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The average day off includes about two and a half hours of work

Workplace Insight

The survey found that the average Brit will spend up to two-and-a-half hours working while technically having a day off on holiday or leave. In this case, being “off” but working anyway includes annual leave, weekends and bank holidays, whether they are spent in the UK or abroad.

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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

Allwork

Whether you’re looking for a holiday gift, a birthday gift, or just something special to show your love and appreciation, we’ve got you covered. Posting jobs in over 50 different categories from entry-level to executive level, this may be the perfect holiday gift for a digital nomad. . Calendly subscription . Travel adaptor .

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Top Gifts You Can Give Your Remote Team for the Holidays

Bonnie Low Kramen

The bottom line: 2020 has been a year like no other and the holidays will look very different too. So, with the holiday season just right around the corner, employers and managers can make full use of this occasion to show employees that they are more than just names and numbers on a payroll sheet. Remote work is lonely.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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Tweets Not All Sweet on Black Friday

Customers Rock!

Social media has brought the customer experience more in-focus than ever before, and this became very apparent during the start of the 2010 holiday shopping season on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The brave ones, armed with their mobile phones, made the trek into the brick-and-mortar retail stores to fight the crowds for their coveted items.

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Critical Considerations When Jumping to a Small Employer

On The Job

If you've ever worked for a big company, you know the advantages: everything from a comprehensive employee benefits package to a great holiday party every year. But hold the phone -- jumping from a "battleship to a fishing boat" as one small business owner put it may not be that easy.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

Most recruiters work long hours and will be on their phones a lot, but our shift was to focus on outputs not inputs, we’re so conditioned to focus on time spent and this is the wrong metric. Instead, look at the results.”. As one of his members of staff commented: “It’s about choice.

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