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Customizing Coworking Spaces for Niche Markets: Smart Strategy Or Risky Move?

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Specialized spaces within coworking environments are trending, providing tailored amenities and designs for niche industries to foster creativity and collaboration. It can be challenging to search for specialized resources in a generic landscape or attempt to forge connections when the environment feels out of sync.

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How To Spot And Prevent Substance Abuse In Your Workforce

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The workplace is a crucial environment that significantly influences an individual’s life. Here’s how to prevent it: Implement a Clear Policy: Every organization should have a clear, written policy regarding substance abuse. Additionally, concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) led to increased alcohol intake for 28%.

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What Every Business Needs To Know About The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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The law seeks to address situations where pregnant employees may face discrimination, such as being fired, denied a promotion, or not receiving the same benefits or accommodations as non-pregnant employees. According to the EEOC, “‘reasonable accommodations’ are changes to the work environment or the way things are usually done at work.”

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Workers may have new rights to request flexible working, but let’s not celebrate too soon

Workplace Insight

Companies that do not have clear policies around flexible working requests will be unprepared to handle the influx of new requests, promptly. If employers rush to answer requests they could also end up with “patchwork policies” for flexible work which are uneven across the organisation. So it’s up to employers to step up.

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The Perils Of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Training

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Sexual harassment is clearly harmful to wellbeing and productivity, and when unchecked, it can create a toxic environment that no employee wants to work within. It also found that more men than women reported taking legal action when they experienced harassment (but were less likely to do so when the perpetrator was someone more senior).

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Is the Flexible Working Bill a game changer or paper tiger?

Workplace Insight

Forcing them to review each individual employee’s circumstances before approving their request is an unnecessary extra workload, one which could be solved by simply applying one policy for their entire workforce. Leadership, technology, legal frameworks all have been widely discussed by experts – the leap has never been easier.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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It’s important to pay attention to the business matters at hand along with their legal aspects and personalities, he adds. The goal is to increase capability—whether through offering new products or services, expanding in capacity or geographically, or cross-promoting,” she says. Who will be the client point-of-contact?

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