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The Post Office Expanding Use of Contingent Workers

Small Business Labs

Postal Service in the Wall Street Journal. Twenty percent of all our employees today are 'noncareer flexibles' [part-time], up from about 8% two years ago.   The driver behind this is labor costs are 80% of the postal service's total costs. . Interesting interview with the head of the U.S.

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Adhering to the "Open Door" Policy

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Adhering to the "Open Door" Policy By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Prioritize I n my last job, I had my own office. If it was my boss that showed up, well, that’s a different story. If it was my boss that showed up, well, that’s a different story.

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Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween

Professional Assistant Blog

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. Your company may have a strict policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number. Who are you?

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

One day she just up and quit. it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. One of the biggest issues surrounding substance abuse in the workplace are the lies required to keep up the front that everything is ok. in my experience. " Warning!

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Cubicle Etiquette 101

Professional Assistant Blog

If you need to warm up your lunch, please try to keep it in the lunch room. Its up to the individual to analyze this culture in addition to the individual relationships around them. The constant noise from that drives me up a wall. In the mean time Im going to discretely tape up a copy of your etiquette rules somewhere public.

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