2024.02.05

Laura Vivoni
Feb 5, 2024
2 min read

It's February already!

Office News

Office Announcements

We are one step closer to our move to 1 Penn, we are looking into a probable March 1st move.
The Office Photo Shoot was held in the office on Feb 1st, whoever was not able to attend, is responsible for providing us with a headshot, by Feb 7 for the new office ID's

New Hires

Damendra "Roy" Gopaul - Start Date 02/05/24 - Handyman for 2840 Atlantic

Holidays - February

Please click on the Links for more information about the Holidays this month!

Lincoln's Birthday - February 12th - This is a Floating Holiday for all Unions and other employees.
Valentine's Day - February 14th - Can be taken as a Floating Holiday
President's Day - February 19th - This is a Legal Holiday for Union Employees, except 32BJ in 500 Mamaroneck, that only employees who worked in MLK are allowed to take it. - It counts as Floating Holiday for other employees.
Rosh Chodesh Lunch is on Tuesday February 21

Birthdays

From the List of People who have filled out the Birthday Announcement Authorization:

Let's wish a wonderful Birthday to:

Joe Milstein - February 2nd
CJ Zwick - February 4th
Rachel Perlstein - February 24
Tony Kong - February 25

If you haven't done so, please fill out the 1-2 question form to give or deny consent to announce your birthday on the bulletin and Slack - Birthday Announcement Authorization

Software Updates

Rent Manager Updates

Please click on the linked Titles below to be taken to the Article.

Release Notes 12.1040 - Click on Link to read more.

NEW FEATURES

Renewal Increases Window found in the Rental Info Tab in Rent Manager.
ENHANCEMENTS - Purchase Order Workflow Tool that allows you to link Purchase orders with Bills that came from Avid.

BOX Features

Did you know that Box has Box Relay which is a Workflow Automation Application?
And Box Canvas which is a secure virtual whiteboard
also Box Notes - online notes for secure, real-time collaboration
Collaboration Box - Get everyone working together in the Content Cloud
Coming soon: Box AI

Slack Updates

Unread messages on mobile

Catch up on all of your unread conversations at once, right from your mobile device.

Theme customization is back!

Change the look of your workspace with the option to choose colors for different elements of your Slack theme.

Other news

Screen reader users can use the keyboard shortcut ⌘+Option+S (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+S (Windows) to hear a summary of unread activity in all of their logged in workspaces.
Admins on the Enterprise Grid plan can adjust the banners that appear in Slack Connect conversations to make them more visible.
Show or hide your list of workspaces by clicking the workspace switcher icon in the top bar of the desktop app.
Quickly invite the whole channel to a huddle in channels with fewer than 20 members.
Admins can now choose whether guests can change their full name or display name in their Slack profile.
Add a cover image to your canvases from our library, or upload your own.
The Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar apps can now notify entire channels of calendar events.
View all of your published and in-progress workflows from the new Managed by you page in the workflow gallery.