Category: Office Life
How to Love Your Cubicle
More often than not, things in life are based on your perspective. If you are a wealthy person and you get what you feel is a meagre year-end bonus at work, it may upset you. To another worker who may work on the manufacturing floor at minimum wage, that bonus might beRead More
Work Healthy, Take Breaks
Working in an office all day and sitting at your computer sounds like an easy task. After all, what “actual work” is involved there? No heavy lifting, no running, no back-breaking labor under a hot sun. What is to complain about, right? However, the reality is much different than thatRead More
8 Things Not to Do in the Office
Professionalism calls for self-discipline and abstinence from certain things that are counterproductive for your work environment. A professional astutely gauges his or her responsibilities and maintains high level of loyalty and sincerity towards their workplace. The following list of behavioral patterns will affect your workplace immensely, and therefore, as an office goer,Read More
How to Make the Most of a Small Office Space
To have a happy, productive office, your space must be set up and designed to its greatest potential. A good workplace is something that is efficient and organized, on top of being comfortably work conducive. Having said that, a small office space does not have to mean a limited amount ofRead More
How to Make Your Colleagues Thank You
Thank your colleagues. Every now and then a colleague does something amazing: Saving your sales opportunity with a well-placed phone-call; fixing your malfunctioning operating system; or rewriting your report overnight, making it ten times better, and giving you all the credit. It’s rare, and when it happens, your colleague deservesRead More
How to Go Paperless: 8 Ways
Why should you go paperless? Is it even possible? The short answer, yes but it’s very difficult. With some diligence and flexibility to change your old ways, you can have a pretty big impact. Let’s assume that you’re over the whole ‘go green’ initiative since recycling placates your conscience andRead More
Effects of Information Overload & How to Deal with it
You come into the office and have 30 emails waiting. Keeping your head above water is difficult, as it seems like the minute you answer one, you’ve got a dozen more waiting in its place. You attempt to clean your inbox every evening, only to arrive at the office with it filledRead More
Office Music — Yay or Nay?
There are always two sides to an issue, and listening to music in the office is no different. Although this seems like a somewhat simple problem, I have discovered through my research that employees are constantly complaining about office music rules. If you want to get the legality side ofRead More