An office is generally a room or other area where people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term "office" may refer to business-related tasks.
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How the Medici, monks, and the British Empire shaped your office
The coronavirus pandemic has forced most people to create an office space of their own – whether by devoting a room in ...
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Whereby co-founder's 6 tips for nailing remote work
Did you know Ingrid Ødegaard is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on 'How to compete with tech giants' ...
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4 ways to deal with shitty colleagues while working remotely
Working with a colleague you don’t like every day is pretty rough — but it turns out this problem doesn't disappear ...
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Returning to the office: How to let people connect safely
So you like our media brand Growth Quarters? You should join our Growth Quarters event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear ...
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Here’s how to make your virtual meetings more efficient
Ineffective meetings were a huge problem before coronavirus, but now watercooler chats have become scheduled 30-minute Zoom ...
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Here's how to keep you and your team motivated — even remotely
Staying motivated at work can be difficult at times but it's not impossible. Here's how you can motivate yourself and your ...
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How to convince your boss to let you work from home — forever!
Here's how to convince your boss to let you work from home forever and ever. It's way easier than you think — you just ...
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Working from home is great — until your co-workers show up
While working from home can be challenging, remember that at least you have your privacy — cherish that.
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3 reasons why working from bed is actually good for productivity
What if I told you that you could — and should — where possible treat yourself and work from bed every once in a while? ...
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Foolproof tips to communicate better with your remote workforce
Are you struggling to communicate with your colleagues and employees now that most of us are working from home? Here are ...
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The weirdo's guide to WFH productivity: Sanity shower, squats, and snacks
Working from home and struggling to stay productive? If so, you’re in luck because I’m here to share three weird — ...
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Office work will never feel the same after the coronavirus pandemic
“I can't go back there. It’s like a cage!” These were Ana’s first words to me, spoken as though having just ...
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India will let IT companies operate with 50% of staff in their offices from April 20
Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation and extended the countrywide lockdown till May 3 to curb ...
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3 ways to maximize your work station at home
Work from home? Maximizing your work station is easier than it sounds. Here are three ways to make the most out of your screen, ...
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4 tips to keep work out of your weekends during the pandemic
Working from home during a pandemic is completely different to doing so in normal circumstances. Here's how to switch off ...
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How COVID-19 made old-school management irrelevant
This crisis presents an opportunity: deploy technology for a greater good, work with teams with less polarization, and get ...
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The best way to manage your inbox is to send fewer emails
Is your email inbox taking over your work-life? Are you unable to get any “real” work done because you’re too busy ...
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How working from home is demolishing traditional office hierarchies
With companies everywhere telling employees to work from home, the need for a manager who “checks on you” has suddenly ...
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Feeling lonely working from home? This nifty noise generator will re-create an office ambience
This noise generator will make working from home more bearable if you're missing the hustle and bustle of office life — ...
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Microsoft rebrands Office 365 as it adds features for beyond work hours
At a virtual event today, Microsoft announced it is expanding and rebranding its Office 365 subscription service into a new ...
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7 tweets that show what it's REALLY like to work from home
We took to Twitter to find out what it's really like to work from home and here's what we've found!
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7 tips for my fellow humans stuck working from home
Struggling to work from home? We've put together 7 simple — but useful tips — to make it more bearable and help you stay ...
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No clue how to handle coronavirus as a startup founder? Here's what we're doing
Helpful templates on how to deal with the coronavirus epidemic for startups, coworking spaces, and companies of any size. ...
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Not a fan of working from home? Let us change your mind
Have to work from home because of the coronavirus pandemic? Do you hate it? We're pretty sure we can change your mind forever. ...
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5 tips on how to survive as a remote worker
Working remotely, although convenient, can be lonely. With this in mind, here are five tips to help you survive as a remote ...
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Take it from me (and researchers): Open offices suck
There are many reasons why open offices — often popular among startups and scaleups — make sense, but they're not all ...
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I’m the CEO and I sit in the middle of the office — here’s why
People shouldn’t have to come seek me out, or to schedule time with me, if they want to get my eyes on something, or thoughts ...
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[Best of 2019] Steelcase Gesture Review: How to spend $1,000 on a chair and not regret it
A chair is just a chair, right? That's what I've always thought. As someone who gets to work from home, I will write from ...
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Police arrest head of $2.7M Ugandan cryptocurrency scam
Police have arrested one of the directors of a cryptocurrency startup in Uganda that closed suddenly and made off with investors' ...
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Ugandan cryptocurrency startup promises jobs — steals employees’ money instead
A number of Ugandan citizens have been left in the lurch after being promised jobs at a cryptocurrency startup that's gone ...
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We spent a workday on a treadmill desk so you didn't have to
Recently, we spent a full seven hours on a treadmill desk. Yes, while we were working. Here are the things we learnt that ...
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A single cryptocurrency whale caused Bitcoin's 2017 bull run, research claims
The same academic who, last year claimed that Bitcoin's 2017 bull run was sparked by market manipulation, is now saying that ...
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Watch me test a ‘walking desk’ for 7 hours straight because why not
These days we're meant to have it all: a great job and an fit body. But is this possible? Well, we spent a day working on ...
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Bitfinex: NYAG cited no authority to demand Tether documents
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is dead set on holding on to its documents despite objections from the office of the New ...
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How to keep focus in the office
From meetings to co-workers, it’s hard to get any meaningful work done in a modern office. Keeping focus is hard and productivity ...
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7 easy tricks you can use to improve your office on a budget
As a designer, I often get asked by growing companies how they can improve their offices and create maximum impact with a ...
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Coinbase fires 30 workers and closes Chicago office after just one year
Coinbase is scaling back its efforts to create a new "matching engine" for high-frequency trading, and will instead focus ...
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10 ways to annoy your coworkers on Slack
If you work at a company with remote workers or just a buttload of employees, odds are you’re using Slack to communicate. ...
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The MoodoGo will let you make smells wherever you may roam
At CES 2019, the company behind the Moodo scent diffuser has announced a new product: the MoodoGo – a portable machine ...
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Here's how to throw an office party using your Mac laptop
Just follow these instructions and you'll be throwing a raging office party using only your Mac laptop and some common supplies. ...
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Apple will splash out $1 billion on new Austin campus
After losing the title of the most valuable company of the world to Microsoft, Apple is looking to expand its network of ...
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Thousands of Google employees walk out to protest harassment, inequality
Google employees today took to the streets in a massive protest. At 11:10 a.m., in every time zone in which the staged walkout ...
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Open floor plans should be killed with fire — or sound
Research shows that because noise pollution is so bad in open floor plans, it causes productivity to drop by 20 percent.
