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Display advertising is one of the most effective forms of advertising in the world, making up more than half of global digital ad spend. While they typically generate a much lower click rate on average than search or other forms of advertising, display ads cannot be beaten for cost-effective, targeted brand awareness.

When choosing an ad network for display ads, many marketers default to the Google Display Network without much consideration for other platforms. Google is a titan in many arenas and can undoubtedly provide adequate service, but there are several other networks worth investigating if you’re in the market for unique targeting and specific types of display advertising. Choosing a specialized ad network can improve the results of your campaigns.

It’s also important to note that many display networks contain fraudulent traffic (e.g. bot traffic) to help boost their network’s reach and sales potential. While Google Ads attempts to combat this problem by providing “invalid” click data in their campaign reports, most others in the space do not. As a result, some advertisers choose to use third-party click fraud prevention software to help mitigate any bot traffic and improve their campaign performance. Ultimately, advertisers just need to be aware of the issue and take precautions in the display ad space.

ZeroPark

ZeroPark started years ago with a focus on domain redirects, a ground-breaking idea at the time. This is where advertisers access parked domain names that have existing traffic, such as URL misspellings, and redirect them to their own websites. Since then they’ve expanded into push notifications, keyword-based pop-ups and pop-unders and more. Due to the nature and affordable cost of their platform, it’s more suited for performance advertisers than brand-focused ones.

Propel Media

Propel Media, formerly TrafficVance and futureads, is a unique platform that targets sites with a high-conversion audience with contextual and display advertising powered by proprietary, intent-based technology. That means consumers receive messages at a stage in their customer journey that indicates a likelihood to respond.

Propel offers a self-serve platform where buyers can edit and optimize campaigns without the need for a representative. However, like many other alternative display platforms, there is often very little transparency with where your ads are running and sites are often obfuscated with an ID-based system.

AdRoll

AdRoll is one of the more popular networks on this list, however, it’s often overlooked and has many features advertisers forget.

They focus on re-marketing, a process where consumers visit an advertiser’s website and then leave without making a purchase. From there, AdRoll’s engine and expansive network target users across the web, social media, in dedicated emails, and more.

AdRoll was originally designed for publishers and buyers who don’t have access to infinite resources and advertising budgets, giving them a reliable and effective network through which to compete with household brands.

Now it’s grown to one of the biggest networks with the best reputations as their site claims its customers make over $165 billion in sales every year.

Adblade

Adblade largely focuses on native ads, but they’ve expanded their services recently.

Native ads are ads that promote an advertiser’s articles and other pieces of content. However, they toe the line with traditional content as it is, in fact, “sponsored” content. You typically see them at the bottom of articles on news sites labeled as “Articles you may also like.”

Adblade is a much smaller network, only supporting about 1,000 current customers, but they admittedly focus on quality over quantity of ads. They also offer their proprietary NewsBullets units that claim to achieve three times the engagement rate of traditional display ads thanks to their format and placement. Adblade does have a minimum traffic requirement for publishers of 500,000 monthly impressions.

LiveIntent

LiveIntent is a unique ad network in that it operates primarily by placing an advertiser’s banner ads inside the emails of its clients. Typically this requires a large amount of coordination but LiveIntent manages to provide a self-serve platform that offers scale and speed.

Email is one of the most powerful marketing methods due to its personalization capability, high user stickiness, large ad space, and largely uninvasive approach. Open rates are much higher than traditional display ads too (around 25%) so LiveIntent is worth testing for any advertiser.

Reddit Ads

Reddit is an often overlooked platform since it’s not as flashy as new social media channels, so their ads channel can be highly affordable relative to those newer ones.

Reddit Ads allows advertisers to share their message with a laser-targeted audience that is actively immersed in relevant content. Many Redditors consult Reddit while investigating a problem or researching solutions, so it can be an opportune time for ad buyers to present a satisfactory answer to their questions.

Reddit Ads can also generate conversation around a specified talking point, which can be excellent for brand awareness and recognition. A centralized dashboard displays metrics for real-time campaign performance optimization.

Verizon Media

To this day, many people forget about Yahoo. Their ad platform was bought out by Verizon Media and it’s now largely focused on native ad offerings. Their platform has very robust targeting capabilities since they have access to Verizon’s database and, similar to other platforms on this list, their lack of popularity keeps prices relatively low compared to big players such as Google, Amazon and Bing.

