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 Wasted? [...]

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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 traditional [...]

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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 handled [...]

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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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Erik of Money Crashers wrote this great bit on career transitions. I’ve written a similar post on the topic here, one on starting new careers. I love how he placed the thoughts and feelings of career-switching in this part of a great first paragraph:

Let me guess, you are completely bored at work, you watch for [...]

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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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With today’s very demanding workplace and a much more demanding lifestyles, you can just run out of energy in the middle of whatever you’re doing. The trick to be always on the go is properly manage your energy. Here are a few tips to help you to properly use your juice.

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Computerworld published this list of 10 computer skills . If you’re and IT professional who’s still focusing on anyone of these areas, you might want to reconsider upgrading your skill sets now. Many business have upgraded and many schools are phasing them out in the curricula. You just might be unemployed tomorrow.

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David, over at Blogging Pro, posted this interesting bit for probloggers (like myself) who need to catch up and meet that post quota. It actually features this bit from Bloggers 4 Hire and these important tips.

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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 strategies [...]

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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 try [...]

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