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3 S’s of cubicle etiquette: How to thrive in close quarters

Insperity

In an era when the corner office has gone the way of the dodo bird, cubicle etiquette has become a hot topic. Whether your business uses partitioned cubicles or wide-open workspaces and shared desks, chances are your employees have only a small area they can call their own. That’s where a cubicle etiquette policy becomes essential.

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8 office etiquette expectations that are now history

Insperity

Spontaneous meetings at cubicles are normal Remember how team members used to surprise their colleagues with a cubicle visit to discuss a project or ask a question? It was no big deal to just swing by someone’s cubicle and chat for a bit, right? Gently remind employees about loud music and pungent food smells, for example.

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Ron Finley, the Self-Proclaimed Gangsta Gardener, Found Purpose Fighting Food Poverty in South LA

Success

while passersby dutifully commute to their cubicles, Finley heads to his garden and asks an inconspicuously complex question: “Why not slow down and live your joy?” It’s freedom from depending on a store, a delivery app, a broken food system. instead has an abundance of fast food chains and dialysis centers. And so, at 8 a.m.,

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How Millbrook Companies Reinvented the In-Office Experience for Employees

Success

Instead of finding a traditional office building as its headquarters, with cubicles, watercoolers, boardrooms and corner offices, Millbrook’s leaders went on a mission to find the perfect space to encapsulate what hybrid work really means. For instance, employees’ dogs are welcome in Millbrook. So are sweatpants.

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Workspace planning: 5 new insights from industry experts

Office Space

Checks in visitors, packages, and food deliveries and instantly notifies employees. Each office is going to require its one unique mix of conference rooms and collaborative workspaces , private offices, open spaces, cubicles, and other types of workstations and cubicles. Watch it here. There is no one perfect workspace.

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updates: banning trash cans unless we sign a pledge never to put food in them, and more

Ask a Manager

Banning trash cans unless we sign a pledge never to put food in them. ” Bill became very serious and said “You can only have one if you PROMISE that you will never put food in it. And if I ever find food in there, I will take the trash can back forever.” The meeting was held in his office. I need one.”

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The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Menstrual Health at Work

Success

“It doesn’t say that those levels are higher than a variety of different regulatory thresholds, whether we’re talking about drinking water—tap water and bottled water are higher than the levels in these tampons—or food items or other textiles made from cotton.”

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