Success

JULY 21, 2024

Alternate ways of making a living The pandemic ushered in a new era of work , far from the cubicle and tediously long workdays. Corporate loyalty is a thing of the past (in both directions),” adds Robert Longley , a business consultant in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. The days of 30 years and a pension are gone.

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Insperity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

For example, when faced with this situation, a manager I knew consulted with the entire group and then implemented two 10-15 minute breaks a day, one mid-morning and another mid-afternoon. In offices with cubicles, a red flag can be used to indicate “do not disturb.”. Bring the group together to discuss what can be done.

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Success

APRIL 6, 2023

After experiencing an unparalleled shift in many corporate jobs from cubicle life to couch adjacent (via the pandemic), some employees realized they wanted to make this work-from-home situation permanent. Many also began considering leaving corporate life altogether and becoming self-employed.

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Success

MAY 29, 2022

But do you reach past your office doors or cubicle boundaries to see your co-workers at 5 o’clock happy hour or a weekend baseball game? Grant Gordon, Solomon Consulting Group. You work with these people eight hours a day, five days a week. Would you go so far as to call your fellow employees friends?

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Insperity

JUNE 13, 2019

For instance, a private room may be set aside for which staff can schedule time for private phone calls or consultations. A row of lockers, for example, can provide a sense of privacy similar to a private drawer or overhead storage space in a cubicle. It’s smart to ensure employees have a secure, on-site place to store personal items.

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Success

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The issue is so pervasive that Laura Crandall, author and founder of a management consulting firm, wrote Working with Humans: Tools You Didn’t Know You Needed for Conversations You Never Expected to Have to help others learn how to work with annoying people.

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Cubicle Consulting Reporting Communication 111

Insperity

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Hewlett-Packard had a case of a Christian employee who posted anti-gay passages in his cubicle. Stay on top of new rulings, whether through e-mail blasts or consultants and attorneys. While you can’t discriminate against an employee for religious beliefs, you don’t have to permit them to promote their religion. Bottom line?

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Success

JUNE 1, 2023

For anyone who’s ever “luxuriated” in a cubicle in flyover country, life in Paris (even with Emily’s dramatics) and working abroad in general starts to look #perfect. Matthew then formed an LLC and started down a new path of offering his services in a consulting capacity. often yields its own set of challenges.

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Cubicle Finance Consulting Communication 98

Workplace Insight

JANUARY 12, 2023

Its history lies with the German consulting firm Quickborner. Although he came to be known as the father of all those cubicle farms that dominated US office life in the late 20th Century, and still do to a lesser extent, he was driven by some of the same principles as the Schelle brothers.

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Imagine a workspace that transcends the confines of cubicles. IDEO IDEO is a design consulting firm known for its human-centered design approach and collaborative culture. A place where people passionately build the future together because they love what they get to do every day.

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Creativity Problem-Solving Teamwork Flexibility 111

WellSteps

AUGUST 31, 2023

Stretching Spaces : If possible, designate areas where employees can stretch and engage in simple exercises, even while sitting at their desks or cubicles. Corporate wellness consultants, such as WellSteps, are skilled at identifying and addressing specific health and wellness challenges within your company.

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Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

We would all love to quit our 9-5 to open our bar or bakery or consulting gig so we can do what we love all day. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners. The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore.

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Success

AUGUST 10, 2021

How it works : Global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Option 4 : Sticking to the cubicle until your business income matches your salary means your lifestyle wouldn’t suffer at all. This is a complicated challenge because there are many potential causes and solutions. Naturally, its people have to be exceptional problem solvers.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 23, 2021

Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant. So, here is our list of funny work quotes that are so hilarious that it deserves a place on your cubicle. . ~ Michel Tournier. Scott Adams. Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Scott Adams. Phil Pastoret. Rita Rudner.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

If you’re working on saving enough for a dream vacation–and resisting buying lunch out every day–tape a beach photo to your cubicle wall. Robin Sharma, leadership consultant and author, calls this the “90-90-1 Rule.” Putting your passion projects in front of your own face every day keeps them from slipping into the daily grind.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

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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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Should consultants charge for travel time? Some consultants have a standard travel time charge, broken out as explicitly that (by the exact numbers of hours, or by the half day or full day) and others roll it into the overall fee they charge for that project/that client. I thought it was odd, but it didn’t bother me.

