fm:systems
JUNE 26, 2025
Discover how predictive maintenance enhances office efficiency by preventing equipment failures, reducing downtime, and optimizing repair schedules. Learn how this proactive approach boosts productivity, lowers costs, and creates a more reliable work environment.
C-Suite Assistants
JUNE 26, 2025
You’ve just hired a new executive assistant (EA) and you expect them to be perfect from Day One. You’ve interviewed them thoroughly and checked their references. They may even have taken some assessments and are experts with every productivity tool used in your office. They know your industry and your customer segment. You are hoping they can even read your mind.
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Office Snapshots
JUNE 26, 2025
The former multi-tenant office on Lange Kleiweg in Rijswijk has undergone an impressive transformation in just ten months. From an outdated office building to a dynamic and future-proof working environment that brings companies and organisations together. The Den is more than a workplace; it is an environment in which connection, flexibility and experience are central.
Insperity
JUNE 26, 2025
Have you heard of people strategy? It’s your company’s plan for how you’ll leverage your people to grow your business and achieve business goals. One of the most critical parts of your people strategy is creating a positive culture that drives the engagement and productivity that’s essential for business success. We call this a people-first culture.
Speaker: Chester Santos
Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform
Fellow
JUNE 26, 2025
New in Fellow: Ask Fellow is your on-demand AI Chief of Staff, built to surface insights and generate deliverables from meetings, even the ones you skip. At most companies, the Chief of Staff is a force multiplier. They’re the right hand to the CEO or department lead, surfacing insights, keeping priorities on track, and making sure nothing critical falls through the cracks.
Robertson Cooper
JUNE 26, 2025
Learn what burnout is and how to approach breaking burnout, by tackling workplace stress by managing energy and workload more effectively
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Work Life
JUNE 26, 2025
There’s a myth that to be a good leader, you need to be the smartest person in the room. As a result, many leaders struggle to admit that they don’t have all the answers. They’re reluctant to ask for help and end up struggling in silence. This reluctance is normal—it’s a fear-based response to not wanting to look incompetent to your team or superiors.
Quantum Workplace
JUNE 26, 2025
Employee development has always been important. But lately, it feels like the stakes have changed. Skill gaps are growing. AI is accelerating. Talent is harder to keep. And HR teams are under pressure to create employee growth and development strategies that actually work—for employee s, managers, and the business.
Work Life
JUNE 26, 2025
Workplaces in the United States are remarkably conflict averse. Many people don’t even like to give criticisms to someone else directly, let alone to hash out a disagreement over a path forward or address a conflict of values. As a result, we kick many conflicts down the road in ways that create problems. We lead people to believe we agree with them when we don’t and we fail to address small concerns early on, when they can be fixed.
Workplace Insight
JUNE 26, 2025
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) among UK architects has risen sharply over the past year, according to a new report published by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The 2025 RIBA AI Report reveals that nearly six in ten architecture practices now make use of AI tools, up from 41 percent last year. The data suggests a growing belief within the profession that digital technologies can support rather than replace architectural practice.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Work Life
JUNE 26, 2025
Twelve years ago, I was interviewing with Suzanne “Suz” Gibbs Howard for a role at Ideo. Suz had been a partner at Ideo for about 20 years and had built her career as a human-centered consultant. I was a young, aspiring designer who didn’t fully understand the enormity of the brand’s name. I just knew how to design learning experiences. I was 25 years old and had previously worked as a grassroots organizer, where I designed experiences to bring people together.
Business Psych Blog
JUNE 26, 2025
PCL’s Senior Consultant Psychologist, Sophie Edwards, joins Emma Jones, CEO of Disruptive Hiring, to explore how psychometric assessments can cut through the honeymoon glow – helping predict real workplace performance. The post appeared first on Psychological Consultancy (PCL).
Success
JUNE 26, 2025
Author and productivity consultant David Allen once said, “You can do anything—but not everything.” Allen’s wise words suggest that you can achieve anything you put your mind to. However, limitations such as time and energy require you to be selective about your pursuits. In other words, you must choose your focus and then fully engage in the specific goal or dream that matters most to you.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
I get scolded every so often for using colored dry erase markers to indicate if my department is meeting (green) or missing (red) certain metrics. Apparently we’re only every supposed to use black…the weekly ‘goal’ emails are color-coded this way, so I figured why not? I’ve never gotten an actual answer to that query. Another point of contention is supplying bottled water for coworkers (the only water fountain is all the way in the basement).
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Work Life
JUNE 26, 2025
Short-term jobs are common in today’s employment landscape, so don’t fret if you have a few brief stints on your résumé. Not only can such experiences at several organizations showcase the breadth of your experience, your ability to adapt to new corporate cultures is also a skill you can sell. But you do have to sell it it, and HR experts explain how to positively spin your employment scorecard and answer questions about your résumé that hiring managers may ask.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
I was once told that it “looked bad” that I left on time. As a manager, I should have been staying past my scheduled end of shift, even if I had no work, so that my team could see me putting in the extra. (Never mind that I was routinely the first one in the building and rarely took my full lunch.) Oddly enough, my supervisor was not willing to put her requirement that I put in unpaid overtime for the optics of it in writing.
