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Understanding Chinese Overtime: Calculation Methods and Legal Status in the US

Chinese overtime, a term that often perplexes both employers and employees in the United States, refers to a specific method of calculating overtime for non-exempt workers on a fluctuating workweek basis. This article delves into the intricacies of Chinese overtime, exploring its origins, calculation methods, and legal standing within the complex tapestry of US labor laws.

Help Desk for Education - Why You Need One and What to Look For

When thinking of a help desk, the immediate association often leans towards IT teams or businesses dealing with customer inquiries. However, the utility of a help desk goes beyond these realms, proving valuable for any organization handling requests or inquiries. A help desk for education can help streamline requests no matter where the requests come from. In educational institutions, a help desk serves dual purposes.

How to Asana: Post status updates

Have you been pinged for a status update? Before you fire up the spreadsheets and docs, here's how to do it in Asana. Keep your team in the loop with status updates on projects, portfolios, and goals in Asana. Check out this video to learn how to share status updates using real-time data, the latest highlights, and Asana Intelligence. Then see how your meetings can focus on actionable insights instead of long status readouts.

Zoho Projects - The complete project management software

Zoho Projects is an online project management tool that lets you plan, track and collaborate with ease. Effective project management software helps you organize your work, communicate with your team, and achieve your project goals, irrespective of whether you're a team of 5 or 500. Zoho Projects does this and more. It's a hassle-free tool that has a simple, easy-to-use interface, and a mobile application that facilitates your projects from anywhere, at any time. With task and issue management, time tracking, interactive feeds and forums, built-in analytics, document management, and budget tracking, Zoho Projects is the complete cloud-based project management solution.

How to Address Insubordination in the Workplace

Insubordination is a serious workplace issue that occurs when an employee refuses to comply with a direct order from a supervisor or manager. It is a form of defiance and can have negative consequences for both the individual and the organization. Insubordination can manifest in various ways, such as openly challenging authority, refusing to follow established policies or procedures, or displaying a disrespectful attitude towards superiors.

Disengaged employees cost the global economy $7.8 trillion

“Time is money” has never been more true than it is now, in today’s busy business world. While the economy is going through rough patches, business leaders are focusing more and more on one important factor: output. The employee experience, however, is a crucial component of the puzzle that is sometimes missed. Remarkably, only 13% of employees say they are completely satisfied with their jobs.

How to build a best-in-class project intake process

A project intake process is a standardized workflow to help teams capture, prioritize, and follow through on new requests. Learn the components of an effective intake process, and how to build one for your team. Swamped by project requests? Overloaded with last-minute asks? If so, you’re not alone—and we have a solution for you. Enter: the project intake process, a tried-and-true method to prioritize the right work at the right time.

10 Steps to Create an Effective Performance Improvement Plan

Managers holding these difficult conversations should prepare to point to specific instances. Perhaps the employee is not taking certain responsibilities seriously. Perhaps they consistently miss important deadlines and don’t seem to be making any effort to improve. Whatever the problem, employers may be able to use performance management software to identify a pattern and not just a single occasion. Has the employee already been asked to fix this problem?

The transformative role of Generative AI in managing remote teams

The unprecedented rise in remote work presents plenty of opportunities and challenges for organizations. While businesses being tied to physical locations no longer limits the talent pools from which they can draw, enabling effective communication and collaboration across dispersed teams is no simple task. Fortunately, it is a challenge with no end of possible solutions – some of which work better than others.