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Stay on Track for Productivity

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How to stay focused while working from home We asked working-from-home experts and entrepreneurs to discuss common problems and solutions. A huge time-suck for home-based workers and entrepreneurs is checking and responding to emails. More time-wasters: social media and web-surfing. Rearrange your home office.

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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

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Surrounding yourself with others hard at work creates the right conditions for focus, reducing the inclination to check emails and go on social media. Could working from home have a direct link to triggering procrastination? The benefits of coworker accountability are tremendous.

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How Workplace Design Can Help Attract Gen Z

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Due to these traits, the internet, and social media, Gen Z has access to a wealth of knowledge on diverse working styles, office layouts, and workplace amenities. Highly interconnected – grown up with the knowledge that they can communicate with anyone in the world at a moment’s notice through social media.

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12 Gift Ideas Under $50 For Everyone On Your List

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From tech and food surprises to beloved travel products and home goods, these $50 and under gifts will help you get your holiday shopping done so you can enjoy more of the holiday season with (slightly) less stress. 12 gift ideas that are $50 and less 1. JBL Clip 3 Wireless Speaker $39.95 These candles are hand-poured in the U.S.,

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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

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If you’re browsing social media or checking emails, that’s not mental recovery—that’s like trying to rest your muscles by doing pushups in between bench presses. Her top suggestions: Establish a work-to-home transition: Your workday needs a hard stop—your brain can’t optimize for home or family life if it’s still in work mode.

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Five Essential Strategies for Successful Hybrid Leadership

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This heightened stress level, primarily, comes from the task of implementing company policies on hybrid work and the return to office. The remainder is spent on non-work activities like checking social media, browsing news websites, chatting with colleagues about non-work topics, making personal calls, and even job hunting.

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5 Tips for Dealing with Personal Crisis as a Small Business Owner

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I was living hundreds of miles away, took a handful of days off to travel back but was able to compartmentalize my grief, especially once I got back to my own home office in North Carolina. My wonderful clients all responded the same way, stressing that I needed to walk away from the business and deal with my loss.