It’s pretty amusing how sometimes in a gathering, people gauge the prestige of your career in terms of that little identifier attached to your name and how much you make. And most of the time, it also comes with the title. If you’re a lawyer or a doctor or a Ph.D. or a CEO, chances [...]

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In a previous post, I cited the 10 dead and dying computer skills in today’s competitive workplace. While some of the takes may be off in some cases, it still is a resonating fact that a worker must continually hone skills and stay abreast with all the developments in one’s field. Bottom line is stagnancy [...]

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In my previous look into workplace quirks, Microsoft is one of those who expressed that meetings is one of those work hours leeches that workers have to deal with. I know some workers who also think likewise. Are meetings really that detrimental to productivity?

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Perhaps one thing of which workaholics deny themselves is the other four letter word – “life” (and a bunch of other fun four letter words). There are a lot of business owners and top managers drown themselves in too much work that their personal lives take a beating. And there are also a lot of [...]

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I’ve been writing a good deal about different approaches to the work environment in order to increase work productivity and often referred to how working at home or having control over time has an effect on worker morale and productivity. Yesterday, the NY Times had this great article on approaches to work hours entitled, Time [...]

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Commonly found in retail and food establishments, the suggestion box is one of the most underused and underrated relationship building devices and all it takes is a pencil, a pad of paper and a small drop box.

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Web Worker Daily posted this very insightful article on the 20-Hour Work Week of the Future. Many have really shifted to be freelancers especially with work-at-home jobs getting more and more lucrative and quite easy with the Internet. The article cites a Gartner research. As IT becomes woven into the fabric of people’s lives and [...]

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One of the dangers of business is collection – getting paid, especially with small business that do not have that large a capital to sustain operations. One way to curb this danger is to ask for a deposit or down payment for the service or product. While it can be a turn-off to customers if [...]

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Working online has now become a trend for some IT professionals and creative people (writers and artists). And why not? So far there are a lot of potential business to be made online. You can operate as a business or as a professional. Web Worker Daily pinpoints top 5 mistakes that online workers commit: Forget [...]

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According to Jaclyn Kostner’s doctoral dissertation on geographically dispersed work teams, the prime issue of remote workers is career implosion that is caused by lack of communication. Until now, it is still viewed as an issue despite all the improvements in remote worker management technologies. Kostner then formulated the CARE model for communicating between remote [...]

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This might come in real handy for those who do a lot of traveling or dealing with clients and personnel abroad. With the different time zones and daylight saving time in effect, scheduling can be a real problem. I’ve already featured some world clocks here before but here’s another tool for your arsenal. The World [...]

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One of the worst things happened to me today. As a problogger who does all of one’s work on his computer, I met the ultimate grief when my computer just died. I suspect a fried motherboard so that’s the end of that PC. Replacing it means that I’ll be building a new computer and just [...]

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Problogger Yuga reminded me of the importance of SWOT analysis when he used it on blogging. Here’s his post on SWOT-analyzing your blog. For those unfamiliar with the term SWOT, it stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It’s a business/project planning technique that helps you get the low-down of thing to aid you in [...]

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Some businessmen tend to keep it old school and store albums and albums of business cards. Why not? They’re little calls to business waiting to happen. The fact that someone gave you a business card means that they’re open to business (though some people may think it’s just common courtesy, but a “business” card is [...]

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This has been a debate that has raged in the workplace for so long. From experience, many workplaces today are shifting toward a results-oriented approach to working. The I-don’t-care-how-you-do-it-just-do-it mentality is amazingly (alarmingly?) becoming the fad. It’s supposed to support worker creativity. While I, myself, enjoy such an approach to working as a worker, I [...]

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