No love in the office: why is it so hard to make friends at a new job?

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I've never had a hard time making friends. In every school, club, or team I've been a part of, I always found at least a couple of people to hang out with. Not so at my new job. Interactions with others mostly center around my tasks at work, like mail or phone messages. Sometimes I will ask...

5 easy steps to de-clutter your desk

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You’ll likely spend more time scavenging your desk for paperwork than on vacation this year. In fact, the average executive pilfers six weeks a year searching for important documents buried in clutter, according to the Wall Street Journal. Simple tidying could avoid that kind of egregious waste of time and productivity. One useful tip: color-code hanging files to distinguish between different types of files—such as project or client folders--just by glancing it them, advises Donna Smallin, author of The One Minute Organizer Plain and Simple. Quit frittering away your valuable time with Smallin’s top five tips for de-cluttering your desk.

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No love in the office: why is it so hard to make friends at a new job?

5 easy steps to de-clutter your desk