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

BMT Office Administration

Before 2020, employee monitoring in a traditional office environment was pretty straightforward. The history of employee monitoring’s various forms. An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency.

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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’m sure you’ve realized while it’s common to have a lot of office politics, it is not fun to work in a gossip-filled environment. The link is that original post. 4) For readers who may be asking what you should have done.

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Commuting to Work

Laughing all the Way to Work

Car Pooling If taking public transit is not an option for you, try forming a carpool, or drive to a Park n Ride and commute from there. If you are driving with co-workers: Either no shop talk or make your time productive and get ideas, problem solve, brainstorm Discuss cell phone use. And this is a true story). How about you?

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Retrieve Your Files With Ease

Professional Assistant Blog

This way, you can keep track of all files in any way, shape or form. Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips My answer to this is: 1 comments for this post American Folder Company Great Article--As we at American Folder Company understand the challenges that many office environments face each day.

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The Paperless Society: A dream or a necessity?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Public pressure has made governments move to set new targets and goals for the environment, and they have made advances in going paperless with the acceptance of e-filing of documents and setting standards for waste management. E-mail etiquette rules will also be essential to follow, and will become the new standard for business writing.

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

When I receive an initial request for a meeting, I use a meeting form and write down the information I need: who is requesting the meeting, what is the purpose of the meeting, where it will be held and a phone number or an e-mail address and dates that are available. ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared? 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

For my readers from other countries, you will note there is a section for foreign dignitaries and if you click on that it will give you the proper form to address just about anyone in the world. Another helpful site I refer to for protocol on addressing officials is www.formsofaddress.info. ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared?