Tagged with `office`

18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work

One of the rising blogger, Dave Cheong, has a good article on how to stay focused at work. I agree, sometimes it is difficult to stay focused in office environment – hallway chatters, and shoulder tapping distractions etc. Dave gives it all and provides 18 ways to stay focused. Here’s a few: Write out a daily…

10 Ways to Relaxify Your Workspace

Feel stress and tense when you are working in your office or cube? No matter if you are working at office or home, there are needs to improve your quality of your workspace to feel more positive. Steve Pavlina has suggested 10 ways to “relaxify” your workspace. Those tips will ease your emotion when working…

Clean Up Your Wires

A few days ago, Lifehacker ran a nice Hack Attack about cleaning up all the cords in your work area. Based on all the comments we received about the USB cord, it seemed a good reason to go back and point people to this illustrated how-to on cleaning up the wires in your work area…

How to avoid office politics

Bren from Slacker Manager has an interesting post of his experience on avoiding office politics. He feels that office politics take too much space and time and not contribute to his productivity for his organization. It is not his cup of tea so he shares his ways on how to avoid it: Wear no mask. Be transparent. Flex…

Coping with noise in the workplace

There are times that noise interrupts your concentration and flow. I believe many people tried different ways to avoid the noise. Roger Johansson at 456 Berea Street has created an article on discussing a way to cancel the noise through headphone and encourage people to suggest their ways to kill of noises. There are couple…

Death to the Cubicle!

FastCompany has an article on working in cubicle. Some people think cubicle is good for communication, other thinks office is better for concentration. What is the best way? Well there are no best ways, but the article touches base on some issues and solutions behind cubicle and office design: … The solution, Tompkin says, is to…

5 Ways to Improve Your Productivity in the Office

It is possible to find extra time in your day simply by reorganizing the way in which you approach the tasks that fall within your responsibility. Take a look at each of the following areas of your working life and see where you can make improvements which will allow you to put more time…

Ten Ways Computer can Ruins your Health

There is a Tech/Health article surfaces which talks about 10 ways a computer can hurt your body, mind and environment. It also suggest ways to defense or minimize the damage. Read this article if you are sitting in front of computer all day. Here are summary of the ten: Repetitive Stress Injuries Extra Weight Laptop-Induced Shoulder And Back…

Average Desk Harbors 400 Times More Bacteria Than Average Toilet Seat

This is a pretty scary title – researchers find average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than average toilet seat. Actually there aren’t only desktop in office that keeps bacteria, according to the study of University of Arizona germ guru Dr. Charles Gerba, Phone, Water fountain handle, Microwave door handle and Keyboard are the top…

Discussion on Working At Home

Nick over Treadwatch.org has discussed his home office environment and his setup. Nick also talks about the benefits and drawbacks on working at home and what does it mean to him: There are drawbacks to working at home aswell as benefits though. Some of those include: Being shouted at from downstairs to come help with something Working to…

Top 10 ways to look busy at work

Over at Okdork.com, there is a funny article on top 10 ways to look busy at work. Look around your office guys, see who is doing anything like these: … 1- walk really fast when you are going anywhere as to appear something important is going to happen 2- carry a notebook with you at all times. seems…

Have fun at work

There is no much point to work if you are not enjoying your work and its environment. If there are no fun in the job, you may not have passion on the tasks, or the tasks are dull and repetitive. If that is the case, Keith’s suggestion on how to play at work can make…

DIY: Build your own cubicle bike rack

If you are riding your bike to work and cannot find a space for putting your bike in your cubicle, you may want to think of some creative solution. If you can’t think of any solution, Berserk.org can give you an idea. By spending around $25 dollars, you can make your own bike rack in…