5 Reasons Why You Need a Monitor Arm When talking about office cubicle ergonomics, most people think solely about adjusting the lumbar of their office chair or repositioning the height of their adjustable desk. But if you are truly thinking about the benefits of ergonomics, you must not overlook using a monitor arm for your computer monitor. Monitor arms enable users to maintain neutral position of their Read More
14 Star Wars Desk Accessories to Bring the Force to Your Cubicle One of the most anticipated movies in our household is easily Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This seventh movie has my husband and sons (ages 10 and 6) frothing at the mouth, binge watching episodes I-VI and anticipation grows with each new trailer as it’s released. I marvel at the salesmanship. The movie Read More
How to Organize a Productive Meeting Every year, our neighborhood HOA has a meeting. Just ONE meeting – once a year. It’s always scheduled for the 2nd Tuesday in November, same time, and same location so everyone is aware well in advance. The problem is, attendance is always historically low. It’s so mind boggling to me. I LOVE meetings! Even Read More
Benefits of Buying New Office Furniture There comes a time in every office manager’s life when she must ask the question, “Is it time for my company to buy new office furniture?” Perhaps your business is moving to a new building, you’re expanding, you’d like to encourage more collaboration with a more contemporary open office plan, or maybe your old furniture Read More
Can Boomers and Gen X’ers Embrace the Open Office? We hear so much about the Millenials, but what about the Boomers and Gen X’ers? Is it fair to ask an established employee at your company to embrace the open office after spending a decade or two behind three walls? Imagine the assault of sites and sounds to someone thrust from a Read More
4 Ways to Shrink Your Office Space Expense A typical company’s office space expense is probably second only to payroll. It makes sense, right? You invest in strong talent and want to provide a work environment that is an inspiring place to be – but often times the “old school” office design layout is a vast wasteland of costly space. In Read More
Working with Generation X I am absolutely fascinated with the psychology of “generations” and how their distinct personalities shape the workplace. In some organizations, you’ll see an age gap of nearly 50 years between the oldest and youngest employees. There is a broad range of perspectives, needs and attitudes floating around the office. Today’s workplace is most definitely a multi-generational one Read More
The Unexpected Benefits of Volunteerism As I look back on my marketing career, I think fondly of the times I coordinated and participated in philanthropic events. The corporation I worked for partnered primarily with Special Olympics. So, every year, I aided in that event. As it were, it turned out to be a profound experience for me in my 20’s. Read More
The Evolution of the Office Cubicle The common office cubicle has had a big impact on society; from influencing some of the great architects of the modern age, plus sparking debate and studies into the capacity that the average worker’s office environment actually plays. Its evolution has progressed over the years from old-school boring cubicles, into innovative productivity enhancing modern Read More
Work Lounges an ‘Introvert Oasis’ in the Open Office While at Neocon 2015, I came to the drastic realization that I am an introvert through-and-through. Wandering the busy and crowded maze of booths, elevators, stairwells and cafe’s gave me plenty of moments to panic. As I was about to come undone, I took notice of the cozy and quiet office work lounges scattered Read More
Habitual Hunching If you’re like me, you probably spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen. And unintentionally, you undoubtedly spend a lot of time in a “hunched over” position. Whether it’s sitting at a desk, in a car, looking at your phone (or even walking), the default position for many people is: shoulders forward, hips flexed, Read More
The Afternoon Slump You’re going full steam ahead in the morning, plowing through your work assignments. You’ve had a decent night’s sleep. Your brain is on fire! You feel like you are on top of the world! After a sensible lunch you plan on getting right back to your routine of “getting things done”. Instead, at about 2 p.m. you Read More
The Ill Effects of Sitting Watch the news and it’s likely you’ll hear a story about how the “act of sitting” is bad for you. The storylines are not just about how poor posture can lead to chronic pain, but more that the act of sitting can actually cause premature death. It’s not really new news that most Americans spend Read More
Home Sweet Office When you’re at home, you feel comforted by your warm walls, foot-friendly floors, and comfortable furniture. People decorate their homes because they love spending time there; it’s cozy and inviting. So decorating your office in the same manner will make it feel more like home and less like the daily grind. There are easy ways to decorate Read More
3 Ways to Avoid Spelling Errors One of the most embarrassing moments in my career was a time when I sent a company wide email regarding a sponsorship opportunity with our local zoo, called ZooFari!. Only I wrote, “ZooFart!” in the subject line. Luckily for me, it was an internal employee email. Thank goodness that a misspelling like that didn’t Read More
It’s Monday – Time For More Office Dogs And Office Cats I don’t know about you but it’s raining AGAIN and I feel like Monday has hit me in the head with a hammer. I just don’t do cloudy all that well so I’m going to make my own sunshine in the office with this week’s installation of office dogs and Read More
Out of Office Etiquette It’s summer time, which can only mean one thing….VACATION!!! (Hopefully you’ve read our blog last month about the importance of taking a summer vacation)! Now, you may be tempted to keep your phone in your pocket, ever-ready in case of a work emergency but….you MUST RESIST that temptation. Instead, set up an out-of-office reply for your email, Read More
How to Work Effectively with Limited Sleep Some people are genetically altered to get through the workday on just a few hours of sleep. Others need their full 8 hours to feel human. I’m the later of the two. But lately, that has not been happening for me and I find myself shuffling around like a zombie from the Walking Read More
Office Furniture To Check Out At Neocon 2015 I am an office furniture geek and lover of all things office design. It’s Sunday night and I’m gearing up for Neocon 2015 tomorrow. I just downloaded the Neocon app and am busy researching all the stuff I want to see at the massive Merchandise Mart in Chicago tomorrow. Here’s my top Read More
Be On Time Ok, maybe I’m too much of a “Type A” personality or maybe it was my military upbringing but it really bugs me when people are perpetually late. Am I the only one that thinks it is important to be on time when it comes to both our professional and personal life? Is that an old fashioned value? It’s Read More
