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How to Make Sustainable Practices Make Sense for Your Business

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in environmental sustainability, says businesses have impacted society and the surrounding environment in positive and negative ways for hundreds of years. However, in the past couple of decades, changes in the environment are now having a serious impact on how businesses operate,” Finnegan says.

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The circular economy is a great opportunity, but it doesn’t add up yet

Workplace Insight

Manufacturers and suppliers are arguably challenged by lack of clarity, requirements for significant investment, combined with cost pressures in a heavily subscribed market. Tax incentives introduced to buoy up the struggling furniture manufacturing sector during the pandemic, for example, support the traditional, procurement approach.

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Businesses need to take real action to create a more sustainable workplace

Workplace Insight

For example, in 2022 a high street bank had its advertising campaign pulled for promoting its tree-planting scheme and net-zero plan without acknowledging that it is financing fossil fuel projects. Or, if they are changing their equipment, they could look at purchasing refurbished items themselves.

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All we are saying is give lease a chance

Workplace Insight

We started by sitting and chatting with Nicki Matthews, Director at Plus Finance , who is not new to the concept of furniture leasing. We had even built into the monthly cost the cost of picking the product up and refurbishing it. Money is still the driving force in the vast majority of cases,” she tells us.

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. Time management skills A person who doesn't manage their time properly will be overwhelmed by the amount of work that piles up. Office managers should always expand their knowledge.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 209/11/24

The Small Business Blog

Small Business World News Round-up – 209/11/24 by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 24, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. 2010 may be no better.

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To boost productivity in the UK, we need to think big and different

Workplace Insight

All suppliers have best practices which can be distributed by role to enable active reminders, ongoing support, plus tracking of use and improvement of content daily. Importantly, this technology once applied enables organisations to see the active deployment of best practices which improves productivity.