Latest medical advice: Log off email
Office workers who take an email hiatus focus on a single task for longer stretches of time and have lower stress levels, according to a new study by the University of California and U.S. Army researchers.
Category: Career
4 techniques to nudge your memory
Who needs a good memory, with all the tech gadgets to help you? Technology helps, but a good memory will serve you well when you need to recall someone’s name, or make a mental to-do list. Here are four memory techniques to practice and improve upon:
Lazy, hazy days of summer
What’s your favorite summer perk? In an Adecco survey, U.S. workers ranked summer flextime as their most wished-for summer perk.
9 ways to reward team members
In Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton’s book The Orange Revolution, they offer low-cost ideas for sparking or rewarding employee engagement:
Tips to relieve computer eye strain
Blurry vision and dry eyes are rampant, now that roughly one-third of those over age 18 spend at least five hours a day on a computer, tablet or smartphone. Tips for easing eye strain:
‘I was a superstar at work today’
The secret weapon to boost your career could be a tool often associated with 15-year-old girls: a diary.
Promoting your personal brand
Your personal brand is ultimately about maintaining a consistent, professional presence online—on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and blogs—and in the real world.
Sharing your knowledge of the job with a former employer
Question: I keep getting calls from my former employer about how to do my old job. For 24 years, I was the “go-to girl” who held that company together. When the business was sold several months ago, I was let go along with many others.
Now I feel that I am being used. If they can’t figure out how to do my work, then they never should have fired me. However, I may need a recommendation from this employer during my job search, so I’m not sure how to handle this. Should I continue to answer their questions?
Finding the root of workplace discontent
Little things about your workday may irk you. But what’s really getting under your skin? Researchers Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer conducted a comprehensive study of 238 employees who kept track of how their days went. When you feel miserable on the job, confer with this list the researchers compiled.
Time for a tech upgrade?
How essential is the latest technology to today’s Gen Y workers, or those ages 18 to 29? In a recent Workplace Options survey, 92% of Gen Y respondents said that offering access to the latest technology makes employers more attractive than their competition.