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Science Fiction To Reality: How Anti-aging Drugs Will Upend The Future Of Work

Allwork

While the full repercussions of a longer-living workforce are still to be imagined, the idea of prolonging human life using anti-aging drugs has been tossed around for years. In 2006, an NBC article discussed the topic: “For most people, living longer will inevitably mean more time spent working.

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Throwing open the window to a new world of work

Workplace Insight

While at work in a Viennese Obstetric Clinic in the mid 1840s, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that mothers were far less likely to succumb to a potentially fatal infection called puerperal fever when the medical staff treating them washed their hands. And that should have been that.

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Administrative Training Pioneer Celebrates Unlikely 25-Year Anniversary

Office Dynamics

Along the way, the entrepreneur encountered massive and numerous setbacks that threatened the livelihood of the budding business: multiple re-locations, the tragic loss of Dave Burge (Joan’s spouse and VP of Operations) to pancreatic cancer, and Joan’s own medical emergency that nearly took her life and forced the business to its knees in 2014.

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Plugged in and Tuned Out: Listening to Music While you Work

Laughing all the Way to Work

Working Better With Music According to a 2006 Spherion® Workplace Snapshot survey conducted by Harris Interactive®, "almost one-third (32 percent) of workers listen to music while working using an iPod, MP3 player or similar personal music device. My Opinion.

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

Allwork

What you’ll learn Discover the evolving workplace design trends shaping the future of urban workspaces. Uncover the pivotal role of technology in fostering workplace flexibility and adaptability. It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that. Do we even really want a workplace?

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

A certified positive psychology coach, Callanan has worked in the workplace happiness space with many global brands for more than a decade, specializing in culture, workplace engagement and leadership. She has two daughters, Grace and Christina, two extremely large golden doodles, and splits her time between New York and San Francisco.

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Taylor's a Feminist – But So Is James | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

I’ve known about James’ true gender for some time, and we’ve had a lot of discussions about whether, in today’s day and age, such a choice is really necessary to command respect in the workplace. It never really occurred to me that I shouldn’t be treated equally and paid equally in the workplace because I’m a woman. Makes sense.

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