Category: work-life balance
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Weekend Poll: Your Insights on Quiet Quitting and Quiet Firing Amid Everything Else
Septembers have changed In my newsletter yesterday, I reflected on just how much times have changed. While some of you will see your respective offices filling up once again as…
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Weekend Poll Results: Waking Up to the Importance of Sleep
With thanks to all who participated, here are your responses to my question … Are you getting enough sleep? We need more sleep How well rested do you feel today? When…
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Life lessons from a pandemic
Some background Ever since my first COVID-related article and Weekend Poll, which I drafted in late February 2020 and published a couple of days later, assistants and association leaders have…
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One of Those Days – reflections on this second day of June
I’ve just had one of those days ..
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Weekend Poll: Setting Boundaries
A few weeks ago, one reader shared a BBC article headlined, “Banning out-of-hours email ‘could harm employee wellbeing'” … believe it or not! Let’s take a look at your thoughts…
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Weekend Poll: Setting Boundaries
A few weeks ago, one reader shared a BBC article headlined, “Banning out-of-hours email ‘could harm employee wellbeing'” … believe it or not! Let’s take a look at your thoughts…
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Weekend Poll Results: Job Changes on the Horizon
… or they’re at least a possibility for some! With thanks to all who participated in my last Weekend Poll, here are your responses to my question: Is a job change…
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Weekend Poll Results: Assistants Could Use More Sleep
With thanks to all who participated, here are your responses to my question … Do you make sleep a priority? Many of you need more sleep Almost three out of every…
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Weekend Poll Results: Assistants are Invested
This is the third consecutive year for this poll. While fewer assistants self-identified as workaholics, have a look at assistants’ attention to email.
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Weekend Poll: Are You A Workaholic?
We all like to work hard and smart. Sometimes, though, we let work dominate our lives. For the third consecutive year, I’m asking … Are you a workaholic?
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Weekend Poll Results: The State of Sleep in 2018
With thanks to all who participated, here are your responses to my question … Do you make sleep a priority? Many of you need more sleep You see the pie chart…
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Weekend Poll Results: Maintain Boundaries for Life-Work Balance
Be flexible as required, but build a fence around your personal time
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Weekend Poll: Do You Have Balance in Your Life?
Do you have a good life-work balance, or do you find yourself working from home or staying extra hours at the office? It’s Weekend Poll time, and I’m asking if…
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Weekend Poll Results: Fewer Assistants Say They’re Workaholics, but …
This is the second consecutive year for this poll, and fewer assistants self-identified in 2018 as workaholics … but have a look at the results, and you’ll see why my…
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Weekend Poll: Life-Work Balance and Workaholics
Do you have a good life-work balance, or do you find yourself working from home or staying extra hours at the office? It’s Weekend Poll time, and I’m asking if…
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Fireworks!
This is Vancouver, where thousands of us converge on English Bay to make mad dashes into the waters off English Bay (or watch the madness!) for the city’s Polar Bear…
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Weekend Poll Results: Assistants Love to Travel
With thanks to all who participated, here are your responses to my question … Will you travel and explore the globe this year? Before getting to the results, I’d like to…
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Weekend Poll Results: How to Balance Your Work and Personal Lives
With thanks to all who are participating in my Weekend Polls, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. The focus of this discussion: Do you feel…