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IWG To Open New Spaces Location In A Former Los Angeles WeWork Office

Allwork

In 2014, WeWork signed a lease to take up over six floors of the city’s Fine Arts Building. Now, IWG will open a 38,000 square foot Spaces location, taking up the ninth through 12th floors and penthouse as it prepares for companies embracing hybrid work policies. .

2014 238
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The 2023 Motherhood Penalty: The Sorry State Of Affairs For Working Women Continues

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Redesigning policies around parental leave could address gender imbalances in the workplace and positively influence societal attitudes towards unpaid childcare. If far-reaching policy changes are not implemented, working women with children will continue to be penalized. Plus, the childcare situation is becoming even more of a crisis.

2023 281
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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

Success

In the early 2000s, Google encouraged an 80/20 policy, which gave employees the bandwidth to ideate, develop and innovate projects during 20% of their work schedule. Additionally, initiatives that drain resources—such as employee time and effort, setup costs and maintenance—without fruitful results have less chance of approval.

2023 273
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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. 

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Don’t Be Adidas: Making Better Decisions Fast Is Important For Business Leadership

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Just like Adidas, GM failed to anticipate the backlash and damage to its reputation from this misguided policy. . Adidas’ denialism likely stems from the cognitive bias known as the sunk costs fallacy. That includes Palmer Luckey, the founder of VR headset startup Oculus, which Meta acquired in 2014 for $2 billion.

2016 299
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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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There are things he would do differently, he says, but his core values influenced the company’s culture then and now, and it’s fair to say Excel was built with the kind of integrity that sometimes eludes bigger companies (even if their ethics policies say otherwise). “In This article was published in April 2014 and has been updated.

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Regional divides, falling incomes, booming jobs markets; and lower productivity. The current state of the UK

Workplace Insight

Other analysis in the report reveals: Housing costs have increased in most places, eating into disposable incomes. Housing became less affordable in almost every place in the 2010s, with the steepest rises in housing costs in places in the Greater South East such as Cambridge, London and Brighton – that already had high housing costs in 2010.

2010 105