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Monthly Archives: March 2020
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March 28, 2020
In this article, we’ve pulled together the top 10 screencasting apps for teachers, rated and ranked by thousands of educators, experts, and tech reviewers. Our top pick is the feature-rich, low-cost Screencast-O-Matic for its versatility, ease of entry, and seamless screencast Google Classroom integration.
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March 27, 2020Most home offices are littered with ergonomics errors, which can impair productivity and health, and cost you money. Here’s how to set up work environments that won’t sacrifice comfort, efficiency or health.When working from home, it’s tempting to jump on a laptop and toil away in your favorite easy chair. The problem is, if you don’t treat digital work as a form of manual labor, your neck, back, arms or wrists will eventually exact their revenge.
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March 27, 2020Most home offices are littered with ergonomics errors, which can impair productivity and health, and cost you money. Here’s how to set up work environments that won’t sacrifice comfort, efficiency or health. When working from home, it’s tempting to jump on a laptop and toil away in your favorite easy chair. The problem is, if you don’t treat digital work as a form of manual labor, your neck, back, arms or wrists will eventually exact their revenge. Some 1.8 million workers suffer every year from repetitive strain injuries (RSI), which have surged in the last quarter century. These conditions can range from irritating to debilitating. (ever try opening a door with a carpal tunnel flare-up?) A company whose workers accumulate on-the-job injuries face higher workers’ compensation premiums, not to mention lost time and productivity. In fact, employers already pay $1 billion every week toward direct workers’ comp costs, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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March 26, 2020
Stay productive anywhere
Just because you’re working from home doesn’t mean you can’t still use the best technology. Fortunately, the latest laptop PCs continue to add extraordinary capabilities to help small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operate more efficiently and grow.
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March 26, 2020Just because you’re working from home doesn’t mean you can’t still use the best technology. Fortunately, the latest laptop PCs continue to add extraordinary capabilities to help small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operate more efficiently and grow.
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March 25, 2020Even before the latest headlines changed the telecommuting landscape, working remotely has been appealing for a lot of reasons: You don’t have a soul-sucking commute, you’re in charge of your daily routine, and you can work for a company you love that just happens to be in a different city. (If you’re a remote worker in Vermont you can even get a cash bonus for being so awesome.)
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March 24, 2020
Working remotely? Try these helpful tools
We have entered into a nationwide work-from-home experiment. Because of these events, major tech players such as LinkedIn and Twitter (as well as many other tech-oriented businesses) have mandated that workers stay home, conduct meetings and job interviews by video, and halt business travel for the foreseeable future.
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March 24, 2020We have entered into a nationwide work-from-home experiment. Because of these events, major tech players such as LinkedIn and Twitter (as well as many other tech-oriented businesses) have mandated that workers stay home, conduct meetings and job interviews by video, and halt business travel for the foreseeable future. Even if you’ve worked from home occasionally in the past, being forced to telecommute every day may require you to change some of your day-to-day habits to get work done. Fortunately, there are dozens of apps on the market designed to help you be more productive. Let’s take a look at three important areas of productivity (collaboration, note-taking, and efficiency boosters) that’ll improve your workflow out of your home office.
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March 23, 2020
If your business, like so many others, is facing an extended work from home policy for the near future, it’s important to do an immediate checkup of your Windows 10 PCs before your staff disperses to their home offices.
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March 23, 2020If your business, like so many others, is facing an extended work from home policy for the near future, it’s important to do an immediate checkup of your Windows 10 PCs before your staff disperses to their home offices. Studies show that using outdated or inadequately maintained PCs can be serious productivity killers, whereas more modern and capable systems can help workers do much better jobs whether they’re in or out of the office.