Each week, I contribute dozens of articles on the workplace, fitness and productivity to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. * Measure Your Personal Productivity Quotient With David Allen's GTD-Q Test [PayScale] * Does Your Resume Include These 10 No-Nos? [PayScale] * To Succeed,...
This week's Avant-Garde Offices star is enterprise software company Box, formerly known as Box.net. It was less than a year and a half ago when Box had just 125 employees. Cut to May of 2012 and the company has grown to a team of 400. Naturally, this meant a...
Each week, I contribute dozens of articles on office life to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. * What Countries Have the Longest Average Working Hours? [PayScale] * How Does Office Design Influence Productivity? [infographic] [PayScale] * HP Lays Off 27,000 Employees in...
There's been a lot of negative buzz about the distractions and productivity losses open-plan offices enable, and software company Autodesk may have found the ideal solution by piping in pink noise. The sound is the same frequency as human voices, enabling employees to tune out their coworkers' conversations and get...
The Smoffice, this week's Avant-Garde Offices star, is an itty-bitty workspace about the size of a bathroom. The office was created as a part of Durham, North Carolina's Smoffice contest, which aims to "highlight the importance of the coffee shop in the entrepreneurial world," as Chamber of Commerce startup strategist...
Most of us have had that feeling of being watched; for employees at Evernote, the star of this week's Avant-Garde Offices, that feeling is a reality. Business Insider took a tour of the Evernote office, discovering that founder Phil Libin has an actual robot that can chat with his employees...
