Office Space

MAY 14, 2024

Rigid Structure Another challenge is the historically rigid structure of office management, which often limits the flexibility required to adapt to changing work styles.

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ONEs Blog

JUNE 2, 2024

As we move into the latter half of 2024, businesses are increasingly seeking efficient and intelligent solutions to manage their workplaces. One crucial aspect of office management is meeting scheduling, and finding the right tool can significantly enhance productivity and streamline operations.

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SnackNation

JANUARY 25, 2019

24 Office Manager Gifts That Are Better Than a Gift Card. Gifts for the Office Manager (OM) should be as multitasking, versatile, and fabulous as the recipient. This is the person who keeps your office running as well as a Tokyo train system, after all!). Gifts for Office Manager: The Organized Office Guru.

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Go Burrows

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Rita Reis is a longtime office manager and executive assistant in Portugal who is passionate about networking and getting things done. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Rita and I talk about the importance of networking, not being afraid to raise your hand, and developing your emotional intelligence.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“I worked at a company where the office manager took potlucks VERY SERIOUSLY. That potluck, she pouted and would not come out of her office and we FEASTED on cheeseburgers, fries, pizza, a rotisserie chicken, SO MANY BUNS and SO MUCH ALCOHOL. The overthrow. It was great.

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SnackNation

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

She was having the proposal printed and bound, had ordered a custom welcome sign, and was even having the meeting catered by the prospective client’s favorite local restaurant. This was echoed in our recent State of the Office Manager report (a first of its kind survey of hundreds of office managers from around the U.S.)

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 31, 2019

Each person is given a three-course meal that is catered from a local restaurant. These are catered meals! Is it appropriate for my office manager to send work-related emails regarding errors I have made to my personal email address on my days off? The potluck is pretty extravagant. Yeah, these aren’t potlucks!

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Ask a Manager

JULY 27, 2017

Here’s the issue: Due to some family connections, Arya was on a first-name basis with several of our senior office managers prior to working here. I should mention that Arya’s role at the company has nothing to do with event planning or office management or any role that would typically handle these kinds of arrangements.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I work in an office where it is common to have catered lunches for executive meetings. If not, then your office needs a policy that food for meetings is off-limits to non-attendees until the food is relocated to the kitchen afterwards, and you or whoever has the standing to do this needs to enforce it. Here we go….

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I’m talking about dozens of catering trays of food were being taken by someone going into the office after hours. It got so bad that they installed a lock on the catering fridge to prevent the theft of the food. Our office manager had apparently signed up for cranberry sauce and HOW DARE I try to take over her item.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 26, 2023

Each person is given a three-course meal that is catered from a local restaurant. These are catered meals! He sent the email to our office manager, the head of HR, one of the VP’s, and the president of the company. These lunches have been going on for at least two years, and are definitely expected by the employees.

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SnackNation

APRIL 3, 2017

Think about it – the grocery store sheet cake, the lifeless rendition of “Happy Birthday to You,” the elastic party hat string slicing into your windpipe like piano wire – few things in life are as depressing as a poorly executed office birthday party. On top of that, birthdays can be a lot of pressure.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

“Our Christmas party was a catered lunch affair in the biggest conference room with the whole department invited. Our office manager had apparently signed up for cranberry sauce and HOW DARE I try to take over her item. The mystery. This was the wrong decision.

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SnackNation

JULY 21, 2017

The Painfully Ridiculous Things Office Managers, Admins, and Executive Assistants Deal With. If you’re an Office Manager, Admin, or Executive Assistants, you probably get a million requests a day. An Office Manager submitted the following exchange: Employee: “I need lunch for a meeting.”

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 14, 2022

To entice people to return to the office despite the pandemic, management arranged for daily, freshly cooked catered lunches. When Omicron hit, fewer and fewer coworkers came to the office though and of the ones that did come to the office, well. Our office manager said she’d take care of it.

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