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Breaking The Employee Burnout Cycle With Workplace Strategy

Allwork

Earlier this year, the American Psychological Association found that nearly 60% of employees reported negative impacts of work-related stress. And 36% reported mental weariness. Nearly half (44%) reported physical fatigue, which was a full 38% increase over 2019. Don’t Underestimate the Power of Comfort.

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6 Pro Tips for Working From Home

Worxbee

You might be like the large number who report being more productive and find that you enjoy more balance in your life. What if you share a small space and one person needs to talk on the phone while the other needs quiet work time? With technology, it’s easy for people to fling out emails from their phones after hours.

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"Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals

Professional Assistant Blog

They ask you to create subtotals for the latest sales report, but want you to only send them the revised spreadsheet showing the subtotal rows. One of my managers wanted me to use our sales tracking software to create the sales report for a particular product. I was able to put the entire report together within a matter of minutes.

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Need To Create a PDF? Don't Have the Software? Don't Panic!

Professional Assistant Blog

Your manager asks you to create a report of some sort and wants you to send it to a client, but making sure that they cannot manipulate the information. There is a simple way of getting this type of report to anyone without having to use Adobe Acrobat. Now you can e-mail the report to the client without any problems.

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Overworked? Unload Your Workload to a Freelancer!

Professional Assistant Blog

Whether you need help fixing up that company website, proofreading a report that your boss needs right away or even compiling reports that your boss gave you today and is asking for you to complete it yesterday. Hiring a freelancer can have great benefits. Truths of a Shy Writer can help you when you’re in a bind.

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How to Say 'No' at Work

Ian's Messy Desk

When someone fails to provide all the information she needs to do her job, she explains: “I understand that you need this report by tomorrow. One colleague always submitted incomplete information for a monthly report. Don’t answer the phone or e-mail. To do that, I need last month’s sales figures from you.”

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Work From Home? Want to be More Productive?

Professional Assistant Blog

This lessens the time you have to spend on the phone. You can then print a summary report to Excel of all of your hours for any time period, for any task, or for any client. Virtual Assistant Manager is a website that I recently stumbled upon which helps you and/or your organization thrive in this type of environment.

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