Americans have been working more hours than people in other industrialized countries for a long time. With the recent growth in remote work due to the COVID 19 pandemic, workdays are growing longer everywhere and about 40% overall in the United States. While many of us are working harder, our family and personal responsibilities have […]
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In 1970, Alvin Toffler published Future Shock which discussed the “dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future”. Or in his words, “I coined the term future shock to describe the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.” The pace of change, of modernization, has
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Welcome to our third in a series of three articles on cybersecurity. In this article, we engage a panel of experts to discuss practical steps organizations can take to improve Internet security for the overall office and remote workers. The Tasker Blog: In your opinion, what practical, immediate steps should organizations take to reduce the threat
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Welcome to our second in a series of Internet security articles. In this article, we discuss the impacts of cybercrime and Internet security best practices from the perspective of Dave Truitt, CEO of Discover Technologies. The Tasker Blog: As CEO of a growing technology company, what is your greatest fear regarding the recent rise in cybercrime? In
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Email is a major security threat. While restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, and sports stadiums are now open to full capacity and our overall social lives are returning to normal, our work lives have changed. More than ever before, we are working, buying and selling, and networking virtually. With this new normal, ransomware and overall cybercrime
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When you think about it, task management from a manager’s perspective is all about team management. For team members, it’s about getting work done on time and getting it done right. Staying on time, on budget, and delivering a consistent, quality work product means having and executing a task management plan. The best plans have
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It’s time to stop wasting time… One of the more challenging aspects of our day-to-day work lives is figuring out what to do and when to do it. Workweeks are a blur of meetings, email, and IM and phone conversations. Mixed in is the time we spend completing tasks and planning out and managing upcoming work.
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Identifying and prioritizing tasks sent in email can be challenging. Think about it. You receive an email informing you of a key task, with a critical due date, and with multiple attachments. Then you receive another email and then another. Bing, bing, bing… Before you know it, the task is buried in your inbox, mixed
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Your organization likely deals with hundreds of documents each day. But it is becoming more and more apparent that most tools are not effective when it comes to document management. It can be difficult to find and incorporate into your environment, a tool that allows multi-user editing, like Share-Point from Microsoft which can speed up the editing
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Task redundancy can be defined in a few different ways. First, task redundancy can refer to a basic task that is not required to achieve the deliverable, not required for the project completion or has no bearing on the completion or outcome of the project. It may also refer to a task that has been
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