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How Can Office Design Help To Rebuild Working Relationships?

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Workplace friendships took a hit during COVID. Having a close friend at work increases productivity, retention, and workplace satisfaction, among other benefits. Unfortunately, getting back to “normal” isn’t as simple as reinstating pre-COVID work policies. © Copyright Andrew Rugge. Courtesy Perkins Eastman.

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The Future Of Commercial Real Estate In The 21st Century City

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The workplace has become more flexible, allowing for greater autonomy in how and where people work. For the time being, we have moved to a much more fluid model for the workplace—away from people in seats from 9-5 and into a structure that allows people to have more autonomy about where and how they work.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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For them, racism wasn’t a taboo construct but a real aspect of their daily lives that impacted the way they navigated their workplaces. Structural racism refers to the system of policies, cultural practices, institutions and ideologies that work together to create and reinforce racism. Copyright © 2022 by Y-Vonne Hutchinson.

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Employers struggling to keep pace with AI adoption

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While the use of AI tools in the workplace is rapidly increasing, many organisations are lagging in providing guidance and training in the use of these technologies, according to new survey commissioned by Ricoh Europe. However, the adoption of AI is outpacing employers’ implementation of formal policies and procedures.

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How Designers Can Set The Stage For A Flexible Future

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These surveys give the firm real-time insights to shape future policy and space design. Copyright James Ewing. Copyright David Pires Photography. Copyright Jason Robinson. Copyright Wade Griffith. The quick survey asks team members three questions: 1) Why were you in the office? 2) What did you accomplish?

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5 Tips for Handling Unwanted Workplace Visitors

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Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 5 Tips for Handling Unwanted Workplace Visitors Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on July 7, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Comment by Jack on July 9, 2010 @ 7:06 am Trackbacks 5 Tips to ‘Handle’ Unwanted Workplace Visitors - lifehack.org nežinau.lt » ?raš?

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8 Work-Life Balance Myths

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From Human Resources and Skills Development Canada There are myths or assumptions about what the family-friendly workplace really means. Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. Management will lose control.

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