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5 Reasons to Attend Your Company Happy Hour

Published on February 20, 2012 in Business Tips. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Working 8 to 10 hours in a big company might be exhausting. That’s why attending a corporate happy hour can offer more benefits than you might realize. It’s an opportunity to meet coworkers on an informal basis, and to chat with people who work in other departments.

Happy hour is intended to be jovial and relaxing and has many other benefits like:

  • Free drinks and treats: How could anyone pass up a free meal and yummy adult beverages? This is probably the most obvious reason (and financial) to attend your companies Happy Hour.
  • Meet New People and Network: This is great chance to branch out and meet other people in your company. Company Happy Hours are popular with most companies so most likely Friday afternoons you will meet people from other companies in different industries. Plus you never know when you could possibly find new business or a new client or know someone who knows someone. So don’t be shy, broaden your horizons and bring lots of business cards.

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What employees expect from 2011

Published on January 7, 2011 in Business Tips and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

There are two ways of starting the New Year. The optimistic way, with enthusiasm about returning to work, or the pessimistic way, with regrets that vacation has ended. I’m curious how many of you hope that 2011 will be a better year, how many put hopes in this New Year and how many of you are skeptic and suspicious about the New Year?

To get an idea regarding expectations for 2011, please take the 2 minutes survey listed below:

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6 tips to make employees happier this Christmas

Published on December 16, 2010 in Business Tips. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Christmas is getting closer and this is the time of the year when we should be happier, more generous and kinder with each other. It doesn’t matter if we are at work, at home or in the bus, we should share affection to receive back affection.

Office is where we spend most of our day. And I particularly love welcoming Christmas in a warm and cozy atmosphere specific to this season.

As an employer you can consider Christmas as a great opportunity to motivate your employees and to prepare them for the New Year coming. There are few things every company should consider during winter season and I will list the ones I consider the most important below:

  1. Decorate employees’ offices. Some Christmas decorations for windows, some tinsel, and globes will bring the specific atmosphere into the office. If you have the possibility you can get a Christmas tree in a pot and in this way you will be able to use it next year also. Continue reading ’6 tips to make employees happier this Christmas’

How much is your employees’ un-productivity cost you?

Published on August 18, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, Employee Monitoring, HowTo, Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

It is proven that there are unproductive employees in almost every company. We will not discuss here about the reasons for this decreased productivity, instead, we will discuss about how Cyclope Employee Surveillance can tell you how exactly the un-productivity of each employee costs you.

It is enough to set the working hour cost of each employee or department, select the currency and here you are. Just look into the un-productivity report and you will find the top of unproductive employees along with the corresponding losses. Now you know how much it costs you the inactivity of each employee and you can easily decide what further actions must be taken. See the video below: Continue reading ‘How much is your employees’ un-productivity cost you?’

Earth Day and Cyclope-Series in 2010

Published on April 22, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, Misc and Print Management. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

One month ago we were starting the Earth Day campaign. During this time we have presented several studies results related to printing activities in companies. These studies aimed to:

  1. inform people about the irresponsible printing acts that occur in almost every company, school or library (up to 30% of print volume is pure waste)
  2. inform people about the dramatic impact excessive printing has over the environment: Here I remind you just 3 of them (of course, there are many other ? here you can read more about them)

    3. a. It takes one 15-year old tree to produce HALF a box of office paper
    b. Nearly 80% of the world?s original old growth forests have been logged or severely degraded
    c. A single mature tree can release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings.

  3. educate people to stop wasting paper and other resources
  4. provide solutions for organizations to manage printing activities.

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Printing facts and print managers’ effects

Published on April 19, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, Misc, Print Management and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Studies estimate that the average commercial employee prints around 10,000 pages per year. Of that print volume, 17% or more is pure waste. That is 1,700 sheets of paper per year that are needlessly printed, resulting in dramatic financial and environmental impact.

Speaking of environmental impact; did you know that:
- It takes 3 tons of wood to produce 1 ton of copy paper
- It takes one 15-year old tree to produce HALF a box of office paper?
- Nearly 80% of the world’s original old growth forests have been logged or severely degraded
- 4281 acres of rainforest are lost every hour worldwide
- 40% of the world’s industrial logging goes into making paper (expected to reach 50% in the near future)
- Worldwide, the pulp and paper industry is the 5th largest industrial consumer of energy.
- Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same amount of energy used by an average household in 10 months)
- A single mature tree can release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings. Continue reading ‘Printing facts and print managers’ effects’

Earth Day 2010-Forest, paper and printing facts

Published on March 30, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, HowTo, Misc and Print Management. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Here you can find a few numbers about forest, paper and printing. There are interesting facts that everybody should consider before hitting the “Print” button. Let’s give a helping hand and let’s save the planet.

If there is something you consider deserves adding, please write them in the comment section below. Thank you :)

Earth Day 2010 coming soon – Go Green with Cyclope-Series

Published on March 24, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, HowTo, Misc, Print Management and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

There is one month left till the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. In this period a wide range of environmental events take place more that the rest of the year. These events are organized by both non-profit organizations and commercial companies which all mean to save the planet and to educate people in this respect.

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Keeping in mind that it takes one 15-year old tree to produce HALF a box of office paper and considering the studies? results that estimate that the average commercial employee prints around 10,000 pages per year Continue reading ‘Earth Day 2010 coming soon – Go Green with Cyclope-Series’

Save school budget by controlling printer’s usage

Published on March 15, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, HowTo, Misc, Print Management and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Many educational institutions have problems in managing their budget. There are so many fields and activities that require significant parts of the budget that schools often face difficult situations when it comes for allocating resources. In this case, reducing cost has become a common issue for schools as well.

First thing to do when improving school budget is desired is to monitor every field and activity and try to reduce corresponding spending. And costs associated with printing activities are a considerable field that can be controlled and where significant funds can be saved.

Let?s face it, if students can print unlimited number of pages (with their favorite music star or their favorite soccer team) they will do it. And when other school activities have to suffer because of budget limitations, this is getting unfair. Continue reading ‘Save school budget by controlling printer’s usage’

Create the Internet Usage Policy within your company with version 4.0 of Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy

Published on February 22, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy FAQ, Internet Filtering, Misc and Product Releases. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Version 4.0 of Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy has just been released. The new version comes both with a new user interface and new reports. One of them is the Overview report added to the statistics section.

At the first run, the overview section will guide the application manager to client configuration, to define the filtering policy and to check statistics. On the normal usage of the application, the overview section? aims to provide application?s manger summary? statistics like? the? number? of? users? currently? using? the? product,? the total amount of traffic that was recorded for the current day and the breaking rules attempts.

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