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How to "Marie Kondo" Your Workspace
9/23/2019
Marie Kondo’s rise to fame speaks not only to the usefulness of her KonMari organization method but modern society’s troubling relationship with clutter. While Kondo focuses on the home, our offices are just as disheveled. Here’s how to adapt the KonMari method for your workspace. -
Hi-Ho, It's Back to the Office We Go
10/25/2021
Once you've been told to head back to your workspace, how can you make sure returning to the office is a safe and even enjoyable experience? Read on to learn what steps to take! -
While you're working to make a solid first impression, you may struggle to juggle your work and home lives, but there are ways to start a new job without back-seating family. Read on to see how!
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It's easy to slack off in December, particularly if you're one of those poor souls who used up their PTO by March. When everyone is out of the office and the breakroom is filled with leftover sugar cookies, it's tempting to shop holiday sales and rewatch Netflix Christmas movies on your phone. Be...
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It’s never easy to start a new job—but when you trade water cooler talk and business lunches for the comfort of a work-from-home position, how do you bond with new colleagues and impress your new boss?
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The architect and design sector look like its future may see a huge transformation post pandemic. Let's look at the new or additional skills architects and design professionals will need in a post-pandemic world.
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Top Workplaces are made up of employees who believe in the direction set by senior leadership. If you wonder whether your organization is headed in the right direction, read on to find out!
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It may have only been thirty years ago, but in some ways the 1990s workforce might as well have happened on a different planet. Find out the biggest changes that have occurred between then and now.
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Raise your hand if you like cubicles. What? No one? No big surprise there. Cubicles are the death knell of both privacy and collaboration. They’re the unhappy medium between private offices and open, shared workspaces. So if you want to get on trend and take advantage of the many benefits of col...
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Employees need to bond, even remotely
1/26/2021
Despite its perks, remote work can be isolating. One of the many challenges of managing a remote team is that the typical day-to-day interactions can’t be replicated virtually. -
Are employees ready to return to work?
12/15/2020
When is the right time to bring employees back to the office, and what's the best way to go about it? There’s pressure to move quickly, but the actions you take will have a lasting impact. -
There is no playbook for this. Even veteran telecommuters are thrown by the new corona virus normal. Here are eight tips for coping when you’re suddenly an employee, parent, and teacher all at once.
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How to Stay Focused at Work
2/10/2018
We all know we should stay focused at work, but distractions are an ever-present danger of the modern office. Diversions drain our focus because they are designed to prime our brains. Luckily, understanding a bit about how our brains work is the best tool for learning how to maintain focus on the... -
You have figured out how to work fully remote—but now you are being asked to return to the office a few days a week. How can you connect with your boss in a hybrid environment that tries to keep the best of both worlds?
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You have switched to working remotely or going “hybrid.” Does company culture matter when you are working from home? The answer might surprise you.
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It’s time to dig the blazers out of your closet and head back to the office. What should you expect from your employer and your coworkers in the new hybrid office environment?
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Show employee appreciation, especially now
10/13/2020
None of us expected this pandemic. It has forced businesses and organizations of all kinds to think and adapt quickly. It has spurred us to innovate, iterate, and create. -
Professionally, your 2020 was off to an awesome start. You were on track to achieve your goals and get promoted. ? Is it insensitive to ask for a promotion during a pandemic?
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Working remotely, coupled with government restrictions to isolate people to slow the coronavirus spread, has led many people to develop a condition referred to as quarantine fatigue. Read on to see some of the signs.
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With so much focus right now on keeping yourself and others around you healthy, returning to a “normal” routine seems like a fairytale at this point—but it will happen eventually.