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How Hiring Virtual Assistants Can Boost Employee Performance and Work-Life Balance

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Business leaders have a new solution to alleviating employee burnout and helping them create more balance —hiring virtual assistants (VAs) to free up employees’ time and creative energy. For example, the VA is most often in a different time zone than my employee, and my employee is expected to work only during the day.

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Hybrid Work: It’s Not a Revolution, it’s a Revelation

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This article was written by Anna Grayhek , and was originally published on Work Design Magazine. They have become an accepted means of communication, including screen sharing and live editing, rather than marking up and emailing. Especially for organizations with a global footprint, working across multiple time zones.

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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

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Digital nomads travel the world, often packing lightly so that they can easily move on to a new city or country and set up a new base there. If you’re living and working in different countries, with changing time zones, collaborating with colleagues around the world can be difficult. Calendly subscription .

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Usually after the oldest heads to the bus stop, the youngest will bobble downstairs, hair frazzling out in about 40 directions, rubbing sleep out of his eyes with balled-up fists and looking as if he’d ask me for coffee if he wasn’t 5. Here on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, darkness falls around 4:30 p.m.,

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

As they make up such a large portion of the workforce, just a small improvement in their engagement levels could have a significant impact on business performance. Open plan offices must therefore be balanced with spaces for personal rejuvenation where staff can read a magazine, change posture and disconnect.

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The importance of having someone to talk to

Laughing all the Way to Work

I often reach out to my network to get answers to problems that come up at the office or just to lend a sympathetic ear. Read professional magazines when you get the opportunity. IAAP has a magazine that comes with being a member called OfficePro and it has very useful articles. 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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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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