These 12 tips can help you adjust to a new office or clean up your behavior in a place you’ve worked for years.
These 12 tips can help you adjust to a new office or clean up your behavior in a place you’ve worked for years.
Gone are the days when office etiquette was clearly defined. In today’s relaxed professional environment, conduct is more casual, which means it’s often difficult to know what is OK and what isn’t. Fortunately, some rules of workplace etiquette are universal.
These 12 tips can help you adjust to a new office or clean up your behavior in a place you’ve worked for years.
1. Avoid social media. Unless your job requires you to peruse social networking sites all day, avoid them while you’re on the clock. Though surfing Facebook or Twitter might be tempting, it can be detrimental to your work performance and productivity, not to mention the way your boss perceives your enthusiasm — or lack thereof — for your job.
2. Take that phone call elsewhere. Everyone has a cellphone these days, so getting personal calls at work is pretty much unavoidable. But don’t assume that just because your phone rings, it’s OK to take it right there at your desk. If you get a personal call, excuse yourself and answer it in private. The last thing you want to do is air your personal business.