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Digital nomads are starting to price out local communities around the world

Workplace Insight

Before COVID upended the way we work, I would usually tell journalists that the numbers were too small for a definitive answer. Most digital nomads were travelling and working illegally on tourist visas. With the average salary in Portugal under US$20,000 (£16,226), these are clearly are not aimed at local people.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

Success

Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. I had intended to ask him about how he started Bonton Farms , an urban farm he founded in a South Dallas food desert more than a decade ago after abandoning a cozy corporate job and six-figure salary. So, we had the right one.

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7 Top Tips on Effective Hiring Practices With a Hybrid Workforce

Recruit CRM

Another two advantages to consider are the reduced environmental impact from less travel and the reduced cost for companies in terms of rent and running costs. It’s a give and take relationship, and to attract the best candidates, you will have to make it worth their while to work for you - employees expect more than just a salary.

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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

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When asked about a possible interview for this story, a team official said, “He doesn’t talk about umpires.” On a balmy Thursday night, the RoughRiders , an affiliate of the big league Texas Rangers, face the Arkansas Travelers , an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, at Frisco, Texas’ Riders Field, formerly known as the Dr Pepper Ballpark.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I would love to take some courses but being out in the west it is hard because most of them are located in Toronto and travel is a hard one to sell for my position. However now with the economic times I think travel will be a no go for some time yet. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat.

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I'm back!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

He was also an international traveler so I had to learn everything about time zones, flights and everything in between when your boss travels to a foreign country. And travel he did. In the last year I worked for him he was away from home travelling for at least 80 nights and for the most part it was international travel.

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7 Magical Ways to Use Curiosity as a Personal Development Tool

Brilliantly Better

Curiosity has been classified as a nice-to-have attribute of a person; it definitely hasn’t been a reinforced attribute by our education system because some feel curiosity may not really serve a purpose. “It Based on my own framework, called Assess - Decide - Do, it will definitely change the way you look at productivity.

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