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What Can Young Lawyers Teach Us About The Future Of Workspaces?

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Younger lawyers prioritize a legal workplace that supports flexibility, equality, and collaboration, favoring environments with open spaces and modern aesthetics over traditional “men’s club” interiors; these preferences are reshaping law firm office design. Here’s what they would love to see! According to Francis J.

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Members of European Parliament back charter to ‘revolutionise workplace wellbeing’

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The European Charter for Digital Workplace Wellbeing has been signed by a group of 31 MEPs, including MEP Drago? Pîslaru, Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. And, in a February 2023 survey of 10,243 global workers by US think-tank Future Forum, 42 percent reported burnout.

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

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The Biodiversity and Nature Recovery Annex (BNRA) forms part of the Government Workplace Design Guide. The Annex outlines the key actions the GPA will take to maintain compliance with legal requirements, including adherence to the new Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) mandated planning requirements.

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How This LGBTQ+ CEO Nurtures Workplace Diversity From The Inside Out

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Implementing DEI strategies has long played a role in workplace politics, but there continues to be limitations in how effective these policies are. . Back [in the early 2000s], we were a long way from legalizing gay marriage and almost no tech company hosted Pride events in June or even so much as changed their logo in support. ? .

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Hefty fine for Amazon has implications for employee surveillance policy

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CNIL found that such monitoring was highly intrusive and would therefore be likely to have a negative impact on staff morale in the workplace. Weighing up the interests of the employer against the interests of its employees led the regulator to deem that such data processing had no legal basis and was therefore in contravention of GDPR law.

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Routes to Greater Sustainability event brings office furniture sector together to talk climate change

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Joanna Knight, Climate Change and Sustainability Committee chairman, said: “Our Routes to Greater Sustainability Industry Day offered a unique opportunity for colleagues from throughout the furnishing sector, from retail, office, bedding and flooring, to come together to share knowledge and experiences.

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Women far more likely to have disadvantageous flexible working arrangements

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The findings have been published, a year after the government closed its consultation on flexible work, and ahead of the next committee stage of Yasmin Qureshi MP’s private members bill on flexible work. The post Women far more likely to have disadvantageous flexible working arrangements appeared first on Workplace Insight.

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