Media.net

Many people have forgotten about Media.net over the years, but their ad platform still remains a powerful force with big partnerships with Forbes, WebMD, CNN, Better Homes & Gardens, USA Today and others. They use advanced advertising technology, like contextual ads, their Market Place, and programmatic display ads, to boost monetization. Users have exclusive access to Bing search demand and cross-format header bidding on a server-side enabled platform.

Types of ad space listed on Media.net include contextual ads related to the surrounding content, display ads that deliver promotional information and brand awareness, and native ads that leverage the authority and credibility of the host. There is no minimum traffic requirement to publish with Media.net.

Infolinks

Lastly, we have Infolinks. Infolinks creates an overlay that converts standard text on a user’s computer into clickable links. Advertisers simply buy keywords they want to target and Infolinks then adds the overlays throughout a user’s online surfing experience. These advanced ads create less of an intrusive feeling so that the ads can be more readily accepted. However, it’s important to note that users need to install a script on their computer in order for Infolinks to serve these types of ads on their computer. How they convince the users to do so can be controversial so I’ll leave that for another discussion. What’s important is that the text links appear organically on the user’s computer and can be extremely effective and affordable for advertisers.

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Your corporate social responsibility refers to the things you do and don’t do, the initiatives you support and how you do business on a daily basis. Typically, a company will set aside a page on its corporate website that goes into detail on corporate social responsibility, as well as outline it in investor presentations and annual general meeting documents.

Companies that don’t just pay lip service to CSR, but go out of their way to take it seriously can expect to enjoy favourable press and positive brand mentions as well as an increasingly large share of the socially conscious consumer market. Below are some of the ways you can add to your CSR today.

Green Banking

One of the easiest things you can do today that will have an outsized impact on your corporate social responsibility is to evaluate who you bank with. How and where you manage your finances can have a significant, though indirect impact on things like your carbon footprint and commitment to conservation. Banks have varying records on things like environmental destruction and protection through the kinds of companies they invest in or divest from.

Many banks and financial institutions are beginning to realize they have an important role to play in humanity’s fight against climate change and more sustainable living on the planet in general, and by choosing to keep your money with these institutions over more careless ones, you throw in with the group that is trying to make a difference.

Employee Benefits and Subsidies

If you have full-time employees, consider adding subsidies for greener transportation to their benefits package. This includes things like covering the cost of bicycles, e-bikes, e-scooters and even incentivizing the use of public transportation by covering some or all of the cost of a monthly bus or rapid transit pass. Our commutes have a measurable impact on global carbon emissions, and many people are likely willing to change their transportation habits if there is a financial incentive to do so.

Green Data Storage

Data centres are responsible for around 0.3% of global carbon emissions, which may not sound like much, but we are becoming a more data-hungry society every year. Green data storage means a few things. It means migrating to the cloud so that data use can be more easily scaled and controlled. It means running workloads in different time zones around the world so that servers aren’t running 24 hours a day. And it involves looking for storage and colocation centres that source some or all of their energy from sustainable or renewable sources.

Conclusion

Your corporate social responsibility matters, both intrinsically and because we are approaching a critical mass of socially and environmentally conscious consumers who expect the companies they do business with to care more. You can start off small with your CSR and build on, making changes when and where possible. There are all kinds of incentives for businesses to pay more attention to how they impact the world around them and simple things you can do starting today to help add real moral weight to your corporate social responsibility statement. Above are three such things to consider.

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Sadly, being overwhelmed at work has become commonplace in many industries in the United States, with an astounding 83% of US workers reporting that they are suffering from work-related stress. The US has been deemed the most overworked developed nation on the planet.^[1]

Some of you are nodding your head knowingly, while others might be doing a questioning head tilt right now. Here’s the deal—data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that the average productivity of American workers has increased since 1950.^[2] Unfortunately, since that time real wages have remained largely unchanged (adjusted for cost of living and inflation), meaning that to earn the same amount that we did in 1950, we have to work approximately an extra 11 hours each week—and an unthinkable 572 hours a year. Sounds a little bit stressful, isn’t it?

