#office work

[macmanx]

Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren’t ready for the serious problems that would result.

Meanwhile, a staggering 76% of employees stand ready to jump ship if their companies decide to pull the plug on flexible work schedules, according to the Greenhouse report. Moreover, employees from historically underrepresented groups are 22% more likely to consider other options if flexibility comes to an end.

#workers #labor #office work #remote work #distributed work

[chechula]

Another manga doodle by me!

you can read it here This tired lady was drawn extra quickly, a few days before the contest deadline x_x (but it made its way into contest finalist o_o)

#manga #comic #mountains #office work

[copperbadge]

Hi, I have started a new office job! It's good, I like the people I work with and the work itself but it's sooo different from what I'm used to? I don't always feel I have enough to do, which is partly b/c of the time of year and cause I'm still new, only 30 days, but is this normal-ish? I am trying to be self directed and going thru my responsibilities but somedays, there's just not a lot? Have you ever found that in any of your jobs?

Yeah, a lot of office jobs are like this -- mine have almost all had a great deal of empty space in them. It's not universal for sure, but it's not at all unusual. The only time I've had an office job where I really didn't have any time free during the average week was right at the end of my last job when we were heavily downstaffed and I was doing about three peoples' worth of jobs. Even then, my schedule had some flex to it.

Especially as a newbie you're going to have a lot of downtime because people are giving you time to settle in, or they're trying to work out what they can assign to you, or they're waiting until you're fully trained to start assigning you more responsibility. And you may have less work at this time of year because a lot of people are out of office or for other reasons (this is actually a busy time for me and my crew, because we get a lot of end-of-year donations, but a ton of nonprofit work is backwards to the rhythms of normal for-profit office work).

I recommend never, ever telling anyone at work that you are not busy, however. For one, most people in any given office know that we aren't working at 100% for 100% of the time, because if we were we'd all be exhausted. Two, it means you'll be given more work. :D Which, okay, some of that is "Why work when you don't have to" but some of it is also that it is GOOD to have slack built into your schedule. It means you can ramp up when needed, and also that you get periods of brain rest, and also that you have time to work on independent projects should you wish, whether those are for work or, say, fanfic. I actually at this point tend to lower expectations by waiting to submit work -- I'll finish a project a day early and submit it the day it's due regardless.

In one job, I had to process documents being converted from PDF to Word, then pass them on to our proofer; he could only proof about four documents a day, but I could process about 20. So on Monday I'd process all 20 documents, and send him four of them -- and the rest of the week I'd send him four a day, and write fanfic for hours on end. Occasionally they gave me other jobs to do, but at that job I was essentially paid full time to work one day a week and show up to do nothing the other four.

The average office worker only works four hours a day. In some jobs I've literally booked out those four hours and fucked around the rest of the time. When I needed to, I'd break into Fuck Around Time in order to do more work, but otherwise -- they're paying me for results, not for sweat. As a front-desk receptionist it was baked in, actually; they said to me "There's going to be long periods of time where you are doing nothing. Your job at those times is to entertain yourself in ways that don't make it look like you're goofing off if someone important walks in." I wrote a lot of fanfic and novels, read a lot of books, did a shitload of origami. I loved that job; if it paid better I probably never would have left it.

Eventually, too, you will learn the rhythms of your job and workplace, and figure out when you're most likely to have empty time, so that you can build around it. For instance, on Fridays I get a data document that I have to evaluate and present to my colleagues the following Wednesday. Friday and Monday are therefore my busy days; Tuesday and Wednesday are for work I might have put off during the busy days. Thursday is generally just an open day; I can do long-term work projects, or I can spend the whole day dicking around. If a rush job comes in, I can push work into Thursday to get the rush job done, regardless of when it arrives.

In any case, you have a couple of options for continuing to look busy even when you aren't. If you can read on a computer screen, queue up some books or fanfic (be careful what you access on company internet, of course; I have more free range than most and am not monitored because my job is researched-based and I have to go to some weird shit places). Read newspapers you might have access to, or work on your own writing/creative endeavors on cloud-based apps. A couple of times a year I'd dedicate the empty space in a week to going through old files and organizing them, or cleaning out my email inboxes.

You can also, if you desire, work on independent projects for your actual employer. In my spare time I've built several tools to make my life easier, some of which I've shown to my bosses to impress them. Some just make my work go faster and my bosses don't know that, and don't have to. Again: they are paying for results, not for me to sit there like a booby doing work I don't have to do. If there are ways to streamline processes, you can use the time to think about implementing them (although ask other people they may impact, first). The other day I was giving a mailing list one last scroll-through before sending it to my boss, and idly realized there was a fantastic opportunity to do a little data visualization, so I whipped that up and added it to the email I was sending, like "Hey I also noticed this, see what you think."

For a while, in my last job, I had enough lee time in my schedule that most days I could work my second job as a transcriptionist while at my primary job. That can get perilous and I don't recommend it, but it can be done...

Anyway, be at ease, this is supposed to be the case and it's a great bonus when it actually does happen :D Do your work competently and efficiently and don't worry too much about the empty spots, just take breaks and keep yourself entertained.

#sam works #office work

[thoughtportal]

internet history: de motivational posters

{watch}

Looks like Despair Inc. is still a thing.

#tiktok #memes #capitalism is a scam #office work #1990s #1980s #workers #labor vs capital #despair inc #meme history #meme #workers vs capital #new age

[cannibalgh0st]

I also wish I could stay home and watch cartoons instead of working 😐😐😐

#meh #cartoons #cartoon network #toons #i do not want to work #2023 #office work #October #sharing time

[businessmemes]

clean cuticles are the fleshy mortar between the bricks of business.

