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Motivation for the Lazy – Micro-Decision Technique

Do you consider yourself a lazy person who is difficult to motivate to grow? You would like to lose weight, learn a foreign language, change your profession, but all the time there are some excuses. You don’t have the strength, the money, the mood, you want quick and easy results, for which you don’t have…

January 3rd, 2021  4 minutes

15 Useful Tips and Tricks for Freelance Beginners

Freelance attracts with its flexible schedule, the ability to travel freely, and more time spent with family and friends. Where to start, how to act to become a successful, popular freelancer, to find the desired freedom and steadily growing earnings. A few tips for novice freelancers: 1. Do not quit immediately Initially, it is better…

December 30th, 2020  4 minutes

Employee’s Insubordination: What Should Manager Do?

Any work is a place where a large number of people from different areas of life meet and work together to achieve a common goal. All these people bring a number of conventions, have different relationships with each other, have different perspectives and each has a different approach to work. Some workers will always try…

December 29th, 2020  4 minutes

How to Organise Freelancer’s Work from Home

Today I would like to talk about a more general topic that concerns all freelancers in general. How organisation freelance changes your work approach.  This topic does not seem difficult, but sometimes it is quite painful when you switch to freelance for the first time. There are two possible scenarios: Sometimes it seems that working…

December 28th, 2020  4 minutes

A Disloyal Employee – How to Spot Them?

Loyalty is highly valued in interpersonal relations. This is usually understood as loyalty to values, attitudes and consistency, which is expressed in honesty in relationships. In the labor market, loyalty is a valuable feature of a good employee. Its weight is significant and contributes to a high degree of discipline and compliance. In our view,…

December 25th, 2020  3 minutes

How to Overcome Laziness and Increase Productivity?

Have you ever had so many things to do that you didn’t even want to get up from the sofa and go do them? Do you want to go beyond your capacity, where you are now, to overcome laziness and get to work? Do you want to stop sighing with fatigue? Forget about the panic…

December 23rd, 2020  4 minutes

How to Manage Multiple Projects Effectively

Many believe they can handle several projects, but not all can effectively manage multiple projects and steer them towards productivity. It requires professionalism; else, instead of projects to run smoothly, you might end up in a major and nasty flop.

December 21st, 2020  0 minutes

How to Succeed with the New Remote Work Standard

Since the advent of digital marketing, there has not been such a significant event as COVID-19. Not only has the pandemic dramatically affected countless lives around the world, but it has also caused a shockwave in the global economy that will continue to affect for some time to come. Since most customers work remotely, and…

December 17th, 2020  5 minutes

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Why is it Important to Keep Track of Project Time

It is essential to track project time because it helps business owners to reflect on how they utilize their time in business and even personally. Time tracking is a crucial ingredient for a healthy workflow, insight, and productivity.

December 15th, 2020  0 minutes

How to Maximize Cybersecurity When Working Remotely

As entire groups move from offices to remote workstations in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, maintaining continuity in best security practices cannot be overlooked. Protecting sensitive data when you and your colleagues no longer use the same network to access it requires vigilance and teamwork. But home network protection – which can be implemented…

December 13th, 2020  3 minutes

9 Honest Facts About Finding a Job

The truth should not be hidden, and nowhere else, when each of us at least once in our lives faced with the realities of finding a job. It is difficult, everything does not always go smoothly. Let’s just talk honestly. You are not the only one facing the stupid truth. Or maybe it isn’t. stupid?…

December 12th, 2020  5 minutes

10 Skills That Will Help Increase Your Salary in 2024

Ubiquitous automation inevitably leads to a reduction in the number of jobs. In this article, we will look at what skills are useful to start learning now, so that in the future you will not be left without a job. Basics of Programming Digitalization is gradually covering all spheres of our life, but it would…

December 12th, 2020  6 minutes

Emotional Burnout Syndrome – Why It Affects Us and How to Get Rid of It.

