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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

If you want to have less stress, you need to have more planning, which should encourage you to schedule your activities, track the time taken to complete these activities and then follow up on them to see how it could be done better in the future. Document processes and repetitive tasks, whether they are back office or client facing.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. This includes project management software, communication tools, document sharing platforms, and virtual collaboration tools.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. And yet this message on the costs of lean scheduling fell on deaf ears.

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