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Get Lost Doing What You Love: 5 Tips for Entering a Flow State
Have you ever gotten lost in your work? Did you “wake up” an hour or two later, more productive than ever, almost as if you were sent into a trance (albeit a controlled one)? Yeah, that’s a flow state. But what exactly is flow? And why is it important? Is it just a state we enter as a result of doin...
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How to Motivate Employees - Tips to Keep Your Team Motivated
Whether you own a company or manage a team, keeping employees motivated is essential. Having motivated employees improves company culture and employee morale – not to mention, motivated employees are more likely to achieve company objectives.Motivated employees also tend to stay at a job for longer ...
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Working Remotely: Being Productive While Working From Home
At this point, it’s been well over a year since the pandemic hit, which led to office closures and social restrictions. It has led to a reassessment of the future of work, and the future of office space. According to statistics, 20 percent of employed Americans occasionally worked from home before t...
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Overworking: 9 Signs You're Working Too Much
There are 168 hours in the seven-day week, but for our purposes here, we’re focusing on work. So let’s consider the 120 hours in the five-day business week. Assuming you are between the ages of 18 to 60, experts from the World Health Organization recommend you get more than seven hours of sleep per ...
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Woman Who Has Worked at Drillards for 74 Years Finally Retires - Without Having Missed a Single Day
They say that if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life.That is exactly how Melba Mebane felt every day when she went to her job in the cosmetology department at Dillard’s. The store opened daily at 10 AM, so Melba made sure to show up by 9:15 to secure her parking spot and get...
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Restaurant Owner Hands Her Employees a Bag Each - They Are Taken Aback by What They Find Inside
Most people don’t quit their jobs, they quit their bosses. So when you find a great boss at a job you love, odds are you’re going to stick it out no matter what. Well, after reading about this employer in Massachusetts, we have a feeling she’ll be retaining many of her employees in the years to come...
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6 Need-to-Know Tips About Working Remotely
Thanks to the development of innovative technologies over the years, workers now have the ability to work from any location where they have an internet connection. Working from a remote location can instill you with a sense of freedom and improve your morale with regards to your job. Yet at the same...
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Amazing Boss Defends Employee Against Twitter Troll Who Tried To Get Her Fired
When a boss got an email pleading for an employee to be fired over a Twitter spat, he did something extraordinary -- he took his employee's side.Emotions running hotWhen a customer has a problem with an employee, the usual thing to do is to ask to speak to a manager. Sometimes the manager discipline...
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Woman Asks To Work Less Due To COVID, Boss Has The Most Impressive Response
A Siemens software manager is being praised online for refusing to cut a female employee's hours. Instead of agreeing to cut her pay so she could help her kids with remote learning, her boss said she could work less for the same pay, sending a message to businesses everywhere about supporting women ...
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Employee Sends After-Hours Email, CEO Has The Most Impressive Response
A CEO understands the value of work-life balance and prohibits employees from sending emails after work hours unless it's an emergency.CEO understands the need for limitsFor many of us, COVID-19 has brought work home. The line between job and life has been blurred with remote work and it's easy to f...
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Employee Exposes Abusive Manager And Receives Unexpected Support
One female employee working at Woolworths in Australia took to Twitter to expose an abusive manager. According to her, she texted her supervisor prior to her shift to say that she couldn't make it in. The employee said that she tried calling the store, but there was no answer.The supervisor's reply ...
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Manager Forces 8-Month Pregnant Employees To Tuck In Shirt, Shocked Customers Intervene
A couple of employees were told by a manager that no exceptions would be made to the uniform policy, despite the fact that they were eight months pregnant. So the employees complied, only for the manager to be yelled at by his boss and fired shortly thereafter.The manager was 'clueless'In a Reddit p...
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Influencer CEO Defies All Expectations By Sharing Profits With Employees Instead Of Paying Herself
We always hear pushback about raising the minimum wage, but the story of this store owner in Los Angeles proves how unfair the current system really is.She walks the walkMadeline Pendleton is a popular Gen Z influencer who owns a clothing line that focuses on size inclusivity, sustainability, and ec...
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What You Should Know About Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Many of us spend most of our waking lives at work, meaning that we likely see our colleagues more than we do our own families. Because of this, workplace culture matters a great deal, especially when it comes to our overall mental state. The environment in which you spend all of those hours can cont...
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How to Find Your Passion
"Choose a job you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life." It's an old saying, one that seems straightforward enough. What it means is that if you find a career that you’re passionate about, “going to work” each day won't feel like the same way it used to. It might actually be fun!To...
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Pregnant Woman Is Unable to Take Maternity Leave - Then, Her Manager Tells Her a Lie to Bring Her Into Work
*Featured image contains photo by Matilda Wormwood and cottonbro studios.Some countries, including Canada, often boast that maternity leave is accessible for everyone for at least a year.However, what they don’t say is that many women are the sole earners for their family and rely on their entire in...
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Boss Hands an Envelope to Each Employee Gathered at Company Holiday Party - No One Could Have Guessed What It Contained
Everyone knows that at the end of every calendar year reigns the holiday season filled with wonderment and feel-good energy for family and friends.The season of giving also happened to not be missed by one real estate company who gave their employees a gift of a lifetime -- a $10 million bonus to sh...
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