10 Office Etiquette Tips

In this article, I will show you how we need not take our workplaces for granted. Every workplace has a general feel and expected etiquette. It sometimes does not necessarily need to be documented for your to behave in a certain way. The ambience communicates the expectations to you. However in some organizations, expectations are clearly laid out in company code of conduct documentation from Human Resources Department. I have documented common guidelines. I have been a victim of most of the issues mentioned hence these are life and business lessons well learned in my time as an employee and as an employer. There are things I used to take for granted when I was employed which tick me off totally when an employee of mine does them. I realize the concept of sowing and reaping. I am simply walking the same road as my employer who put up with my not so pleasant habits back then. I am now wearing the same shoes Anglo American and CompuServe wore many years ago. Get me right, I was not an outright rebel but there are small things which I would do as an employee while taking for granted the employer’s expectations. I would compensate my personal missions with high pressurized performance. I achieved the results in the end. One such incident was when I was started my business while still full time at a mining operation 60 miles away from my business. Most of what you see below was violated in that period especially on time and use of company vehicles etc.