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Report sets out nine ways cities can reduce carbon emissions

Workplace Insight

From rethinking traditional construction methods and materials to breathing new life into otherwise obsolete buildings, new solutions are rapidly emerging to tackle this challenging issue, collectively referred to as embodied carbon.” The breadth and variety of city action can inspire the sector’s confidence to invest in just solutions.

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Is Employee Burnout Worse Than Ever Before?

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Additionally, a Glassdoor report showed that references to burnout were up by 40% from 2019 levels. . However, return-to-office policies are just the beginning. According to the most recent quarterly survey from Slack’s Future Forum, 43% of office workers in the U.S. There are a few reasons for this.

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The Four Horsemen of the Mandated Return to Office

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European banks, which offer more flexible hybrid work policies, are using these to hire talented staff from the less flexible US banks. That term refers to employees psychologically disengaging from their work, and doing just enough to get by without getting in trouble. Quiet Quitting. and the number of women in its global workforce.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4 trillion.”

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Food Delivery Continues to Boom

Small Business Labs

  Controversy swirled around grocery delivery company Instacart and their policy on tipping, witch many called wage theft. While this led to Instacart changing their policy, other food delivery companies so far are continuing with their tipping practices despite complaints by both drivers and customers. 

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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An online survey conducted by Forrester Consulting in 2019 found that 49% of respondents saw revenue boosted by partnerships and 77% of respondents saw “partnership development as central to their 2019 sales and marketing strategy.” . Create policy for the event that a new innovation stems from the partnership.

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Ryan Anderson VP of Global Research & Insights MillerKnoll | The Return to Office & Reengineering Cities

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It’s a good end state to work towards, but it really refers to a state of balance in terms of working locations. And by that it really refers not just to working hours, but more control over your work week. And at the same time executives have said, well, this is our policy and people don’t seem to be abiding by it.

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