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Instead Of Trying To Compete With The Home Office — Work With It

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Consider that rather than trying to compete with the home office, organizations could benefit from embracing and building on it? Competing With the Home Office. Productivity is now the realm of the home, and community is the realm of the workplace. These activities suffer when performed at a distance.

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Design For Human Aspirations To Attract All Generations

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Effective learning and mentoring require physical proximity; remote work can limit these, especially for junior employees, leading to reduced feedback and learning opportunities which impacts organizational competitiveness. Over 60% of the office vacancies are concentrated in 10% of buildings, according to JLL’s 2023 research.

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10 Thoughtful Ways to Thank Your Admin Team

All Things Admin

Assemble a package of bright and cheerful office supplies that can help them do their jobs more effectively at home. Shop online and ship directly to their home office! It may include file folders, spiral notebooks, pens, and sticky notes. Handwritten letter or e-card.

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An Admin’s Guide to Virtual Meeting Etiquette

All Things Admin

People set up home offices and found ways to avoid interruptions. When the world reopened, not everyone decided to go back to the office. In those early days, it wasn’t uncommon to see cluttered backgrounds, spouses trying to sneak through the frame, children interrupting with pleas for snacks, or pets making cameos.

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Five Essential Strategies for Successful Hybrid Leadership

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They can also consider remote social activities like video game sessions or virtual escape rooms. Another effective approach is pairing junior staff with different senior staff as mentors, which has been found to be very effective in expanding the network and building the weak ties of junior staff.

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Are You Charging (and Getting) What You’re Worth?

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This webinar is for you if: You’re a virtual service provider of any type (virtual assistants, virtual paralegals or anyone who provides services from their own home office utilizing technology to get the job done!). Vicki Voisin (the Paralegal Mentor !) The webinar will now be held on August 10 th at 1pm ET.

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Is a post-COVID remote work policy right for you?

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This can be a good way to handle remote work when some departments or job roles cannot work remotely due to their job responsibilities, but others have roles that can be completed successfully from home. If employees have successfully maintained productivity while working from their home offices for the past two years, the answer may be no.