To put things into perspective, here are a few statistics to chew on:^[3]

• People are so overwhelmed at work that it’s costing American companies over 300 billion dollars a year and over $190 billion in healthcare costs.^[4] This is partly because feeling overwhelmed at work manifests itself in increased sick days, decreased productivity, poor mental and physical health, more errors on the job, and increased turnover.
• Moreover, stress at work is not just costing us money but also our lives. With a staggering 120,000 deaths annually attributed to work stress, something needs to change.

If the external demands are not enough to raise your blood pressure, we are also unwittingly making our situations more challenging by perpetuating an ideology that would stress out even the coolest cucumber. Let me explain.

The idea that’s been drilled into us for most of our American lives has been this: hard work and working hard is to be admired while admitting something is too much is being a lazy wimp. This underlying attitude we’ve all been spoon-fed with is called Internalized Capitalism. According to Anders Hayden, a political science professor at Dal Housie University in Nova Scotia,^[5]

“Internalized capitalism is this idea that our self-worth is directly linked to our productivity.”

Someone struggling with internalized capitalism might look like any or all of the following:

• Putting work before their health and well-being
• Feeling guilty when resting or participating in a leisure activity
• Feeling lazy and/or anxious when sick, hurt, or otherwise dealing with personal or physical adversity that delays them from doing their job
• Feeling that whatever they do it’s never enough.

Now, don’t get me wrong, it is admirable to be a hard worker. But here’s the caveat—when our self-worth and lives suffer because of the overwhelming and relentless demand for productivity, profit, and performance, we need to start reconsidering what’s going on. And here’s the real kicker: this attitude plays right into the hands of the few who are profiting from the many. It’s almost like we have been brainwashed to police ourselves against our self-interest.

Now that we are all on the same page about how we got here, the question is this: How can we overcome a difficult system and dysfunctional thinking?

Honestly, we didn’t get here overnight, and there is not a magic wand to wave that will change things for the better instantly. True change will occur with a blend of systemic and individual tweaks—or overhauls. Okay, it’s really “overhauls” that we need, but I didn’t want to scare anyone so I said “tweaks.”

Let’s start by taking a look at some of the solutions and changes we can make as individuals. Let’s just be frank and put it out there that these problems won’t be fixed only by reminding people to take better care of themselves. Taking personal responsibility for your self-care is part of it, yes, but this runs much deeper than that. We are talking about undoing deeply held beliefs that govern our self-esteem and self-worth.

1. Process Your Emotions

“So, if you’re mad, get mad!” Isn’t that how the song goes? (I’ll Stand by You by the Pretenders.) Finding healthy outlets for our emotions is a key aspect of processing and being able to truly move on.

“Name it to tame it,” is a phrase coined by Dr. Dan Siegel about the power of labeling an emotion to reduce its impact. Examples of this could be journaling or talking things out with someone. Honestly, this step really needs to come first as it is extremely difficult to think clearly when we are feeling very emotional.^[6]

2. Be Aware of Negative and Judgmental Self-Talk

Are you staying late at the office and missing time with friends (or your dog) because your internal critic is telling you that if you don’t get this project done, you are a lazy, underperforming blob of an employee? This type of self-talk is not productive or healthy.

You can overcome this by becoming aware of the story you are telling yourself and the judgment that accompanies it. This is the most important step by far. These stories and criticisms we tell ourselves that keep us working crazy hours and provoke toxic anxiety are the same cockamamie stories that prevent us from taking the time we need to take care of ourselves.

3. Question Your Beliefs

Once you notice the narrative you are telling yourself, take a step back and try to see it for what it is. “Is this really true? Why do I believe that? Is there any evidence to the contrary?”

4. Make New Beliefs

Rewrite your story with what feels right to you. Luckily, we are our own authors, and we get to choose the things we tell ourselves. It doesn’t sound like much, but the power of perspective and authentic positive thinking can be monumental. It’s healthy to evaluate our internal beliefs and self-talk from time to time.

5. Be Clear on What You Want

Be clear on what you want and how you’d like things to be different. Do I want to work a zillion hours a week and then be too tired/anxious/grumpy to do anything else in my life? What are my priorities and does my situation now reflect that?

