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5 Warnings Signs That You’re About To Be Fired

Allwork

Shifts in company culture, exclusion from key meetings, increased workplace gossip, and changes in managerial attitudes can indicate looming job risks. If you notice significant drops in revenue, profit warnings, or rounds of cost-cutting measures, it might be time to brace yourself. Employees often discuss potential layoffs.

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

BMT Office Administration

If managers catch employees constantly playing on their phones instead of working, they can take disciplinary action. Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. In the CareerBuilder poll, 37% of respondents reported frequent gossip, while 27% admitted to making the rounds to chat with fellow employees about topics unrelated to work.

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Why Certification and a Designation are Important for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

Besides the actual skills and competencies you learn through a certification program, it also demonstrates to those around you that you can set goals and achieve objectives – you can be trusted to go the distance. You gain new skills and competencies. One of the strongest ways to send that message is when you choose to certify.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

Success

This leads to gossip and politics, often just below the surface of what looks like a happy and positive culture. Not to mention the very real cost of all that extra task-switching that’s already out of control in the modern office. There’s also a counterintuitive issue that happens often in Friend-led cultures. The Fighter’s challenge.

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How to Handle Work Guilt

Jen Lawrence

However, due to the climbing cost of living, we have more people in the workforce who are working longer hours to make ends meet, which is resulting in less time at home with our loved ones. And if you’re going to make the argument that the job pays too well to leave, I pose a different perspective – what is it costing you?

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A staff away day that worked

Practically Perfect PA

Often no one actually thinks what the value is of running the meeting and you can’t count hangovers and gossip generated from the evenings drinks! And that is an extra cost on top of the £50,000! They also suggested the organisation cost the savings. Gallus Events did a few things. They: Had no session longer than 30mins.

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EMEA East – Personal Branding Q&A

Practically Perfect PA

I had a few jobs where I would write content for marketing material and I think doing this meant I could use some of my creative skills at work. But I do wonder how many of us actually take the time to develop our skills because we don’t think we are worth the cost to the employer. That inspires me to write this free blog!