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People seconded from other roles come up with the best ideas

Workplace Insight

Seconded employees – employees temporarily assigned to a different role, organisation, or department – develop more innovative ideas and influence permanent staff to do the same, according to new research from ESMT Berlin and published in the Strategic Management Journal.

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Looking to Excel in Your Career? Business Coach Melanie Towey Recommends Starting with Self-Investment

Success

But when she started her career in the building materials and construction industry in 2012, Towey was asking questions focused more on “what’s next” rather than “what feels right?” When the company began building its first gallery nine months later, Towey asked for the management track. I’ll sign up today.’ I was never home….

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Which Way To Run? Decoding The Wobbly Economics Of The Office Market

Allwork

The numbers simply don’t add up, and as the contradictory signals and claims keep being published, the confusion mounts. Managers threaten to withhold promotions and raises for employees who work remotely (too often). Some of the numbers, considered together, don’t add up. RTO mandates. That only feeds the confusion.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” And the pool of millennial small-business owners is growing—just last year, they made up only 7% of the survey sample.

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Episode 483: Peter Ivanov Talks About Powering Up Virtual Teams

Productivityist

With 20 years of experience as a Senior Manager leading international virtual teams across Europe, Africa, and Asia, Peter’s teams have achieved remarkable success, including winning the prestigious “Global IT Connect Award” in 2012. The importance of knowledge flow in virtual and hybrid teams. See you later.

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How Care.com Hires and Keeps Happy Employees

Success

Hiring people who lived up to the name of Care.com —an online service that matches families with housekeepers and caregivers for the elderly, children and even pets—was critically important to founder and former CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo as the firm expanded. This article was published in October 2012 and has been updated.

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Commercial Interiors UK appoints new managing director

Workplace Insight

Commercial Interiors UK (CIUK), the Trade Association for the UK’s Commercial Interiors Sector has appointed Sean Holt as its new Managing Director. Post the pandemic and prior to joining CIUK Sean was Managing Director of the British Furniture Manufacturers Association.