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Aerial Shift: How Drones are Redrawing the Landscape of the Future Workplace

Allwork

For starters, humans are incapable of filming and surveying land in the same way that drones can. Some of these industries include: Military Agriculture Productivity monitoring Inspection agencies Military Despite gaining popularity in the War on Terror, drones — in some capacity — have been used as early as the First World War.

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Study: Corporations Rely on Their Non-Employee Workforce

Small Business Labs

SAP Fieldglass's External Workforce Insights 2018 study, 44% of workforce spend at large corporation is on external, non-employee talent.  The report chart above (click to enlarge) illustrates this and shows that the companies surveyed are spending about the same amount on external service providers and external independent workers.

2018 184
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A Millennial’s Guide to Finances: 5 Things to Start Before You Turn 30

Success

According to a 2022 survey by Deloitte, 36% of millennials and 29% of Gen Z cited “cost of living” as their greatest concern. This article was published in November 2018 and has been updated. Somehow as we age, #adulting is just supposed to be intuitive. or underestimates the amount of student debt you’ve been forced to shoulder.

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Major built environment institutes renew joint pledge to tackle global instability as cities boom 

Workplace Insight

In a Memorandum of Understanding , the group say they have agreed to continue to make their joint expertise accessible to the governments, humanitarian agencies and development partners at the sharp end of delivering sustainable urbanisation.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

Following the success of a New Zealand-based trial at property planning company, Perpetual Guardian in 2018, Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart set up 4 Day Week Global, the not-for-profit platform for the promotion of the four-day week. In terms of size of employers, we have everyone from small start-ups to corporates with 1,500 staff.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018. After six months, in a company-wide survey, 51 percent of employees said they were “very happy” at work (up from 12 percent) and 88 percent said they had enough time for personal tasks (up from 54 percent).