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hiccups in a meeting, hybrid work but no equipment for home offices, and more

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Now people are going to need to bring their work from home monitor/chair set-ups to put back in the office, but they’re not going to have work materials for their remote days. Especially if they’d rather have people back in the office full-time, I don’t think you’re going to have much luck pushing back on that part.

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update: will it hurt my chances of getting hired if I can only do video interviews?

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We were also allowed to take literally anything we wanted from the office, just as long as we notified the office manager; I took a monitor and a few cables (plus several office plants) but I had coworkers who took literally everything, including the office chair. It was brilliant.

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can my employer make me wear a bra, my husband’s band doesn’t want to play my coworker’s wedding, and more

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I cannot sit comfortably in an office chair unless I have one foot tucked up under me. I’ve never had any complaints about my professionalism at work (that I’m aware of!), but my new role working directly for the owner of a firm with billable hours and client meetings has me questioning myself.

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17 Surefire Ways to Boost Employee Wellbeing

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If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death.” are two miles are less, making biking a viable transportation option in most instances.