Excessive psychological and emotional stress on people at work can lead to a condition known as burnout syndrome. This type of burnout is mainly due to a person’s poor mental state, caused by a connection with the profession. An important role here is played by the tolerance to stress of the person and his ability…

December 10th, 2020  5 minutes

Wasting Time at Work: How to Handle It

Everyone has experienced wasting time at work – whether it’s scrolling through social media, unnecessary meetings, chatting with colleagues, or just staring at a blank screen. While it may seem harmless to take a break here and there, too much unproductive time can start to affect work performance, causing employees to lose focus and even…

December 9th, 2020  2 minutes

How to Build Relationships with Employees and Team Members?

The relationship you create with individual subordinates determines your ability to fulfill three key managerial responsibilities: creating a feedback-based culture, building a cohesive team, and achieving results together. But these relationships do not follow the rules that establish different relationships in our lives; they remind you of balancing on the rope. You must take personal…

December 8th, 2020  4 minutes

How to Train Employees to Track Working Time

In different parts of the world, it is lawful to track the working time of employees. Take, for instance, according to federal law in the United States as stipulated by the Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA), employers should have records of every hourly employee, showing the number of hours they log in each day and workweek,…

December 1st, 2020  0 minutes

What is the Best Way to Manage Virtual Teams?

This article concerns itself with explaining in detail the definition of a virtual team, managing a team that operates virtually, what it takes to build a distributed team, and as well manage it effectively, coupled with useful tips and tools for team building taken from examples of successful remote teams.

November 25th, 2020  0 minutes

Is Upwork the Best Place for Finding Freelancers?

Upwork is a reliable platform for professionals in fields such as copywriting, web development, graphic design, and many more. And many clients in Upwork find a freelancer(s) to take up and complete various business projects. Upwork is not only a marketplace for posting jobs, but it is also a site that allows freelancers to find…

November 23rd, 2020  0 minutes
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How to Build a Resilient Remote Working Team

The strain on people’s resilience is beginning to show as we are nearing ten months into the pandemic. It’s been difficult to stay motivated when each day brings depressing news, on top of the everyday challenges due to working remotely. Managers should learn to recognize these challenges early on, so they can act upon them…

November 23rd, 2020  3 minutes

15 Useful Hubstaff Alternatives

Are you searching for a Hubstaff alternative? Or do you want alternative software that can help with standard integration and time tracking? The good news is there’re tons of time and expense tracking tools available in the market today. But the challenge is choosing the one best suitable for your needs. In this guide, you…

November 17th, 2020  10 minutes

6 Useful Software Tools For Working And Managing A Remote Team

We’ve collected and reviewed the best software tools for remote teams. Below are our suggestions and ratings. Remote work is not only the need for a time but is also becoming a future trend.  When people work remotely on the same project or for the same firm, sometimes it becomes challenging to manage remote teams. …

November 11th, 2020  4 minutes
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How to Cheat Time Trackers: Most Common Ways Employees Can Trick Time Tracking Software

Time tracking is an important part of any business. It helps you keep track of how much time employees spend on specific tasks, and it can help you identify areas where you can save money. However, some employees find ways to cheat the system and get paid for hours they did not work. In this blog…

July 7th, 2022  9 minutes

Change Management: The Impact on Organizations

“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. “Rupert Murdoch, Change Management Review. Life is a series of changes. It can be exciting, new, and full of possibilities—or it can be scary, uncomfortable, and unknown. Change can have both good and bad consequences…

March 31st, 2022  15 minutes

Do Higher Wages Increase Productivity?

As employers strive to achieve high employee productivity, one strategy that often comes into play is wage increases. Wages affect employee productivity in several ways, but the most significant impact may be on worker motivation and satisfaction. Raising wages will likely make employees happy because they will see an increase in their take-home pay. They…

April 25th, 2024  13 minutes

Productivity vs. Efficiency: What’s More Important in the Workplace?

There are a lot of discussions these days about productivity vs. efficiency in the workplace. Many people believe that if we could just get more things done, we would be more successful.  However, there is another side to this story: efficiency. It is just as important to be efficient as it is to be productive….

April 3rd, 2022  14 minutes

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