Work Life

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

According to a recent survey conducted by Let’s Grow Leaders, a global leadership development and consulting company, 71% of Americans report experiencing equal or greater levels of workplace conflict in recent years. She adds that ‘environment,’ can refer to physical, cultural, or mood settings.

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Success

MAY 19, 2024

Trina Swerdlow, mindfulness trainer, artist and author of Stress Reduction Journal: Meditate and Journal Your Way to Better Health , loves having a zafu (meditation cushion) in her home office to sit on.

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Insperity

MAY 15, 2018

If you aren’t sure what your team may need to improve ergonomics in the workplace, ask your office furniture supplier or professional employer organization (PEO) whether they have a specialist on staff. It can be easy to forget about your off-site employees who are either working from their home office or a co-working space.

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

JUNE 1, 2021

The “traditional” Monday through Friday, go into the office, that is. The truth is, that even before the Covid-19 pandemic that sent thousands home to create in-home offices in March 2020, the workplace was already – quite literally – in motion.

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Ruby

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Be sure to consult with your accountant or financial advisor to determine the best course of action for you and your business. Home office expenses With so many people working from home in the past year, you’ll want to closely review the IRS’s rules around home office deductions.

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Success

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The ECHO program is part of Core One , a consultancy that works with government and military organizations to create productive, mission-ready cultures. Her top suggestions: Establish a work-to-home transition: Your workday needs a hard stop—your brain can’t optimize for home or family life if it’s still in work mode.

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Insperity

MAY 7, 2020

If you have a dedicated home office, use it. Otherwise, try to set up your home workspace in a quiet, lower-traffic area that can be closed off and, preferably, locked. You may also want to consider the ability for employees to print work-related documents at home. Establish a secure connection to company systems.

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Launch Work Places

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Q: How do the environments of serviced offices and coworking spaces impact productivity? A: Flexible office solutions, like coworking spaces and serviced office spaces, offer a refreshing break from the home office and all the distractions that come with it.

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Success

MARCH 13, 2023

Consult with an accountant or tax preparer to ensure you get all the deductions you qualify for. So you can’t just go on vacation or buy a new car and claim it as a deductible business expense.

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The Receptionist

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You’ll likely hear the low-level ambient sounds of keyboard typing, paper printing, coffee percolating, water cooler conversations, and faint laughter—all of those sounds that are absent in a home office. Because they’re geared towards enabling productivity, most coworking spaces are set up like traditional offices.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

They also gave me a stipend to outfit my home office with whatever I need to be comfortable, as their offices are closed indefinitely due to covid. When I got news of the furlough, I reached out to my network and three different people connected me with grant consultants who needed subcontractors. I gave my notice 2.5

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

While needful to set up a home office, the enduring principles of how to create employee experience through believing (meaning/purpose), becoming (learning/ growth), and belonging (relationship/community) no matter where employees work to shape a long-term agenda that delivers sustainable results.

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Vantage Circle

APRIL 17, 2020

These concepts reinvent where and how work is done by exploring and requiring working remotely (called working at home, working virtually, telecommuting, etc.). A few years ago, the SOHO (single office, home office) was emerging as a unique place to work. Now, it is a dominant reality for nearly every organization.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 3, 2023

A reader writes: I need your help in reclaiming my home. I am an employee at a small consulting company (my boss plus three employees). We each work from our homes and there is no central office. This post, my boss and coworkers are constantly at my house , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 3, 2022

I work in the office three days a week and usually have two appointments Friday afternoon that I can do from home. On Thursday, I prepared all the necessary documents and took them home so I would have everything I needed for the home office.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A large part of my actual work ended up being supervised by one of our external consultants. The new owners still operate the business, but maintain no actual office in my state. Most current workers are basically working from home offices out in Nevada. Yes, the use of past tense here is telling.)

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Ruby

APRIL 8, 2021

I’ve been told, it helps to have a consultant who’s got some experience. People have told him, “You know, you should make some kind of desk that people can use when they set up their work from home office.” It’s so easy to take that leap down the rabbit hole and spend way more money than you expected. So what should he make now?

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 30, 2014

I was offered a position as a contract Trainer with a consulting firm. The interviewer said they were impressed with my resume and they had been asked by the home office to contact me immediately since they were so interested. They seemed very enthusiastic about me.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If you have 20 years of experience in marketing, consider selling your consulting services. Maybe you should sell packages of smart home tech for any price range? This can be done from your home office but quickly becomes unscalable. This is true if you’re selling tchotchkes or your consulting services.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Unfortunately her handling has been extremely reactive, and she works from home a lot, meaning she is very out of touch with her employees’ experience living with her decisions — reopening without consulting staff to figure out their comfort levels, abruptly changing schedules and job descriptions, and more.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 27, 2015

Please see the letter we sent; I have removed all names for privacy purposes: Thank you for the business invitation to visit you at your home office in. We typically charge for initial consultations and out-of-state or out-of-country meetings. My short answer: We accept the invitation.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 21, 2022

I’ve been working as a consultant with my boss for eight years, full time for five. I work out of my home office, which is clean, neat, and tastefully decorated. This post, my boss wants 6 months notice, quirky backgrounds on video calls, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Here we go….

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The C-suite Executive Assistants are consulted and involved with Interviewing Candidates (Assistants and new Leaders), Creation of revised Job Descriptions, Onboarding, Disaster Planning, Cyber Security, Succession Planning, and Training for the Administrative Staff. Executive Leadership Team.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

–coincidentally enough, the two most politically engaged of the unwilling support staff–were to be assigned to hold down the fort in the home office on election day, just the two of us, and not summoned to the evening event. However, at a subsequent event planning meeting, it was announced that myself and coworker T.–coincidentally

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I work as a consultant, which means that I usually work in the same conference room with my team. When I’m at the home office, this means it’s about 6-8 people in one conference room. So I wanted to let you know that when I’m at the home office, I’m going to work out of the lounge or one of the individual offices.”.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 27, 2017

The trip was for me to meet members of our team that work in the London office and for some additional training in my role, although it would technically be possible for me to have that training in my home office. Every few days they post an article written by one of their consultants.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 6, 2016

I am a designer for a small design consultancy. There are about 25 people in our home office. You get to 100% control the timing of your departure, entirely independent of that. Can I accept a gift from a client? I recently closed a design package with a client who was quite demanding throughout the design process.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 2, 2021

My department has 14 people with similar roles, and we all have this blend of consultations, training, and writing. We all have cubicles — big cubicles to be fair — in two open offices. Since the pandemic began, we’ve done our consultations, training, and writing from home.

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Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Whether an individual prefers to work from a home office or occasionally needs time off for personal commitments like coaching their child's little league team, the flexible culture empowers them to achieve these goals. ” Jodi Davidson, director of D&I initiatives at Sodexo.

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Success

JULY 17, 2021

Are coaches consultants who give advice or cheerleaders who motivate? I have worked with clients from California to Chicago to Texas to Toronto; from India to Australia to Thailand, all from my garden patio and co-working office. That’s part of the resume, but those descriptions fall short. Certified vs. Uncertified Coaches.

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