The smallest tasks on our to-do lists can often be the most draining. Even just looking at the mountain of unread emails in your inbox or files that need to be decluttered on your desktop can trigger feelings of stress or anxiety. Cecily Motley, the co-founder of Harriet, an AI-powered workplace assistant, calls these repetitive, tedious activities “vampire tasks” — and warns that getting bogged down by admin work is the number one thing that kills people’s productivity. “It’s those dull, time-sucking tasks like scheduling meetings and responding to emails that drain your energy and take time away from deep-focus…

Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria yesterday said it would embark on nationwide strike from February 27, should the Federal government fail to implement the agreement it entered into with the association in 2020. A statement by the National President of AMBCON, Mansur Umar, read on his behalf by the Kogi State Chairman of the association, Gabriel Adeniyi, yesterday, explained that the decision to go on strike was reached after due consideration of the “multifarious increase in the prices of baking materials such as flour, sugar, yeast, vegetable oil, petrol, diesel all occasioned by subsidy removal and forex…

Nigerian Breweries (NB) Plc has announced an upward review in the prices of some products in its stock-keeping units (SKUs) to mitigate the impact of rising cost of input. The company, in a leaked memo to customers, said the price adjustments would take effect from February 19, 2024. SKU is a unique identifier used to track inventory within a business. Nigerian Breweries is the producer of major alcoholic products like Star Lager, Gulder, Legend Extra Stout, Heineken, Goldberg, Life, and Star Radler amongst others. Non-alcoholic drinks produced by the company include Maltina, Amstel Malta, Fayrouz, Climax Energy drink, and Malta…

Your marketing money is precious and spending it to promote another organization may not seem worthwhile. But think again. Indeed defines cause marketing as a "type of campaign in which a for-profit business seeks to advocate for a social cause while increasing profits." In this way, cause marketing is different from charitable giving, says Lauren Reed, CEO of Reed Public Relations, a Nashville-based public relations and marketing agency that offers cause marketing services: "It's truly a marketing function that drives sales and awareness for your organization while also benefiting your nonprofit or community partner." Pulling together a top-tier cause marketing…