Why walk around the office when you can roll? The U3-X from Honda eliminates the need for strolling around the sea of cubicles and offers users the freedom to function without all that pesky leg movement. via HolyKaw
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Daily Stack is time management tool created by designers Sebastian Rønde Thielke and Anders Højmose. Designboom reports the simple design allows users to help track their work flow by creating physical representations of their tasks. The design consists of a small base and a series of wood blocks that each have a different colour and
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Chuck Pretto couldn’t figure out how to carry around his new iPad. So he decided to wear it. After ordering Apple Inc.’s new multimedia tablet last month, the 52-year-old property manager realized it might weigh down his briefcase. He didn’t have another bag or carrier to cradle the 9.7-inch,
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Last week, the Google logo was turned into an actual game of Pac-Man and we all took breaks to play. The Rescue Time Blog took a hard look at Pac-Man D-Day and compared it with previous Fridays (before and after Google’s recent redesign) and found some noticeable differences. We took a random subset of our
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Giving pay incentives to low-level workers and investing in their health and well-being can increase companies’ productivity and profits. Moreover, listening to the suggestions of low-level workers can go far to save companies money, reports The New York Times. Those are among the findings of a six-year international study led by Jody Heymann, who is
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According to Inc.com, saying thank you for a job well done can pay huge dividends. A survey by the International Association of Administrative Professionals and OfficeTeam found that, while managers ranked promotions and cash bonuses as the two most effective ways of recognizing employee accomplishments, workers said they actually preferred an in-person thank-you or having
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Despite “collaboration” becoming increasingly accepted and valued in business, there are still those that remain hesitant about sharing information or resources and about working with others. It’s still common to hear people say “I have developed a great tool, but I’m afraid that if I share it with anyone, they’ll steal my idea.” ReadWriteWeb reports
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If you are a self-employed person with not so many resources, scheduling and managing appointments can be tough. MakeUseOf.com takes a look at YourAM, an online business appointment manager that aims to help you by letting you organize your appointments. When you are adding a new appointment, YourAM will automatically resolve time slots for availability.
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If you track how you spend your time, sometimes the tracking is more tedious than the doing. Lifehacker reports the free app TimeSheet automatically logs your tasks based on user-defined rules, so you can spend more time working and less time managing. TimeSheet can be useful for just about anyone looking to see specifics on
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Task lists are great, but sometimes you want a reminder that’s right in front of your face to be absolutely certain you don’t forget something on the way to the office. Use a dry erase marker to leave yourself a mirror-note. Lifehacker reader ayellen shared a great, if unconventional, use for dry-erase markers: I write
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