Email Gossip Phones 
Success
MARCH 29, 2022
Using your phone, tablet or computer in bed. Most of our favorite evening devices—laptops, tablets and mobile phones—emit short-wavelength blue light brightly and right in your face. Checking your phone during a conversation. Nothing turns people off like a mid-conversation text message or even a quick glance at your phone.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Work emails trickle in after hours. Examples of mental boundaries at work might be avoiding office gossip or discussions that aren’t work-appropriate. Whether it’s checking emails on the commute home, thinking about work at the dinner table or stressing about the latest project first thing in the morning.”
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
We share war stories over happy hours, at backyard barbecues and sometimes via an international phone call if need be. We would go to long lunches, she wouldn’t question if I left early, and would share office-gossip that I knew was unprofessional. By now most of us have encountered that boss. Shifting the Blame.
Success
MAY 31, 2022
An email preview pops up in the corner of your screen. Celebrity gossip. The truth is, the distractions coming from our phones, computers and other electronic devices are far from being the whole problem when it comes to our getting derailed from the things that matter most to us and the world around us. Where was I?
BMT Office Administration
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Any co-worker checking social media notifications instead of reading employee emails qualifies as online procrastination. Technology-related procrastination is relatively easy to stop by implementing a no-phone policy during the workday. Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. Offline Procrastination.
Practically Perfect PA
MAY 28, 2012
As assistants we are trusted with confidential information on a regular basis, we see our boss’ emails, we open their post and we often hear private details about other members of staff. The following steps should make this clear: a) Mark the email as ‘confidential’, you can do this in the email options tab.
Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant
APRIL 23, 2014
Secretaries answer the phone, administrative professionals manage communication between staff and customers. Secretaries listen to office gossip and complaints, administrative professionals act as corporate arbitrators and manage conflict between administrators and staff. You can just write “Thx!”
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