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Time is up for fluorescent lighting, so what happens after the tube strike?

Workplace Insight

Just like the Rolodex, the fax machine and smoking in the office, fluorescent lighting is becoming a thing of the past in the workplace. Many other conditions from epilepsy to autism; chronic fatigue syndrome to vertigo have been associated with their use… Read the rest of this feature in the new issue of IN Magazine.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

“I just do it because—darn it—there are a lot of women [in the world] who don’t have the opportunity to get up in the morning and even get an education, so I can get my butt on a plane and deal with it. I wrote that specifically in my journal, and I just kept looking for when it was going to show up in my life. I’m scared.

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Executives and Assistants are Struggling Today

Office Dynamics

[This article was originally posted at Executive Secretary Magazine.]. Executives and Assistants cannot keep up with the emails that flood their Inbox on a 24/7 basis. There is no greater relationship in the workplace than that of an executive and an Assistant.

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

When the printer/scanner/fax breaks down I am ultimately the person who troubleshoots and fixes the machine in question. We are the ultimate super-jugglers who have the ability to throw a to-do list up in the air and catch it in a different order depending on the situation at hand. Generation Y make up 50% of the current work-force.

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Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Single-Tasking / Multi-Tasking Productive Magazine [link] -- Every few months this PDF magazine is published.    This month's magazine is excellent and all focused on how to get the most work done. Megan Berry offers some great tips for cleaning up those unused apps and making your smartphone more productive.

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Free Yourself From Car Clutter: Five Easy Ways To Keep Your Car.

Stephanie LH Calahan

For travel purposes, you’ll want to beef that list up a bit. A small bag of items takes up less room and produces less clutter than five or six individual items strewn in the back. family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 What is this disorganized place?

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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. I work for a magazine and we hire freelancers for all sorts of reasons. Hiring a freelancer can have great benefits.

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