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Deconstruct Your Office Into Core Resources To Rebuild Productivity

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An effective office layout embraces a mix of experiences, providing a range of work surfaces and seating options to suit various tasks and employee preferences, enabling both focused work and dynamic collaboration. The point is to offer enough choice to employees that they have agency in choosing what works for them at any given time.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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How they innovate: One such collaboration, with Vacation Donations, helped connect guests departing from vacation rental properties with a place to leave extra food that would otherwise go in the trash. The company raised $150 million in private equity funding in 2020. 29 Photo by ©Tory Williams/Courtesy of No.

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Beware the workplace mouse trap

Workplace Insight

Mice are surprisingly using higher-order approaches to learn even simple tasks, which may seem maladaptive. The failure to attribute complex agency to the beings we observe and act upon is a common failure of our species. Firms have been almost as keen to acquire management software as they have collaborative tools.

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Is a Widespread Return to Working in the Office on the Horizon?

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He says, “They are asking us to do the transformative work that I believe can only be done effectively when we are physically together—the kind of thinking, daring collaboration, courageous conversations that cannot be done on Teams calls, or in just prescheduled meetings or just as transactions.

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How Multifamily Design Can Inform The New Office

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From outdoor work areas to indoor ‘sanctuary’ spaces, there is much that office designers can learn from multifamily buildings, which ultimately improves workers’ comfort and well-being. Utilizing playful landscaping and varied furniture and seating configurations further enhances the user agency, engagement, and comfort.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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The power of collaboration Collaboration among women in various roles—entrepreneurs, influencers and corporate and community leaders—is a powerful force for change. With a focus on the intersection of mindset, strategy and wellness, her Believe-Own-Learn-Design (B.O.L.D.) Framework is your map to the “bold” life. With the U.S.

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

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My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020. At Copenhagen-based software and design agency Abtion, employees had learned how to redesign working hours, meeting schedules and adopt new technologies when they chose to adopt a 4-day week. That’s really great to see.”