Quotation marks are an important part of your writing, but are you using them correctly with other punctuation? There are some potentially confusing rules, but you need to get them right to make sure people understand what you’re saying.
The demographic pie in today’s workplace divides up fairly evenly. Here is the breakdown of the workforce occupied by the four age groups.
Who are the powerful administrative assistants behind the best advertising agencies? Alexandra Bruell gives you a behind-the-scenes look at five powerful ad agency admins.
When you need a simple answer fast, can you beat communicating via instant messaging? That’s what one reader asked recently on the Admin Pro Forum.
Q. There’s a cool “gears” SmartArt element. Can I animate it so the gears spin?
Audio transcription is tedious. Listening, typing furiously, rewinding, toggling back and forth between audio and word-processing: it’s endless and inefficient. An application called oTranscribe aims to change that, and seems to be doing a great job, John Paul Titlow writes.
If you procrastinate, you’re stealing time that could help you ace your work. This quiz will help you tell if procrastination is hampering your effectiveness.
Improve your relationships by practicing mindfulness … Fight stress with science … Liberal arts degrees may not be a path to poverty after all.
Q: “Several months ago, half the people in our office were laid off, and the remaining hourly workers were cut from 40 hours to 32. The salaried employees had their pay reduced by 8% and assumed some of the hourly duties. As a salaried person, I am now doing more work for less pay. The owner said everyone would be affected by this downturn, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I am extremely angry about this and tired of being abused.” Disgusted
Too often professionals get overwhelmed with the sheer number of tasks and requests coming in, and fail to prioritize everything properly. This can waste an enormous amount of time. Instead of reacting to emails, calls and requests immediately, professionals should prioritize to figure out which truly need attention at any given time, Scott McDowell writes.
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