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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

Between 2015-2019, Iceland ran two large-scale trials of a reduced working week of 35-36 hours with no reduction in pay. Most recruiters work long hours and will be on their phones a lot, but our shift was to focus on outputs not inputs, we’re so conditioned to focus on time spent and this is the wrong metric. Global trials.

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22 Self-Improvement Gift Ideas for Personal Development Junkies

Success

Often, the holidays serendipitously morph into a time we reflect on the past year, to take stock of what and who we’re proud of and give thanks for how far we’ve come. Even better, Original Grain partners with Trees for the Future and has planted one tree for every watch sold since 2015 to foster sustainability and combat deforestation.

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The Top 5 Things That Were Wise Investments for My Home Business

Tips From T. Marie

Why it was a wise choice: Storing my files in the cloud rather than on a physical hard drive or flash drive makes it easy to access them from my desktop, laptop, iPad, and phone. 2 A Business Phone. Why it was a wise choice: When I first started my out, I just used my cell phone as my business phone too.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. Then, in 2015, fueled by the revelatory experience, he opened NeuroHope. Eighteen months after his accident, Leeuw walked again. ROBYN PASSANTE.

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Book Review: The Gary Vaynerchuk Trilogy

Productivityist

Ryan Holiday wrote something similar in his book, The Obstacle is the Way , quoting Marcus Aurelius, “The impediment to action advances action. In early 2015 Justin Jackson is doing something similar, trying to launch a project a week. What stands in the way becomes the way.” For Vaynerchuk this was the same story. Just do it.