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More Companies Are Adopting Sensory-Friendly Practices—Here’s How Your Business Can Follow Suit 

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There can be large, crowded rooms full of cubicles and equipment, disturbing fluorescent lighting and bombardment with a wide variety of noises—coupled with less access to sensory-friendly resources and environments. Dell has a neurodivergent job application system, and Microsoft has a Neurodiversity Hiring Program , for example.

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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

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Revealing that in 2019, 84% of respondents wanted to continue working from home, the number has since dropped dramatically to 59% in 2022. Meanwhile, 16% of people wanted to work from third spaces in 2019, including coworking offices. The benefits of coworker accountability are tremendous.

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WeWork’s Potential Bankruptcy: What Will Be The Effect On Office Vacancy Rates?

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commercial banks and the effect of WeWork’s potential bankruptcy ( as discussed in my article last week ). San Francisco’s very high vacancy rate is perhaps an outlier to a certain extent as it has increased almost 20% since before Covid (Q4 2019), compared to between 10% and 14% for other major U.S. real estate, U.S.

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The Meeting Room Of The Future

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If you had told us in 2019 that meeting rooms needed advanced tech to enable remote teams and onsite teams to work together, we may have said, “maybe for some companies, but most teams don’t need all that…”. If you’ve got fancy equipment, use it! They’re no longer just a room with a table and chairs. Meeting Rooms are Digitalizing .

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Flexible workspace market will be worth up to $50bn by end of decade

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Similarly, Japan witnessed a notable surge, with the teleworking rate escalating from 10 percent to 28 percent between December 2019 and May 2020. The inclusion of individual phone booths and pods, in-room video conferencing systems, and the availability of rental equipment are pivotal factors creating ample growth opportunities.

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NeoCon 2022: Leveraging Design To Support ‘Untethered Working’ And A Hybrid Future

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The annual gathering of furniture and interiors professionals was in full-scale for the first time since 2019. While they recognize the need to connect on and offsite workers, little attention was devoted to equipping other spaces in the ecosystem, most specifically home offices or even coworking spaces. . Easy pivots.

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7 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Be Energy Efficient

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Efficient energy systems do more than lower costs and reduce waste. An efficient system should come equipped with a generator, a component that aids employee comfort in the event of a power outage. Reliable climate control systems can prevent heat stroke — a condition possible at 90° Fahrenheit — and control humidity levels. .

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