6. Talk to Your Supervisor

Talk to your supervisor to clarify expectations. Are you holding yourself to implied or self-imposed expectations? Or have they explicitly been set by your employer?

7. Have a Solid Support System

Having a solid support system helps prevent you from being overwhelmed by work anxiety. They can be your friends, family, life coach, psychologist, teammates, social groups—whoever feels supportive, positive, and encouraging.

8. Brutally Assess What You Can and Can’t Control.

This step is important as it dictates the actions you have to choose to move forward. I used to wish I would win the lottery, but the time and energy spent on that didn’t get me anywhere. Changing my work hours, taking some classes, and cutting back some expenses did.

9. Develop an Action Plan

Develop an action plan based on your findings in #8. It’s not all going to change at once. Start with one small thing, and keep chipping away until you get wherever you want to go.

10. Talk to Your Supervisor

Talk to your supervisor or someone from HR about your concerns and struggles. Find out about your options and any assistance they may be able to offer.

11. Set Boundaries and Limitations.

Just because you can work from home and check your email at 2 am doesn’t mean that you should. Learn to set your boundaries. Limit digital contact. Limit work to work hours and stick to it.

12. Complete One Thing at a Time

We are only neurologically capable of doing one thing at a time. Multitasking is a myth and, when attempted, has been shown to take up to 40% longer to complete a task.^[7] Don’t waste your precious time and energy doing many things at once. Instead, focus on one task at a time.

13. Be Organized and Timely But Also Realistic

Don’t set yourself up for increased stress and overwhelming work anxiety by putting an unreasonable amount of things on your “to-do” list over a short period of time. Prioritize what needs to be done, and set realistic time frames for completion.

14. Good Enough Is Sometimes Good Enough

Don’t get bogged down in the minutia and cost yourself hours of needless work by re-reading an email 14 times before sending it. Read through it twice and hit send.

15. Don’t Compare Yourself to Others

There is a saying I like: “Comparison is the thief of happiness.” I have no idea who originally said it, but they are brilliant, and most of all, correct. Wasting time and energy comparing ourselves never leads us to a good place. Instead, ask yourself if you are doing the best you can given your own set of circumstances.

16. Take Time to Fill Your Tank

Meditation, yoga, quiet time, exercise, breaks, breathing, quality sleep, good nutrition, and hydration—just to name a few—are all scientifically proven ways to reduce our internal stress and better manage our energy.^[8] On top of good self-care habits, taking the time to do whatever it is that fills your individual tank is crucial to feeling less overwhelmed with work anxiety. I frequently ask my clients which car will make it on a cross-country trip: the car you stop and put gas in, checking the oil and tires intermittently, or the car that you just keep driving?

17. Reframing/Changing Perspective

We all get caught in the habit of seeing things from only one perspective. A friend of mine used to always tell me, “there are three sides to every story: yours, theirs and something in the middle.” She was right, and honestly, there are many more sides than that.

Critical coaching moment here: Take a step back and try to think outside the box to see the vast expanse of options available to you. Try not to discount them right off the bat as they might not readily fit into the narrow view or expectation that you previously held. Allow your mind to run free, be creative, and find solutions.

What Organizations Can Do About It

As we mentioned earlier, this problem of being overwhelmed with work anxiety is not one-dimensional. Much of the onus falls on the system itself. Not ready to make the full commitment necessary, many organizations encourage their employees to “take care of themselves” or “prioritize work-life balance” while, at the same time, covertly/overtly making unrealistic demands in workload and time.

The positive side is that there are companies who have truly taken the task of supporting their employees as people with personal and professional lives to heart.^[9] These organizations stand at the forefront with fair wages, employing enough staff, and setting realistic work expectations, boundaries, and goals. Some top organizations employ life coaches, psychologists, and other support staff, offer employee wellness programs, encourage good nutrition through free healthy meals at work, provide access to fitness and game rooms, and provide unlimited paid time off, flexible schedules, the ability to work remotely, as well as resources to assist with daycare, legal issues, and in-home care to name a few.

Lastly, solid training for managers and HR in addressing employees as “whole” people and taking some of the onus off of the employee to find their own solutions to problems that stem from the workplace is another critical component to successfully supporting employees.^[10]

Final Thoughts

Improving support for people in the workplace is good for everyone. It’s better for people’s health and well-being, it’s better for productivity and making fewer errors, it’s more cost-effective for companies and our healthcare system, and it increases the bottom line for companies.