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

JUNE 19, 2024

In an office setting, the administrative professionals were in a communal space of cubicles, while executives were in offices around the perimeter. Kevin: I currently work with Nish Parikh, CEO & Co-Founder of Rangam Consultants. She specifically said, in disbelief, “I was expecting a woman” when I introduced myself.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 28, 2023

He now has his own consultancy, runs an annual conference with his wife Maggie is a visiting fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and is a sought after speaker and commentator in the media and events worldwide. “But It’s back to the cubicle except it’s a Perspex box rather than a partitioned box. “So, I think the staff liked it.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 19, 2022

My first real job was at a small consulting firm where everyone other than me had 20 or more years of experience. The woman who sits near me, with an empty cubicle in between us, bought tons of soda and junk food from Costco and sold it during the challenge, with the proceeds going to the charity. – 2018.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 31, 2020

I have flexible hours to work on my master’s and eventually CPA, my own office (no more hot-desking or cubicles!) Without exaggeration, massive: this is the type of assignment I would normally hire a consultant for, and was easily 12 hours worth of work to do properly. I’ll be supervising junior staff soon.

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Workplace Psychology

AUGUST 22, 2015

Indeed, one disadvantage of telecommuting is that you have no “tech support,” at least not in the sense of physically running down the hall to the IT department and asking the IT folks for help or calling them on the phone and have them come to your cubicle 30 minutes later to correct a problem with your laptop. 2012, March). Dishman, L.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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. And along the cubicle corridor she would sail, distributing a mug of coffee and a milk jug to the three people who happened to be in her good books that particular day.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Not that she’d ever consult one, since she is COMPLETELY PERFECT. A few weeks ago, she came to my cubicle in a flood of tears with the news that her adored sister is “selfishly” moving across the country to live closer to her children. At the time I was hired, Wanda was going through some rough times.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

“I wore a backless shirt to an internship at a political consulting firm in college. “I used to wear knee-high stockings and if my feet got too sweaty (yes, gross), I would take them off in my cube, wash them in the office restroom, and hang them to dry on my cubicle wall. Never mind! :)” 2. What was I thinking?

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 22, 2022

We share an open cubicle farm space in an open office, meaning our “conversations” can be heard by the whole office. ” (For context, my degree is in Economics and I’m applying mainly for consulting opportunities.).

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In fact, I’m in the corner of a large open room with a private cubicle and not much foot traffic. I had heard that management hired a consultant for my old manager to learn to be a better leader. All I can say is that I hope they didn’t spend too much money on that consultant. It’s lovely and quiet.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

If you want to speak up, though, there’s no reason you couldn’t lean around his cubicle and say, “I’ve been hearing that noise a lot and it’s driving me crazy. But lots of people do rude or inconsiderate things at work that they shouldn’t do. Would you mind doing that in the bathroom?”.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Our office “Nosey Rosey” has recently been going into peoples cubicles/offices when they aren’t around. No, that’s not normal or okay. To determine which it is, you could ask your manager about how to respond if a customer makes threats or has a weapon, and see what they say. Coworker takes things from other people’s offices (for work).

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Ask a Manager

JULY 6, 2020

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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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 23, 2021

However, I don’t think you need to be a business consultant to know that six people are not enough to manage nearly 200 employees. I work in a cubicle farm in sales. My mother (the CEO) insists that we are able to manage all aspects of the business with six dedicated administrative employees, including me. – 2016.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not that she’d ever consult one, since she is COMPLETELY PERFECT. A few weeks ago, she came to my cubicle in a flood of tears with the news that her adored sister is “selfishly” moving across the country to live closer to her children. At the time I was hired, Wanda was going through some rough times.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 4, 2019

Perpetua is to my right and boss is behind a cubicle wall to my left, so they can’t really hear each other and neither will use the phone/get up to go to the other’s desk.). But it’s perfectly fine to consult your notes. 3) Listening to music or podcasts while I work helps me concentrate. (4)

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 3, 2018

Five months ago, I started working at one of the best consultancy companies there is. My supervisors’ solutions were a few space heaters peppered throughout the cubicles, but they are effectively useless. Talk to your boss to make sure that you’ll be back to the same eligibility as everyone else next year.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 2, 2021

This post, we’re being put back in cubicles even though we’re more productive in private offices , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. My department has 14 people with similar roles, and we all have this blend of consultations, training, and writing. I’m not here to defend cubicles.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

She’s talking about decorating the library space, not personal offices or cubicles. Should I send my highly valued consultant a holiday gift? I’ve been working with an amazing consultant this past year. This consultant has been phenomenal and I thoroughly enjoy working with them. We work closely together.

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Fellow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Software is the primary way that remote teams connect with one another—not a face-to-face meeting, not high-fives, and certainly not cubicle chatter.” – Joey Price, CEO of Jumpstart:HR. First things first—before we jump into the best software for remote teams, let’s quickly cover why having the right software in place is so important.

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