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Offering Remote Work Options Creates a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace Environment

Allwork

Allwork.Space and Alliance Virtual Offices conducted a survey, and also analyzed third party research, to understand how remote work impacts individuals’ health and wellbeing. . Not commuting can reduce stress due to savings on transportation costs. . Workers Thrive When Given the Choice of Work Environment . DeFelice, M.,

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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

Success

In many cases, passion projects also result in participants feeling good about doing acts of service that lead to the greater health of the community or even the world. Additionally, initiatives that drain resources—such as employee time and effort, setup costs and maintenance—without fruitful results have less chance of approval.

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

Success

What I’ve come to learn since opening up about my mental health is that I’m not alone, and it does get better,” Deer said. My mental health is also my superpower in that I have a tremendous amount of love, compassion and wisdom to share because of all I’ve been through,” she said. Building a community around belonging.

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

Success

When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, repair and cleaning business in Maryland. “I You need to know what your costs will be and whether your business is scalable.”

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Many people think workplace is a greater source of stress than a relationship breakdown

Workplace Insight

According to the survey conducted by Westfield Health, more than a quarter of workers (27 percent) ranked their job as more stressful than a relationship breakdown (8 percent). These findings are consistent with other recent research indicating that mental health in the UK workforce is declining. As a result, an astounding 17.9

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2014

Small Business Labs

 2014 will see this divide widen as tech savvy small businesses use their technology to cut costs, better connect to customers and gain market share.   And thanks to technology and rising offshoring costs, local firms are often at a competitive advantage relative to overseas outsourcing options.    Health Care.

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Poor air quality affects chess players, and it might be affecting you too

Workplace Insight

The World Health Organization estimate that 99 percent of the world’s population breathe in polluted air each day. Some of the threats air pollution poses to human health are already known. The World Bank estimates this cost to be US$8.1 Humans are exposed to poor air quality and pollution almost everywhere. in the air.

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