As we discussed earlier, the big picture will not change overnight. For now, take control of what you can and evaluate ways to better manage your end of things. If these changes are not enough to make the difference you are looking for, then a change of environment or to a company that holds the same beliefs that you do may be in order.

More Tips on How to Manage Work Anxiety

• How to Cope with Stress When You’re Overwhelmed by Responsibilities
• Why You Can (And You Should) Quit Your Job Because of Stress

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Many people have watched the hit TV show Shark Tank and thought they had an idea for a product or service but just did not act on it. Ava (16) and brother Trevor (14) are fans of the show and started to brainstorm on a product that could help a lot of people. They looked at many different categories and challenges people faced and found out a fun fact. A good amount of people don’t wash their feet, and the ones that do sometimes don’t do it thoroughly. They purchased over a dozen products that made the claim to wash your feet but what they found was poorly made, uncomfortable, and in some cases unsafe products. They got to work!

Ava and Trevor leveraged great websites like Fiverr and Upwork to collaborate with extremely talented footwear experts to come up with a simplistic design — one that could clean the top, sides, and bottom of your feet to include your ankles and even between your toes. The brother and sister team then worked with a certified reflexologist to strategically place unique textured mounds on the sole of the product to massage and increase circulation. The last feature they worked on was to add an exfoliation area to gently remove flaky skin. When searching for what name they should call the product, it was simple: Squeaky Clean Feet.

This team worked with another freelancer to get a 3D computer drawing of the product and then went on the search to find the right manufacturer. They ended up working with a contract manufacture broker that represented over 200 companies. They eventually selected one and began the process of creating a prototype. It took about 8 different samples to finally get the right color and texture of bristles as well as quality to meet their standards. This included having friends and family use the different samples and provide their feedback.

To get some early exposure and some capital to cover the cost of the first run of manufacturing, Ava and Trevor created a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. They were delighted when they not only reached their goal but then blew past it. They then gave the final approval for the first run to be complete, which will be before the end of the year.

Now Ava and Trevor had a product they needed to create a buzz, so they started to reach out to local traditional media and on channels like Instagram and Facebook. As of this writing they have been featured on school papers, town publications, magazines, a major news channel, and several social media featured postings. It’s a bit nerve-racking sometimes, but these cofounders are feeling more confident with each interview they do.

For these young entrepreneurs, it has been a long road. They had this idea in late 2018 and really started to work on it in 2019, but their dream to bring this idea to market will be here before the close of the 2021 year. The real compliment to this effort was the feedback they both received. Ava and Trevor’s business problem they thought they were solving was a better way to clean your feet. What they found were dozens of emails from people suffering from unfortunate ailments, accidents, or surgeries and for them, there was no other way to safely clean their feet. The feedback was that this could really improve their lives. Now, this sister and brother team’s drive is greater than ever to get this product into the hands of people who will truly benefit from it.

If you would like to learn more, please go to www.SqueakyCleanFeet.com.

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The internet is flooded with articles about remote work and its benefits or drawbacks. But in reality, the remote work experience is so subjective that it’s impossible to draw general conclusions and issue one-size-fits-all advice about it. However, one thing that’s universal and rock-solid is data. Data-backed findings and research about remote work productivity give us a clear picture of how our workdays have changed and how work from home affects us—because data doesn’t lie.

In this article, we’ll look at three decisive findings from a recent data study and two survey reports concerning remote work productivity and worker well-being.

1. We Take Less Frequent Breaks

Your home can be a peaceful or a distracting place depending on your living and family conditions. While some of us might find it hard to focus amidst the sounds of our everyday life, other people will tell you that the peace and quiet while working from home (WFH) is a major productivity booster. Then there are those who find it hard to take proper breaks at home and switch off at the end of the workday.

But what does data say about remote work productivity? Do we work more or less in a remote setting?

Let’s take a step back to pre-pandemic times (2014, to be exact) when a time tracking application called DeskTime discovered that 10% of most productive people work for 52 minutes and then take a break for 17 minutes.

