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4 Priorities To Consider When Designing Workplaces For Gen Z

Allwork

Born between 1997 and 2012, Gen Z is the first digitally native generation and is becoming the most diverse and educated. With this shift in mentality and focus on a more varied, nomadic lifestyle, we need to ensure our workspaces are flexible and inclusive to support and engage Gen Z. It seems like a winning recipe, doesn’t it?

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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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While American libraries rarely have a staff member who is a trained bibliotherapist, Allred says that their book makes the case that it is very feasible and rewarding to integrate bibliotherapy-informed practices into library programs, including book clubs. Launched in San Francisco in 2012, this movement especially appeals to introverts.

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10 Favors You Can Do for Yourself Every Day

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In 2012 I wrote about my mother-in-law, Helen Johnson, and I think this question defined her life. Check how the new job is going, ask about the bumpy relationship with the boss or share helpful information. We don’t control everything in life , and some days it may not feel like we control much of anything. Send an email.

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Review: The Information Diet by Clay Johnson

Productivityist

If there’s one book that is the ideal one to add to your 2012 reading list, it’s Clay Johnson’s The Information Diet. The book looks at several components of our information intake, such as drawing the comparison between what we tend to think of as a traditional diet (i.e. food) and an information diet. My Impressions.

2012 40
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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

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The question he and his fellow scientists posed in 2010 led to a paper published in 2012. Using a clever computer program, they asked study participants to react so quickly to information that they didn’t really have time to “think.” Sometimes it takes very smart people to ask smart-dumb questions. They just react.

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Ten years of Insight and a few things I think I know

Workplace Insight

This website started in late 2012 as a way for me to explore both a new media format and a new way of thinking about work and workplaces. So long as they don’t say anything too jarring, off-narrative or point out that things are complicated and subject to new events and information, they’re usually fine. And this was it.

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Use Online Calculators to Reduce Emissions and Save Energy

Eco-Office Gals

Few of us are experts in the fields of energy innovation, nor do we have the skills to assess our individual circumstances and lifestyles and come to practical conclusions about how to save energy. Every car is cataloged, from the ’57 Chevy to the 2012 Toyota Prius. Going green isn’t exactly easy to do by your lonesome.