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A look back at The Stoddart Review: the once and future guide to workplace productivity?

Workplace Insight

A Nicholas Bloom study from 2015 , before the Stoddart Review, also found that employees who opted into work-from-home policies saw a 13 percent lift in their productivity. A 2008 study found that people are distracted every four minutes in the office , with the top offenders being our co-workers, noise, smartphone notifications, and emails.

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Ryan Anderson VP of Global Research & Insights MillerKnoll | The Return to Office & Reengineering Cities

Allwork

And at the same time executives have said, well, this is our policy and people don’t seem to be abiding by it. Is it a policies issue? This was one of the things that concerned me most about the workplace in 2018 and 2019 is that we’ve been seeing desk utilization rates drop for a decade. Is it a design issue?

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Creating Effective Team Communication Systems

BioTeams

Project and enterprise teams across all organisation types are perpetually exposed to a stream of information flows that ebb the natural tempo of processes, policies, system mechanics, codes of conduct and collaboration protocols. Tampa, Fla.: Meghan-Kiffer Press, part 3. En.wikipedia.org. online] Available at: [link] [Accessed 10 Nov.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

Ideas.Ted

Gore may not have gotten the policy response he wanted, but the film jump-started a national conversation about our role in global warming. . Cooked: Survival by Zip Code , 2019, directed by Judith Helfand. Long-standing inequalities often distort environmental politics and policies in the US.

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