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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

You can’t get the best out of freelancers until you’ve honed your management processes. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication. Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion.

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AI turns out to be an effective administrator for academics

Workplace Insight

Researchers Maximilian Koehler, PhD candidate at ESMT, and Henry Sauermann, professor of strategy at ESMT, explore the role of AI, not as a “worker” performing specific research tasks such as data collection and analysis, but as a “manager” of human workers performing such tasks.

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Early detection of COVID-19 in the workplace

Workplace Insight

A Thermo Fisher Scientific manufacturing site in Erlangen, Germany, has managed to avoid this situation, thanks largely to the installation of air sampling equipment that flags any positive cases in its vicinity. If the sample comes back positive, managers can assess the risk and decide what precautions should be taken.

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Three year hike in the number of one-to-one and ad hoc virtual meetings

Workplace Insight

Its paper The Evolution of Hybrid Work: A Three-Year Analysis based on data from around 48 million meetings held in 2020, 2021, and 2022 measured engagement trends over time and studied how the workforce is adapting to remote-first and hybrid collaboration. Greater retention.

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A third of workers think their jobs are at risk from automation

Workplace Insight

Yet, the majority of occupations with the highest probability of automation, according to ONS analysis, are among the lowest paid. CIPHR polled a representative sample of 1,031 employed British adults to find out whether they thought their job could become automated in the future (they were also asked to disclose their exact job titles).

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Artificial Intelligence at Work: How Office Professionals Can Build A.I. Skills for the Future

Eat Your Career

These programs can refine and even create brand new images, videos, presentations, written content, data analysis, and more. For example, you might enter something like this: I am a senior executive assistant at a small wealth management firm in Northern California. tools have flooded the market. tools to be used.

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APAC region leads the world in return to office bookings, report claims

Workplace Insight

The report draws on a representative sample of more than six thousand organisations within Eptura’s global customer base to showcase emerging patterns in how the physical workspace operates at every level, from individual assets to office floorplans to entire buildings. Employees want the freedom to choose when and where to work.

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