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It’s time to review (or create) your document retention policy

BMT Office Administration

Worried that your company might not have a particular document on hand if the IRS conducted an audit? They create a document retention policy that clarifies what needs to be saved, where, and for how long. Courts and government agencies frown upon individual employees selectively keeping or tossing important documents.

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What Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die?

Success

This, of course, falls in conjunction with the standard logistics of death: planning a funeral, finding and filing a will, and going through a loved one’s physical belongings. adults have no idea what happens to their digital assets, such as email and social media accounts, or online banking data and passwords when they die.

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13 Ways You Should be Using Your Smartphone for Business

Tips From T. Marie

Not to mention sharing on social media. Connecting with your market via social media or a business blog is the new full color brochure. With photo editing apps you can turn something less than stellar into social media stunning. Social Posts & Meme’s. It’s social media gold.

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Just how much time is lost to disorganisation?

Practically Perfect PA

Paperwork piling up is a problem for UK offices too, with the average worker printing off 343,504 pages of documents over their lifetime in the office. So, getting organised and implementing policies or a filing system to help life in the office run a little more smoothly could be very worthwhile in the long run.

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

Procedures are more than just documents; they are a roadmap for new hires, guiding them through the complexities of their new role and the company culture without constant supervision. The Power of Documentation If you have everything documented and ready to go when a new hire begins, it expedites the onboarding process.

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

BMT Office Administration

For instance, if you don’t want employees checking their social media during the workday, you can choose to restrict sites like Facebook and Instagram (you can also block sites containing inappropriate content). Others have special tracking features for social media sites, where you can view specific employee actions.

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Records Management Strategy

Office Dynamics

Question: “We’re getting concerned where I work that the overwhelming amount of documents and data that we generate every day aren’t being safely stored and tracked.