Recently, the same time tracking app repeated that study to reveal working and breaking patterns during the pandemic. They found that remote work has caused an increase in time worked, with the most productive people now working for 112 minutes and breaking for 26 minutes.^[1]

Now, this may seem rather innocent at first—so what if we work for extended periods of time as long as we also take longer breaks? But let’s take a closer look at this proportion.

While breaks have become only nine minutes longer, work sprints have more than doubled. That’s nearly two hours of work, meaning that the most hard-working people only take three to four breaks per 8-hour workday. This discovery makes us question if working from home (WFH) really is as good a thing for our well-being as we thought it was. In addition, in the WFH format, breaks are no longer a treat but rather a time to squeeze in a chore or help children with schoolwork.

Online meetings are among the main reasons for less frequent breaks. Pre-pandemic meetings meant going to another room, stretching your legs, and giving your eyes a rest from the computer. In a remote setting, all meetings happen on screen, sometimes back-to-back, which could be one of the main factors explaining the longer work hours recorded.

2. We Face a Higher Risk of Burnout

At first, many were optimistic about remote work’s benefits in terms of work-life balance as we save time on commuting and have more time to spend with family—at least in theory. But for many people, this was quickly counterbalanced by a struggle to separate their work and personal lives. Buffer’s 2021 survey for the State of Remote Work report found that the biggest struggle of remote workers is not being able to unplug, with collaboration difficulties and loneliness sharing second place.^[2]

Buffer’s respondents were also asked if they are working more or less since their shift to remote work, and 45 percent admitted to working more. Forty-two percent said they are working the same amount, while 13 percent responded that they are working less.

Longer work hours and fewer quality breaks can dramatically affect our health, as long-term sitting and computer use can cause eye strain, mental fatigue, and other issues. These, in turn, can lead to more severe consequences, such as burnout and heart disease.

Let’s have a closer look at the connection between burnout and remote work.

McKinsey’s report about the Future of work states that 49% of people say they’re feeling some symptoms of burnout.^[3] And that may be an understatement since employees experiencing burnout are less likely to respond to survey requests and may have even left the workforce.

From the viewpoint of the employer, remote workers may seem like they are more productive and working longer hours. However, managers must be aware of the risks associated with increased employee anxiety. Otherwise, the productivity gains won’t be long-lasting. It’s no secret that prolonged anxiety can reduce job satisfaction, decrease work performance, and negatively affect interpersonal relationships with colleagues.^[4]

3. Despite everything, We Love Remote Work

An overwhelming majority—97 percent—of Buffer report’s survey respondents say they would like to continue working remotely to some extent. The two main benefits mentioned by the respondents are the ability to have a flexible schedule and the flexibility to work from anywhere.

McKinsey’s report found that more than half of employees would like their workplace to adopt a more flexible hybrid virtual-working model, with some days of work on-premises and some days working remotely. To be more exact, more than half of employees report that they would like at least three work-from-home days a week once the pandemic is over.

Companies will increasingly be forced to find ways to satisfy these workforce demands while implementing policies to minimize the risks associated with overworking and burnout. Smart companies will embrace this new trend and realize that adopting hybrid models can also be a win for them—for example, for accessing talent in different locations and at a lower cost.

Remote Work: Blessing or Plight?

Understandably, workers worldwide are tempted to keep the good work-life aspects that have come out of the pandemic—professional flexibility, fewer commutes, and extra time with family. But with the once strict boundaries between work and life fading, we must remain cautious. We try to squeeze in house chores during breaks. We do online meetings from the kitchen or the same couch we watch TV shows from, and many of us report difficulties switching off after work.

So, how do we keep our private and professional lives from hopelessly blending together?

The answer is that we try to replicate the physical and virtual boundaries that come naturally in an office setting. This doesn’t only mean having a dedicated workspace but also tracking your work time and stopping when your working hours are finished. In addition, it means working breaks into your schedule because watercooler chats don’t just naturally happen at home.

If necessary, we need to introduce new rituals that resemble a normal office day—for example, going for a walk around the block in the morning to simulate “arriving at work.” Remote work is here to stay. If we want to enjoy the advantages it offers, then we need to learn how to cope with the personal challenges that come with it.

Learn how to stay productive while working remotely with these tips: How to Work From Home: 10 Tips to Stay Productive

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