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

Workplace Insight

It certainly raises the question of what more can be done, including in terms of workplace design, to boost engagement levels amongst these employees. Key findings from the global workplace design report include: Employee engagement positively correlates with workplace satisfaction. Traditional work styles persist.

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

Success

Business leaders, then, must think about whether their workplaces are conducive to employee happiness and health. The first step might be asking your own team what tasks are considered time-sucking for them; that is, tasks that take away from your team’s ability to focus on larger, more specialized projects.

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Chris McAlister – Founder of SightShift | Keys to Impactful Leadership Across Generations

Allwork

Then you’re going to get your phone for the week. Thinking of the teenager example, if your room isn’t cleaned by Saturday at noon, you don’t get your phone for the week. I don’t have to have the phone agreement to clean my room because I want to live in a clean room. And it might be a simple system.

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Common Courtesy in the Workplace

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Common Courtesy in the Workplace By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 10, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you always end up cleaning up after your colleagues? Do you neatly put all labels, papers, etc. on the printer table and then a few minutes later, you come back to a messy area?

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Daan van Rossum – CEO at FlexOS | Flex Work: The Key to Career Freedom.

Allwork

Frank Cottle 00:02:39 ]: Okay, basically let’s say that it’s a half and half show between remote work, working from your home, or I’ll say a third workplace, and I’ll add to your spectrum a little bit. So a third workplace for other people. They don’t want to take the time. I had to stay late.

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Management Practices That Make Employees Quit

On The Job

That means that top performers may quickly make an exit from bosses who make the workplace miserable – or even slightly unpleasant. You make them answer emails or phone calls at night and on weekends. You don’t think they need a day off after they’ve returned exhausted from business travel across different time zones.

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Tech Choices for the On-the-Road Office

Office Dynamics

Many businesses work with colleagues and clients in different time zones, so they may need to work non-traditional hours to communicate with people across the world. It includes a protection plan that delivers a new phone if the original one is damaged within the first 12 months of ownership. Is this obsessive? In the U.S.,

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