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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. . Remote work options can help utilize the unique experience and skills of minorities, increasing diversity and equity. . Key Findings: . DeFelice, M.,

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The Post-Covid Economy Demands a Hybrid Office Concept | Virtual Offices and Remote Workers Drive Innovation and Productivity

Allwork

Workers widely support flexible working, with some surveys indicating employees would leave their jobs if they were refused such arrangements. . Evidence has accumulated that shows workers widely support flexible working on a grand scale, with some surveys indicating employees would leave their jobs if they were refused such arrangements. .

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Major built environment institutes renew joint pledge to tackle global instability as cities boom 

Workplace Insight

In Uganda in 2018 , a survey recorded that there were just five architects and 50 engineers per every one million people living in the country (compared to more than 600 of each for every one million in the UK) while urbanising at a rate of 6 percent per year – more than six times the rate of the UK.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018. After six months, in a company-wide survey, 51 percent of employees said they were “very happy” at work (up from 12 percent) and 88 percent said they had enough time for personal tasks (up from 54 percent).

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

Ideas.Ted

Hard to believe, but in 2018, only roughly 3 percent of US employees worked from home, reports management researcher David Burkus. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jen Gunter (TED Original Video: What really happens to your body during menopause ) . Read an excerpt here. ) . years in 2019.

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Independent Workers Feeling More Secure

Small Business Labs

.  Back in 2011 when we first starting asking about this in surveys, we assumed the vast majority of independent workers would view self-employment as being less secure than having a traditional job.  In 2018 49% of full-time independent workers feel working independently is more secure than having a traditional job.

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Childhood’s end for work and the need for a grown-up conversation about it

Workplace Insight

“The love of money as a possession – as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life – will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental health.”

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