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How to Plan Events Your Team Will Love (Without the Stress)

Eat Your Career

This is a guest post contributed by Eleanor Whitney, editor of All Hands , a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. The benefits of team events are well known. They facilitate interaction between teams, build relationships and empathy between coworkers, and amp up employee engagement. Stay organized.

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Flexible working is delivering the gift of seasonal productivity

Workplace Insight

However, business leaders are still keen to maintain productivity amidst the seasonal rush while allowing their team to enjoy the holiday period. To overcome this bias, managers need to value input from remote team members equally and recognise the unique perspectives they bring to the table.

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Campaigners encourage firms to explore four-day Week with ‘4ugust’ initiative

Workplace Insight

The study, conducted by Boston College (USA) and sociologists from University College Dublin, claims that project managers and chief executives overwhelmingly perceived several benefits from the shorter workweek. The key to achieving this lies in eliminating or reducing activities of questionable value.

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Rethinking Work Perks: 5 Things Employees Want More Than ‘Fun’ At Work

Success

Penelope Cline, a project manager, HR manager and talent scout, loves the quarterly home office stipend provided by her company, which allows employees to purchase items they get to keep or to use the funds for external workspaces such as WeWork or Selina.

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EA to Project Support Manager

Practically Perfect PA

Back in April 2011 I started as a team assistant to an office of 25 people but as time went on I started to get involved in finance, human resources and marketing along with the office management. Project management skills were always at the forefront and something I have strongly built on and now very interested in specialising in.

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Some People see Roadblocks -- Others see Hurdles.

Laughing all the Way to Work

There is usually an answer if you look for it or speak to others on your team or in your network of acquaintances. Sometimes deadlines are exaggerated and if you talk to your boss you may find that the real deadline is further out, but if it cant be moved, why not look to your team members for help? Excellent material! 411 Look Up 411.ca

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10 Tips on Taking a Vacation (and Derek DelGaudio)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

We also got 2 floating/personal holidays, about 3-10 sick days, and also working in the entertainment industry, most places shut down for the last 10-14 days of the year. We also get most bank holidays, half day or early closure before a long weekend, and some companies close early on Fridays during the summer at 2pm or 3pm.

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