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Is Flexibility Going Away?

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A survey of 1,100 companies worldwide by The Conference Board found that only 3% of U.S. The sunk cost fallacy can lead leaders to continue an unsuccessful hybrid workplace policy rather than getting needed advice and training to improve their approach. CEOs intended to decrease remote work availability.

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Designing For The Future: The Four Essential Elements Of Modern Workspaces

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Healthy spaces compliment supportive policies to enrich workplace environments and help nurture employees’ health, happiness, and overall well being. However, our design needs to work in tandem with company policies around wellness and use of office spaces. Healthy Healthy environments are becoming an expectation among the workforce.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

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If you have a customer-is-always-right policy, describe what’s required to support it. Although many companies had to make a dramatic shift in office policies since the pandemic, goLance has been a fully remote company from the start, with the infrastructure, communications, and processes in place for this environment.

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The Post-Covid Economy Demands a Hybrid Office Concept | Virtual Offices and Remote Workers Drive Innovation and Productivity

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There are a few downsides to strict work-from-home policies, including: Diluting company culture . Companies that may have been on the come up have suddenly found themselves tied to an expensive long-term office lease that they are contractually bound to. Keep startup expenses low and avoid the restrictions of high rent .

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How to create an assistant handbook

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On March 26 th I joined some of the PA community’s most motivated and inspiring representatives at the annual Assist conference, speaking in a case study slot on “Future proofing your career” One of the best ways to add value, progress, and drive change is by creating a handbook for assistants at your company.

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Travel Planning in a Pandemic? Here’s What You Need to Know

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Many countries are imposing forced quarantine periods overseen by government authorities and health officials, often at the traveler’s expense. Conferences and events may be a go one week and called off the next. But not all policies are created equal. But for some destinations, a negative test may not be enough. Hotels close.

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Managing meeting rooms

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It sucked more than expenses and writing minutes combined. I also brought in a very, very strict policy that each meeting room had to be cleared of empty coffee cups, paper, miscellaneous crap at the end of each meeting. I’m not going to lie to you, I hated this task. Where do I start…?