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Is hot desking right for your business? 5 questions to consider

Insperity

For instance, a private room may be set aside for which staff can schedule time for private phone calls or consultations. At the same time, many employers in creative fields like tech, advertising and public relations have come to believe hot desking helps spark innovation.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. If you have 20 years of experience in marketing, consider selling your consulting services. This is true if you’re selling tchotchkes or your consulting services.

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the $15,000 coffee fund, the cheapskate executives, and other stories of office coffee wars

Ask a Manager

It was always advertised as a this-month-only thing, but the same promotion was renewed for May 2021, June 2021, and so on, all the way until December 2022. It was a genuine concern that the tea urn would empty too quickly if larger mugs were permitted, leading to a lengthy consultation period on the optimal mug size.

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coworkers’ kids are noisy at work, SAT scores in a cover letter, and more

Ask a Manager

The problem for me is, two of these kids are usually set up in the empty cubicle next to mine. The exception to this is if you’re applying in a very small number of fields that actually consider them still relevant (some segments of finance and consulting, but even then generally only if you’re a student or a recent grad).

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employee threatens to sue us when we tell her to save work files, I don’t want to put up holiday decorations, and more

Ask a Manager

I find the abundance of Christmas lights, and decorations, and sales, and advertisements, and everything that pops up as soon as Thanksgiving is over… exhausting. All that aside, we’re a public library, not a religious institution or a store with holiday sales to advertise. I’m their main point of contact at my job.