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This week’s guest posts focus on the risks of eating at your desk, just how much time you spend checking email and a full breakdown of the most thankless jobs. [Read more...]
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Baydin, the team behind the Boomerang email plugin, released an infographic that sheds light on the best words to use if you want to maximize email responses. [Read more...]
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Work email answered after employees’ shifts can qualify for overtime pay, according to a law passed in Brazil last month. [Read more...]
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Luis Suarez of IBM has essentially sworn off email since February 2008, opting instead to use social media to communicate with colleagues. [Read more...]
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers employees who choose to work on the weekends will encounter a fascinating aspect of the company’s email policy: a gentle reminder not to burden your colleagues with messages. [Read more...]
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Ridiculously Efficient readers are familiar with efficiency strategies like working in spurts, leveraging Parkinson’s Law and managing decision fatigue; this list of unconventional productivity strategies shares novel ideas to boost effectiveness. [Read more...]
Volkswagen Germany's email policies hope to protect work-life balance. (CC) D. Vincent Alongi/Flickr
Volkswagen is fighting the good fight in work-life balance by stopping its BlackBerry servers from delivering email to employees after regular work hours. [Read more...]
