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The Importance of Proactive Housekeeping in Office Management: A Key to Success

The Office Management Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In this dynamic world of office management, the smallest details can make the biggest difference. In my latest blog, we’ll delve into why proactive housekeeping is essential and how it can elevate your role as an office manager. This visibility can enhance your reputation among colleagues and senior management.

Office Management

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What to think about with Start-Ups as an Office Manager

The Office Management Group

APRIL 29, 2024

Let’s go to Health and Safety for this one first: As soon as you hit five or more employees you must have written procedures for health and safety such as a general workplace risk assessment and health and safety policy, taking into account the risks of your business from day to day working in the office, and / or at home, to travel and driving.

Office Management

Office Management Insurance Maintenance Onboarding

Evacuation Drills – does anyone actually take them seriously?

The Office Management Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

During my time as an Office Manager, I’ve seen (oddly) many types of evacuation scenarios from fires or false alarms which are pretty typical to flooding (from a ceiling!) What you can control, however is being in the know of how to get out quickly and safely if something does happen.

Banking

Banking Insurance Controlling Legal

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3 Tech Tools No HR Department Should Be Without

Insperity

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Let’s take a look at three key technology systems that, when working in unison, can help you go from feeling like an office manager to finally feeling like the HR director. On the flip side, with an automated time system you can enforce overtime controls. Payroll software.

Payroll

Payroll Software Construction Reporting

Tips to Increase Visitor Safety in Your Chiropractic Office

The Receptionist

MARCH 6, 2023

Visitor safety has always been a concern for office managers, but it has become an even more important issue now that incidents of workplace violence are increasing. That’s not reassuring news when you run a chiropractic office. You can handle the necessary “paperwork” digitally through your visitor management system.

Security

Security Computer Software Legal

3 Tech Tools No HR Department Should Be Without

Insperity

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Let’s take a look at three key technology systems that, when working in unison, can help you go from feeling like an office manager to finally feeling like the HR director. On the flip side, with an automated time system you can enforce overtime controls. Payroll software.

Payroll

Payroll Software Planning Construction

getting a friend fired, employer is controlling workers’ LinkedIn accounts, and more

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 7, 2015

Employer set up LinkedIn accounts for everyone and won’t release control of them. He asked the current office manager how to get access to his account, and she said she had no idea what happened to the information (she was not the person who set this up back in the day) for everyone’s logins and couldn’t help him.

Controlling

Controlling Advertising Sales Purchasing

another company keeps opening our mail and possibly stealing it

Ask a Manager

JULY 20, 2015

A reader writes: I am an office manager and am responsible for distributing the mail at my office. The mail in my office building is delivered inconsistently (different mail carriers, inconsistent delivery times, delivered to the wrong office suite, etc.). Also, she has never brought it over personally.

Mailing

Mailing Problem-Solving Legal Office Management

Serviced Office vs Coworking Space: Which Option is Right For You?

Launch Work Places

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a serviced office, the service and support elements are still foundational, meaning you’ve got an on-site team that handles office management. On the other hand, serviced office spaces are more private and have fewer communal spaces, so there are fewer opportunities to network and connect outside of your team or company.

Flexibility

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I got in trouble for wearing work-out clothes around the office, throwing up at work, and more

Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I leave the office every day to jog during my lunch break. I am required by my office to take an hour lunch, at a designated time slot specified by the office manager. I was in my jogging gear for 10 minutes in the office before I left the building. Like, legally? And it is an unpaid hour.

Mailing

Mailing Promotion Office Management Legal

employer altered my LinkedIn profile, gifts for Admin Professionals Day, and more

Ask a Manager

APRIL 8, 2015

I got in touch with the office manager at my old job. Regardless of the reason, is this behavior legal? Re-take control of the account (contacting LinkedIn for help if you need to) and ensure they don’t have access to your profile anymore. I can’t think of any other plausible reason for this.

Administrative Assistance

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my coworker complained about my burping and farting, my manager gave away my project, and more

Ask a Manager

JUNE 29, 2016

If you truly can’t control it, you can’t control it. It’s similar to if you had a constant cough or nose-sniffling problem; it’s out of your control, but you’d probably still try to be thoughtful about how it impacted others, to the extent that you could. My manager gave a project I’d been promised to a more senior coworker.

Cubicle

Cubicle Problem-Solving Legal Controlling

I overheard a horrible fight on a web conference, the missing chocolate egg, and more

Ask a Manager

APRIL 14, 2020

It was all pretty alarming (maybe made worse by memories of these kind of fights in my family of origin that usually spiraled out of control and got physical). I was an office manager for a small company that shut down mid-March due to COVID-19. Is this legal? My boss laid me off but wants me to keep working.

Legal

Legal Mailing Payroll Insurance

I don’t want to recommend my dad for a job, refusing to train coworkers, and more

Ask a Manager

MARCH 5, 2015

My office is currently in the process of hiring a new office manager. My associate dean subscribes to the idea that everyone in the office should be involved in the interviews and then provide written feedback. The right legally? My boss is insisting that all interview feedback on candidates be in writing.

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getting a friend fired, employer is controlling workers’ LinkedIn accounts, and more

another company keeps opening our mail and possibly stealing it

Serviced Office vs Coworking Space: Which Option is Right For You?

I got in trouble for wearing work-out clothes around the office, throwing up at work, and more

employer altered my LinkedIn profile, gifts for Admin Professionals Day, and more

my coworker complained about my burping and farting, my manager gave away my project, and more

I overheard a horrible fight on a web conference, the missing chocolate egg, and more

I don’t want to recommend my dad for a job, refusing to train coworkers, and more

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