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Debrett’s unveils etiquette guide for hybrid working

Workplace Insight

No meeting multitasking: It’s inappropriate to multitask during meetings – for example looking at your phone. It is also very bad form to carry on working while on a call; everybody will realise your mind is elsewhere and hear the incriminating clatter of your keyboard. Nobody will applaud your stoicism.

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To Produce, Consume, or Just Leave My Phone in My Pocket

Productivityist

Then Kelly and Ferriss agreed on something I hadn’t thought of, their phones are poor input devices. It isn’t easy to produce something on our phones, so why focus on it when you can do better work someplace else? Okay, so using my phone as an input device didn’t work – but that was only one side to the coin.

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Energy-Saving Software for Your Eco-Office

Eco-Office Gals

For example, there are tons of software solutions that save you time and money. These options are certainly quicker and less costly than managing everything through phone calls and snail mail. For example, it won’t auto shut down every computer at 6pm just because that’s when the office closes.

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Technology to help with minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

This was before we had apps or smart phones or the rise in technology that we have seen over the years. More recently I’ve heard from assistants that have tried a few different apps and bits of tech which have really helped with their minute taking so I thought I would give a few examples of what is out there. Beesy - £3.99.

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How to remember those random requests

Practically Perfect PA

Similarly I have a large A4 desk pad next to my keyboard for any quick notes I need to make, things to remember (like phone numbers for instance), and tasks people give me at my desk. If my manager has asked me to do something small I usually do it immediately – for example, printing or photocopying something.

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Help Desk

Practically Perfect PA

In addition to that as part of our role we are always at one piece of equipment or the other and it is a massive time saver if for example the printer is near our desk. The phone should be on the desk as near to your keyboard and computer screen as possible. I wasn’t that silly for long! I wasn’t that silly for long!

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Could You Telecommute From Italy?

On The Job

Or cleaning out my keyboard that has become gummed up with peanut butter (the hazards of eating at your desk.) His productivity increased, and he kept in touch via email, phone and teleconferencing. For example, he worked 2 to 11 p.m. Sometimes the highlight of my day is meeting the new UPS driver. EST. • Set a departure date.