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9 business travel hacks for greater cost control

Insperity

If you set up company purchasing cards, or P-cards, you can set limits to what and how much can be bought using the card. For instance, your office manager who never travels can still use her P-card to buy office supplies and earn cash back or reward miles to supplement your travel budget. Hire a travel agency.

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Planning an Office Move? Here’s What You Need to Know

SnackNation

Don’t worry—we’ve made a list to get you ready to handle every aspect of your office move. Many of these pointers came straight from our Facebook group of Office Managers! Establish your budget and purchasing process. Who (if anyone) will need to approve your purchases or vendor contracts? Size of current office.

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getting a friend fired, employer is controlling workers’ LinkedIn accounts, and more

Ask a Manager

He asked the current office manager how to get access to his account, and she said she had no idea what happened to the information (she was not the person who set this up back in the day) for everyone’s logins and couldn’t help him. Sales jobs when you have a bad product.

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the gong, the missing reply-all button, and other weird things companies thought would boost productivity

Ask a Manager

It was already hard to hear candidates/clients with everyone talking all the time, but CEO had read that a sales company somewhere had a gong in the office and they banged it whenever they made a sale, which caused excitement and made people work harder I guess. The aggressive sales. ‘Sorry. The talking ban.

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Planning an Office Move? Here’s What You Need to Know

SnackNation

Don’t worry—we’ve made a list to get you ready to handle every aspect of your office move. Many of these pointers came straight from our Facebook group of Office Managers! Establish your budget and purchasing process. Who (if anyone) will need to approve your purchases or vendor contracts? Size of current office.

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updates: friends at work, the higher-earning male coworker, and more

Ask a Manager

From there I worked as the office manager for a lovely, tiny temp agency, where my 4 wonderful coworkers restored my faith in humanity, the workplace, and myself. I started two weeks ago and have been loving it despite some 60+-hour weeks bringing order to the chaos. Those bosses really do still exist, it’s mind-boggling.

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should I tell my boss about a screw-up that turned out okay, drinking at work events, and more

Ask a Manager

I am an office manager in an office of 70-75 people. Our employees could potentially pre-purchase discounted tickets online and lose money if the show is cancelled, which seems to happen often based on the BBB complaints. This isn’t a perk; it’s a marketing gimmick — a way to generate sales of tickets.