Energy Conservation begins at home! Not really. Rather, it begins at office. There are quite a few who would agree with me and a lot who would disagree. But the fact of the matter remains that out of my productive 16 hours of life, I spend 8 hours in the office, 2-3 hours travelling, 1 hour in parties and other social gatherings. So that means that I am at home for only 4 hours everyday.
With the advent of millennium offices, the opportunity to conserve energy has increased manifold and it becomes even more obvious that energy conservation begins from office.
A few days back I had to stay back at office and work late due to some urgent assignment....
Emails!!! In this century, people, office and organizations are connected through mails. This is the century where mails are preferred much more than a verbal conversation. Why? Because these mails can later be used as a proof of the conversation.
The days of the office memo are gone. You do not sign on those circulars that the office boys circulate in departments seeking the signature of everybody reading it. Today it is the electronic signature that is important and it is a valid enough evidence that you have read a circular.
This is a series that I am starting today on professional email etiquettes. This series would cover everything that is important when you write a professional email – the...
Social Networking…Does that term sound familiar? No question of an unfamiliarity, right?
If you are still not aware of what a social networking site is, then let me tell you that everything starting from Facebook, LinkedIn to Twitter can be called a social networking site. These are basically sites that help you network with other people and build a network.
How often have you been using a social networking site at your workplace?
Social Networking sites have become a menace to any workplace. But if you are an employee, I am sure that this statement would have created a frown on your face. My intention is not to do that, rather it is just to initiate a discussion around the...
The BPO and Call center culture has brought about quite a lot of changes – some positive and some negative. Though critics and well-wishers are right in saying that there the changes are more of negative, especially in India, there would be no denying the fact that there a lot of changes that are positive as well.
One such welcome change was the tobacco-free revolution that brought about a change in the smoking habits of quite a few BPO employees. Smoking had become a fashion statement for these employees working in BPOs, majority of them youth. What started as a reason to stay awake in the night shifts that, they had to work in, soon became an addiction that was...
