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Office Vacancies Increase in Hong Kong, Reflecting Global Trend

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In July, Hong Kong’s Grade A office market experienced a notable increase in office vacancy rates as tenants returned 224,600 square feet more space than they acquired, according to JLL’s Hong Kong Property Market Monitor report. This movement factored into a slight uptick in the city’s overall office vacancy rates, which increased from 12.6 percent in June to 12.8 percent overall in July.

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What Does the TikTok Trend of De-influencing Mean for Your Brand?

Success

In a TikTok from February, user @matchabuttercookie faces the camera to address her more than 27,000 followers. Her face is serious, and her voice is sincere. “OK, this is me jumping on the de-influencing train,” she begins, before listing some of the home goods and kitchen items—including Caraway pans and Urban Outfitters furniture—that she’s regretted buying.

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J.M. Smucker’s Introduces A Novel Hybrid Work Schedule

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In a departure from conventional policies, J.M. Smucker has developed its own unique take on the hybrid work environment. Smucker’s has designed a return-to-office plan that allows its 1,300 corporate employees to spend as little as six days a month at the office, or roughly a quarter of their time, according to The Wall Street Journal. This hybrid model, which revolves around 22 “core” weeks out of the year, empowers employees to choose their own work schedule, whether remote or i

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Beat Procrastination! Get Unstuck & Get Things Done

Eat Your Career

Even the most ambitious professional can fall victim to procrastination—endlessly putting off important things that eventually pile up and come back to haunt you. When this happens too often, it can create disastrous career consequences. Instead of feeling guilty and criticizing yourself, it’s helpful to evaluate what’s causing your behavior. You can then put better systems into place to avoid these things in the future.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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The Death of Full-Time In-Office Work And The Rise Of Tomorrow’s Corporate Titans

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An astonishing 76% of companies with under 500 employees now offer full work location flexibility or have gone fully remote. The most innovative thinkers recognize rigid office mandates cost money, hamper agility, and repel top talent. Today’s scrappy startups embracing flexible work are positioned to dominate the future across industries. The traditional 9-to-5, suited-up office worker spending their days in a cubicle farm — that image is quickly fading into history.

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

If you’re looking to hire a new EA or EA/PA, it’s critical to assess the balance needed between “hard” technical skills and “soft” skills, before you start the process. This is especially important if your last hire didn’t work out or a new role has been created to support a C-Suite executive. Often, soft executive assistant skills are the difference between an average EA and the perfect EA.

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Why does colour psychology make so much difference to us?

Workplace Insight

In 2013, two Australian academics set out to discover the answer to a deceptively simple question. Why is there such a thing as colour psychology, but not shape, line or texture psychology? The answers they come up with are complex, arcane and wide-ranging but they manage to sum them up to some extent in the conclusion to the paper they published. “No other visual attribute shares such diverse representations”, they wrote.

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Drew Jones | Creating a Culture that Inspires: The Impact of Authentic Leadership and Core Values

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Guest Episode Video Transcript HERE Drew Jones Founder and Principal Consultant at Drew Jones Design Meet Drew Jones, the man who has made it his mission to change how companies perceive and shape their culture. As a prominent anthropologist and author, his fresh viewpoints have drawn attention to the relationship between workplace culture, employee engagement, and innovation.

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