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What Can Young Lawyers Teach Us About The Future Of Workspaces?

Allwork

The open space concept with the library tables brings me back to law school. The fundamental thing in law school is that you’re sitting at a long table with colleagues talking through challenges, not sitting alone in a cubicle or an office. I can see someone is on the phone, but still pass by and wave.”

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Interruption vs. Distraction: What’s the Difference?

Eat Your Career

The full video (“Managing Interruptions & Dealing with Distractions”) is available in the Career Success Library. It’s like someone coming into your workspace and knocking on your cubicle wall and saying, “Got a minute?” Or a phone call; that person who’s trying to reach you.

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Peace and quiet at work? Here are ten of the best and most far out solutions

Workplace Insight

The Cubicle The post war business environment and the advent of mechanised office work in the 1950s and 60s proved to be the perfect breeding ground for open plan offices to flourish. Unsurprisingly, people first began to realise the consequences of a vast floor full of other humans with their chatter, phones and typewriters.

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Productivity Boost: Do It Before Lunch!

Professional Assistant Blog

If youre looking for more ways to be productive, take a look at my large library of articles on productivity. A survey conducted in Britain states that solving your problems and being most productive happens before noon. 10:04 am is actually the time that you are most productive. 4:33 pm is the least productive time of your entire work day.

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