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Strategies To Align Workspace Design With Evolving Business Goals

Allwork

This trend begs a larger question of what the purpose of the office is and how organizations can better align flexible work policies with business goals. As office needs change, building owners must, too Large and small organizations are rethinking their square-foot-per-employee standards as part of their hybrid work policies.

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A look back at The Stoddart Review: the once and future guide to workplace productivity?

Workplace Insight

A Nicholas Bloom study from 2015 , before the Stoddart Review, also found that employees who opted into work-from-home policies saw a 13 percent lift in their productivity. A 2008 study found that people are distracted every four minutes in the office , with the top offenders being our co-workers, noise, smartphone notifications, and emails.

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I am such an SOB!

Loosely Speaking

Monday, October 27, 2008 at 9:03 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Successful and Outstanding Blogger, that is! Liz Strauss , the original SOB is hosting her blog’s 3rd birthday party tomorrow, October 28, 2008. Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? See you there?

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? in my experience. does the company have random drug testing. ?

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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VA Industry Leaders: a conversation

Loosely Speaking

Comments: 19 19 Comments Marsha Kopan Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 1:34 pm I am not so sure about this blogging thing. Kathie Thomas, A Claytons Secretary Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 6:36 pm So many questions – and I can answer all or some, or just one. James Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 7:53 pm Good post.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

Ideas.Ted

Gore may not have gotten the policy response he wanted, but the film jump-started a national conversation about our role in global warming. . Long-standing inequalities often distort environmental politics and policies in the US. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code , 2019, directed by Judith Helfand.

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