowledged and encouraged Office parties by their definition spur social engagement, but breaking the ice with coworkers can make people anxious, which might explain why 44% of workers need alcohol to attend office parties.

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6 Communication Tips for Executives and their Virtual Executive Assistants

Worxbee

It’s not generally good etiquette to try calling in without a booked meeting. You might assume they mean NFL and book tickets for a game coming up in the client’s city this weekend, but what if they meant an alternative definition of football? One way you can encourage this is through a virtual “open door” policy.

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Answering Reader Mail: Being Terminated (Social Etiquette Part 2)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Hello Readers - 8 months ago, a reader asked me a question about fraternization and social etiquette at work. I will definitely answer your question. While the company has a lax policy of just make sure your work gets done, the fact that the event was related to amicable termination is the problem.

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Employee Monitoring: How to (and not to) track employee productivity

BMT Office Administration

Beyond that, droves of companies that were inexperienced with remote work were creating monitoring policies for the first time. That means if a company doesn’t have a written policy stating that they’ll watch employees on webcam, they likely aren’t doing it secretly. In fact, it would be illegal to do so.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer Escalations and You

Service Untitled

Employees, and especially managers, who are too far removed from the actual issues and the actual customers are going to have a harder time coming up with effective policies and good ideas. Policy creation, personnel management, interviewing, etc. Focusing on management. This is a valid point as well. This is a valid point as well.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Employee satisfaction a key to.

Service Untitled

Depending on the company policy, budget or protocol, definitive rewards keep employees striving towards the next level. If an employee perceives something in the company policy or required protocol when dealing with customers isn’t working, someone in management should deal with the problem before it becomes a major issue.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » B&H Customer Service

Service Untitled

Liberal return policy. B&H isn’t the only retail store that has a very liberal return policy (see this post on Nordstrom). A liberal return policy represents a desire to keep customers loyal to the company in the long run instead of just making money off of them in the short run.