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Customizing Coworking Spaces for Niche Markets: Smart Strategy Or Risky Move?

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Specialized spaces within coworking environments are trending, providing tailored amenities and designs for niche industries to foster creativity and collaboration. It can be challenging to search for specialized resources in a generic landscape or attempt to forge connections when the environment feels out of sync.

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New objectives in workplace design guide set out to increase biodiversity in government estate

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The UK’s Government Property Agency has published details of how it intends to protect the natural environment and increase biodiversity across its extensive estate. “We must safeguard, secure and improve the environment whilst effectively and sustainably, helping to support growth in all parts of the UK.

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What Every Business Needs To Know About The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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By successfully updating your company’s policies to help accommodate pregnant employees, present or future, you’re not only following the law — you are helping to develop a more friendly and open work environment that benefits the future of work for mothers. ” What are “Reasonable Accommodations” Under the PWFA?

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When Nature Calls, Boston Harbor Now CEO Kathy Abbott Answers

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These interactions helped Abbott to notice and attune to her environment. In her new school, Abbott enrolled in a class at Falmouth High School called “Cape Cod Environment” that focused on horticulture, forestry, landscaping and geomorphology. “It While exploring the natural habitats, her aunts would identify vegetation and animals.

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Employers Beware: There Are Rising Legal Risks Of Rigid RTO Policies

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The insistence of employers on a full return to the office, without considering individual circumstances, could lead to a surge in legal issues — particularly discrimination claims. Are employers walking into a legal storm by enforcing rigid return-to-office (RTO) mandates? In a lawsuit against Electric Boat Corp.,

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How Employers Can Better Serve Neurodiverse Employees in 2023

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She is now Bened Life’s community director, where her days are filled with consulting with leaders on how to encourage a more neurodiverse-friendly environment at work. Open discussion of accommodations Not all employees are open to revealing their conditions, nor do they legally have to. Here’s how they can start doing that today.

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The Perils Of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Training

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Sexual harassment is clearly harmful to wellbeing and productivity, and when unchecked, it can create a toxic environment that no employee wants to work within. It also found that more men than women reported taking legal action when they experienced harassment (but were less likely to do so when the perpetrator was someone more senior).

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