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2019 Joan Burge Innovation Award for Assistants

Office Dynamics

Therefore, I created the Joan Burge Innovation Award in 2019. Other ideas presented included: An executive’s travel binder. And if you attend our 2020 Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence , please submit your innovative idea. You just might be the recipient of the 2020 Joan Burge Innovation Award !

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Scientific American's Top Emerging Technologies of 2019

Small Business Labs

Scientific American's describes their Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2019 as "World-changing technologies that are poised to rattle the status quo."    Back in 2014, there were lots of forecasts that AI-based driverless cars would be common by 2020. would be disrupted by AI by 2020.

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Digital Nomad Numbers Skyrocket Thanks to Work From Anywhere

Small Business Labs

million in 2019 to 10.9 million in 2020, a 49% increase.   As the report chart below shows, the number of digital nomads with traditional jobs roughly doubled from 2019 to 2020. Because of this, only 1 out of 4 (24 percent) American digital nomads said they plan to travel internationally over the next year.

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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

Success

18, 2019, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station’s maintenance and assembly, and marked the first all-female spacewalk in history. Nearly 60 years later, on Oct. Charpentier and Doudna received the Nobel for their work on the technology of genome editing.

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American Express on The Rise of the Digital Nomad

Small Business Labs

American Express recently released its annual Global Travel Trends report.   said that the freedom and flexibility of being able to live and work while traveling the globe is more appealing now than it was prior to the pandemic." million in 2019 to 10.9 million in 2020, a 49% increase.   

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Location, Location, Location: Why Your Next Coworking Space Should Be In A Residential Neighborhood

Allwork

In 2019, a one-way commute to work took the typical U.S. workers would travel for 30 minutes or longer, whilst 10% took an hour or so to commute, according to The New York Times. Even before 2020, forward-thinking companies were taking up leases in local workspaces. worker 28 minutes, on average. 40% of U.S.

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

Allwork

2019). . 2020). . 2020; Roberts et al., In fact, the leading cause of death globally for all people under age 54 is road crashes (Association for Safe International Road Travel, 2022). . 2020). . The risks are increased the longer a commuter has to travel (Lovett et al., DeFelice, M., 27.5 – 46.9%