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Flexible Office Spaces Boom in Spain as 75,000+ New Companies Establish Roots

Allwork

There’s been a recent surge in new businesses forming in Spain, and it’s a trend that’s causing flexible office spaces to strive in the country. According to a report published by CoStar , the European country’s economic landscape has profound implications for the future of work. In August alone, the number of new companies grew by 11.8%

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

It wasn’t just any form of the disease, but a rare form of blood cancer known as anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Then, in May 2008, he became the 18th pitcher in the history of the storied Red Sox organization to throw a perfect game. Lester went to see doctors and heard words he never expected: He had cancer.

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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

Workplace Insight

The spaces they created resembled university campuses in both form and function, set in landscaped grounds and openly flaunting a connection to nature and the firm’s apparent social awareness. It also confirms something we have learned about biophilic design; that natural forms can improve our wellbeing almost as much as actual nature.

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Online Platforms Enabling the Rise of Global Micro Outsourcing Firms

Small Business Labs

The Oxford paper, for example, reports that a graphic designer in the Philippines earns an average of $8.47 But we don't yet know the full net impact of this form of outsourcing and more research needs to be done on this topic. per hour, while a graphic designer from the United States earns an average of $19.53

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Forecast Lessons from Past Small Business Trends Lists

Small Business Labs

For example, we consider the broad shift towards Mobile Computing starting in 1993 with Apple's failed Newton PDA.    Either way the trend had been around quite a while in 2008 when we said it was "taking off" due to the iPhone's recent success and the expected 2008 release of Google's Android. 

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Collective Intelligence For Teams Inspired From Nature

BioTeams

In this article, I refer to various examples of how Nature’s team achieve this ‘swarm intelligence’ and appropriate how these can be achieved in the organisational setting through Bioteaming. A study into Morman crickets found that their collective movement causes the crickets to form vast swarms. About Max Bhanabhai.

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How to Write a Cheque (Check)

Ian's Messy Desk

There are still places where cash or cheque is the only accepted form of payment; housing rentals being a key example. E.g., September 2008 rent. However, in age of debit cards, automatic teller machines and on-line banking , the need to write cheques (checks) is disappearing. No cheque is legal without the signature.

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