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Matt Zajechowski

Matt Zajechowski is the Senior Outreach Manager at Digital Third Coast. Connect with him on Twitter (MattZajechowski)
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Matt Zajechowski

Matt Zajechowski is the Senior Outreach Manager at Digital Third Coast. Connect with him on Twitter (MattZajechowski)
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America’s Relationship with Work Email

We surveyed one thousand people who consider email significant to their work, to find out which parts of the country have the busiest professionals. Americans differ when it comes to the rate at which they check work email. Thirty percent have their email open constantly, 54 percent check their email multiple times per day, and just 16 percent check their email once a day or less. Thirty-seven percent of workers in the Northeast report their email is constantly open in front of them at work, and 31 percent from the West say the same—these two regions are both above the national

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Teen workforce

Teen Dreams VS Workforce Realities

Astronaut. Teacher. Ballerina. Doctor. Singer. Few people say “I want to grow up and work in an office,” yet 15 percent of Americans have office/administrative jobs (the largest of 22 segments of the U.S. labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). The question is–how much disparity exists between the jobs we dream of and the jobs we’ll most likely get? We polled more than 400 teenagers to find out. Perhaps it’s no surprise that 20 percent of teens who responded said they want to be involved in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations. Jobs in those fields not

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New Data on Impact of Office Design and Décor

We’ve known about the importance of work environments for some time now. In a 2003 survey by Management Today, 97 percent of respondents said they regard their workplace as a symbol of whether or not they are valued by their employer. While this shouldn’t come as a surprise, there’s a disheartening new layer to the story. According to data we compiled from a recent survey of 1,000 Americans who work in traditional office environments (no freelancers, retailers or astronauts), many employers fail to create inspiring, uplifting work environments. In many cases, employers aren’t taking care of basic elements that most people

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America’s Relationship With Work Email

We surveyed one thousand people who consider email significant to their work, to find out which parts of the country have the busiest professionals. Americans differ when it comes to the rate at which they check work email. Thirty percent have their email open constantly, 54 percent check their email multiple times per day, and just 16 percent check their email once a day or less. Thirty-seven percent of workers in the Northeast report their email is constantly open in front of them at work, and 31 percent from the West say the same—these two regions are both above the national

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What Happened to the Lunch Hour?

We often refer to the midday work break as the “lunch hour,” but our recent survey of 500 American workers shows not many people are taking advantage of that full hour anymore. So what has the workday lunch in America become? Our data uncovered some surprising trends, habits, and economics. Industries with the longest lunch breaks include media and communications, insurance, and legal services, all averaging over 50 minutes per day. Workers in construction, healthcare, and food and beverage report the shortest lunch breaks, with food and beverage workers reporting an average of just over 30 minutes. The survey also found

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How Are Multitasking Millennials Impacting Today’s Workplace?

Many business leaders still think of multitasking as a great thing, clinging to visions of employees who get more done than ever before. And, they think, there’s no generation better equipped to juggle multiple tasks than people in the 18 to 34-year-old age group, commonly known as Millennials. And it’s true, Millennials are known for being adept with all forms of technology and moving from one job to another, shifting between priorities with relative ease. Unfortunately, the latest research conducted in the fields of psychology and business productivity suggests we’ve got it all wrong. Multitasking doesn’t always live up to the dream. Instead,

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Workplace Stress—What’s Your Level?

Can a 100-year-old experiment in stress teach us about today’s workplace productivity? In 1908, psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson described an experiment in which they were able to motivate rats through a maze using mild electrical shocks. They found that if the shocks were too strong, the rats would lose their motivation to complete the maze and instead move about randomly trying to escape. Yerkes and Dodson concluded that increasing stress and arousal levels could help to focus motivation and attention onto a particular task, but only up to a certain point—then it became ineffective. In modern psychology, this

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