How Many Working Weeks Are In A Year?

How many work weeks are in a year? There are 52 work weeks per year. Said differently, most companies are open every week of the year. However, the answer can change depending on a few factors: If you exclude US federal holidays, there are 50 work weeks per year If you exclude an average amount of time off for employees, it is 49-50 work weeks…

9 Best Desks Under $100 In 2024 (Don’t Buy These 2)

You’re looking for a functional, reliable desk under $100 – you don’t want one that will break, shake, or become an instant mistake. And the last thing you need is to do eight hours of research for a desk under $100. I’ve worked from home for a decade and I’m on home office desk number five. I finally have a standup desk I’m happy with,…

How Many Weekends (& Weekend Days) Are In A Year?

You’re here to know how many weekends (and weekend days) occur in a year. On average, one can count on 52 weekends and 104 weekend days in a given year. However, this can be affected by leap years and which day of the week January 1 falls on. Accurate counting of work days and weekend days is essential for various operational purposes in your business,…

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32 Programs To Strengthen Remote Work Culture

You’ve see PLENTY of advice about how to build a remote company culture. But most of the articles I see offer intangible and esoteric advice, like “embrace transparency.” For me personally, I can’t do anything with that. It’s too hard to read those and then implement something that we can actually do each day, week, or month to improve the culture. Here’s my idea: 🛑 …

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Every Company Leaving California: 2020-2024

Arguably since the first agricultural revolution 10,000+ years ago, work has been tied to a fixed location. That location-based work – first a farm, then a manufacturing plant, then an office – created opportunity. Opportunity attracted workers (or new citizens). Therefore, we always formed cities, countries, and societies primarily through location-based opportunity. Go where the work is, as they say. For the first time in…

5 Team Meeting Agenda Templates

A “team meeting” could mean just about anything: your full team, your full company, your department, or a team dedicated to a certain project. Since it’s such an amorphous term, I built several agenda templates for different types of team meetings: Weekly team meeting agenda Non-work team meeting agenda First team meeting agenda All-hands meeting agenda Department/staff meeting agenda How to run a remote team…

Leadership Meeting Agenda Template For Management Teams

Leadership meetings (or management meetings) are used to align the heads of each department on the key numbers, issues, and strategies within the company. They serve as a forum for analysis, decision-making, and problem-solving. In this article, you’ll learn about the purpose of a leadership meeting, the recommended frequency, who should be included, and what should be included in a leadership meeting agenda.  Purpose Frequency…

How To Prepare For A Skip Level Meeting (+ Questions To Ask)

When an employee has a meeting with his manager’s manager, it’s called a skip-level meeting. The discussion “skips” over one layer of management.  In this article, we’ll break down every aspect of a skip-level meeting including how to prepare as the employee and the manager. What is a skip-level meeting? Why should you have one? How do you prepare? Questions to ask (employee and manager)…

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Every Major Company Reducing Office Space: 2020-2024

At Buildremote, we’ve reported a staggering amount of well-known companies that have implemented some form of permanent remote work. Next, we analyzed in-depth the true plans for the Fortune 100’s return to office. At one point in March of 2022, only 3 of the Fortune 100 had declared a full return to the office for all employees. The others planned to never come back in full,…