Work Life
JUNE 26, 2025
While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia. Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn’t found a job in the industry that surrounds her. “It stings a little bit,” she said. “I never imagined it would be this difficult just to get a foot in the door.” Young people gra
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
I was working as a recruiter and was considered part of the HR department. I didn’t have enough work to do because there were constant lulls in hiring due to the nature of the work. I asked for some busy work and was given a paperwork project to do, basically manually collating papers spread out on a conference table. A low-level HR person was helping me.
Mad in America
JUNE 26, 2025
I can’t listen to audiobooks. Oh, now I wish I could, but I see every word scrolling across my mind like subtitles. If I try to do something else while listening the ticker tape vanishes, and I have to go back and relisten. When certain conversations shift in tone, the ticker tape kicks in again, most likely as a trauma response. I stop hearing the voice and only read the words in my mind, silently and urgently, hoping they’ll clue me in to why my nervous system flagged the change.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
In reply to Mad Scientist. Well… HR was in that meeting. So they may have passed it off as a one-off thing at some point, but LW saying “yeah, this is very typical of my boss’s work” is probably not the worst thing. That way HR cannot say twelve or 24 months down the road “Oh gosh, this is the first time we’re hearing of it.” And the fact that his behavior is impacting other people–that helps HR to understand that this is not just something that is
Success
JUNE 26, 2025
It’s the end of a sweet chapter. McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme are officially calling it quits with their yearlong partnership wrapping up on July 2, 2025. Krispy Kreme and McDonald’s end collaboration McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme first launched their partnership in late 2022 as part of a test run to bring premium doughnuts to McDonald’s menus. Initially rolled out in select locations, the collaboration allowed customers to purchase popular Krispy Kreme items directly from McDonald’s restaurants.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
1. opening a.pdf file more than once, which they said the IT team told them made a new copy every time and clogged things up 2.
McKensey
JUNE 26, 2025
Amid unprecedented rate hikes and financial pressures, large employers, which account for more than $800 billion in healthcare expenditures, are driving the future of the health benefits market.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
When I worked as an office assistant, my manager once took me aside and said she wanted to tell me a story. She told me about a woman who used to work for her who would stay at the office until 10PM every night and she, the manager, never had any idea what she was doing that whole time. She finished the story by saying, “And I want you to think about that.” I worked a max of 20 hours a week.
McKensey
JUNE 26, 2025
Skip to main content Private real estate companies can ace the US student housing test June 26, 2025 | Article Alex Wolkomir   Jonathan Law Skomantas Pocius Aligning the needs of students, universities, and private real estate owners and operators can lead to long-term success in student housing. Student housing on and near college campuses in the United States is a difficult asset class to master.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
“Where did you go when you were on leave?” This is in a country with strong employee protections, in the days of paper and limited cell phones. My manager wanted to talk to me, but I had a 1/2 day leave (it might have been before a weekend, I can’t remember). She rang my PA who told her I was on leave. Manager forgot that she had approved the leave.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
In reply to TRC. oh god, you’ve reminded me of the time we had to pause rollout of auto-emptying recycle bins in outlook after it came out that a very important head of department was using it for organisation, as in have folder in the bin for every year and move all emails to the folder. I left that job before it got resolved but I remember just staring at her in horror when she told me.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
Once at our annual conference, the head of our government agency approached me (regional manager) and the head of another department and told us to work together to get HR what they needed to get a raise for a particular employee (we typically get COLAs, but it takes something else to get in band increases beyond that). He’d been talking to that employee during happy hour the night before and he wanted us to do what we could for him.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
In reply to the one who got away. As a summer intern I got slapped for being so efficient and thus upstaging the current employees.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
When I was a young sailor (20), I was in charge of ordering supplies and parts for our shop. Oddly, ordering major components was easier than procuring minor things like gaskets and other replacement parts. Right before I went on leave, I did a big order before going on leave, but had not been able to find the specific colored lightbulbs we needed for some of our equipment.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
I had a boss that was constantly critiquing the way my emails were formatting. She claimed I was using a Navy Blue font color. I was just using the auto color that comes with outlook. She also didn’t like the following way of formatting emails and would email me back berating me. Dear Joe, Please send over the 10am report. Thank you. Jane It had to be Dear Joe, Please send over the 10am report.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
In reply to 3dognight. There was a manager at my last job like this. I wasn’t on his team, but knew several people that were. A group of us would go out to lunch about once a month and lunch usually lasted a little over an hour. We were all salary exempt and no one else’s manager cared that occasionally we took a long lunch since we good employees.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
In reply to ChemistbyDay. I had a dean’s assistant who wanted to be the ruler of the whole entire world tell me that faculty were complaining that I was reading a magazine at work — but it was my job to skim the magazine for articles about the faculty members’ design work for the bibliography of the annual report on which I was working.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 26, 2025
In reply to metadata minion. Being too quick to answer my work phone when it rings. Answering emails too quickly (not wrong, just how quickly I am responding). Being TOO efficient. Being TOO organized. Oh. My recent favorite: being TOO professional on the phone.
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