#business #businesscore #business memes #nostalgia #office space #vaporwave #retro #memes #90s #90s aesthetic #90s nostalgia #this is business #nails #cuticles #manicure #office work #office worker #business fashion

[thenib]

Niccolo Pizarro.

#niccolo pizarro #work #remote work #office work

[wonbinisbabygurl]

Just because you like to sleep and work and go home on the weekend does not make you a boring person you just care about your mental health which should always come first

(Reblogging is allowed lovies 😊❤️)

#mentalheathawareness #stress #office work #mentalhealthneedstobeaknowlegedmoreintheblackcommunity

[penig]

This point got buried in more important matters on the 29th, but I would just like to say that Dr. Seward’s being so enamored of keeping his case notes and journal on the brand newest shiny tech (wax cylinder recordings) that he never once thought about how he was going to find any information he wanted in the future is exactly what every boss I’ve ever worked under has been like.

We can neither estimate nor comprehend the amount of time that admin workers spend each year patiently trying to make bosses, and in many cases workers outside the office, understand that the reason to keep records is so that you can retrieve information from them, often years later, and that in order to do that they need to be organized, and kept organized, in such a way that any user can find what they want in it. In the case of a patient like Renfield, who is a danger to himself and others, and also intelligent within the limits of his illness, the need to do so quickly may arise at any time. Since the need may stem directly from his having murdered his psychiatrist, it wouldn’t have been enough for Seward to be able to go to any desired place on the cylinders himself (had that even been possible); his staff, law enforcement, and his successor may any of them desperately need to know the details of the case, and need them now. This is why, once dictation technology became common, the standard office protocol was for the recordings to be turned over to the staff by the end of the day, so the staff could transcribe them and the recording medium erased and reused while the notes were filed and either put away or passed on to the person who was in immediate need of them.

I am reminded of the boss who wanted to copy forty years worth of files to CD and dump the hard copy as soon as we got the tech, and who was frustrated by my insistence on making a database and entering into it the pertinent data from each file as it was copied, so that we could look up where  on which CD it was. Much of it could have been dumped entirely a long time before, obviously, but she’d never heard of a retention date and wanted to have all the information and the space it took up, too, and she didn’t want to wait while I fit it in around my other work and she wouldn’t hire a temp. So she just had to deal while I got the desired result together over the course of time.

And then there was the professor, organizing for the department to move offices, who told the office manager: Okay, so, the stuff on the chairs? That’s current.

I hope that, once the dust settles and life returns to normal, or whatever passes for normal in a Victorian mental health facility, Seward retains his revelation about what case notes are for, and  hires some admin staff. But I wouldn’t bet any money on it, unless Mina reminds him.

#dracula daily #office work

[kyroki]

Sometimes i receive a certain kind of email response at work, and all i want to do is send them back that like, sims negative relationship icon and nothing else

Like i receive you less favorably now, get out of my inbox.

#office work #is fun like that #kyroki grumbles #emails #all day everyday i am haunted

[wearedeadfancy]

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#office work #office humor #work humor #work memes #funny #anti work #work reform #funny stickers #stickers #funny quotes #i hate it here #i hate this #gift ideas #gifts for coworkers #gifts for colleagues #office memes #cute #cute stickers #funny gifts #gift shop #quotes #memes #lol

[breelandwalker]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but literally the only people who like open-concept office spaces are overbearing managers who don't give a shit about the needs of neurodivergent employees, don't believe that workers deserve even the slightest amount of personalization or comfort in the place where they have to spend 40+ hours every week, and want to create a culture of class divide between admins and supervisors in the workplace.

This goes double for management that puts the admin staff in big open spaces with little to no division between personal workspaces and everyone in a supervisory position behind a door.

#office work #fuck open concept offices they are thieves of joy #and if people are on the phones all day and need to concentrate wtf are we supposed to do with no noise-cancelling barriers?

[cannibalgh0st]

Thank GAWD I made it back home- today nobody was bad to me...my co-workers and patients were chill for the most part...it was just the amount of office and computer work today that drove me NUTS....the dam telephones wouldn't stop ringing....!!!😶👁👁

#office work #medical office #full time work #full time jobs #work #job #ugh #computer work #2023 #November

[curatorsday]

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Today’s antiquated office tool is the IDL Junior Moistener. This little ceramic box and roller is used to moisten envelopes and stamps (before self adhesive stamps were a thing). You pour water in the reservoir below the roller and just slide the envelope along it to moisten. No muss, no fuss.

#cemetery #office work #mailing #envelope #vintage #junior moistener

[persephinae]

hey just a reminder for anyone else that works in an office (I can’t speak for other jobs) but use inflation calculators to see if you’re getting paid fairly 

(I mean you’re not lol)

but a lot of times whoever determines salary is probably basing the salary on what was good 20 or 30 years ago

so to them $30k - $35k might sound reasonable since that was a good salary 20 or 30 years ago

but if you pop that in over in the inflation calculator:

$30k is equal to what $17.5k was 20 years ago

and if you want what $30k would truly be worth in today’s money, that would be:

around $50k

Please use this because most of the CEO’s that determine wages are all boomers and they think office workers should magically all be $30k when that ain’t shit in today’s economy

if you can please look else where and KNOW YOUR WORTH

YOU’RE WORTH WAY MORE THAN WHAT THEY PAY YOU

*please note these examples are from my experience in Ohio/Midwest where cost of living is cheaper than coastal cities (but 30k is legit still shit in the midwest)

#employment #office work #salary inflation