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Breaking The Employee Burnout Cycle With Workplace Strategy

Allwork

The American Psychological Association recently revealed that nearly 60% of employees are experiencing negative impacts of work-related stress. Virtually everyone has experienced major upheaval since 2020. And that’s not the only study showing the affects of work stress. Why is this important? And 36% reported mental weariness.

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Being furloughed affected people’s sense of time and relationship with work

Workplace Insight

Between March 2020 and September 2021, millions of workers furloughed under the UK government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme lived what for many of us is a dream: being paid not to work. One woman, an agency administrator, used the time to fulfil a long-held ambition to restore vintage airplanes.

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How Multifamily Design Can Inform The New Office

Allwork

Since the pandemic, people crave sanctuaries from the stress and hustle of life. At our current junction point, the home represents that sanctuary, but workplaces can achieve these elements of “a sanctuary” too, rather than a space that condones stress, boredom, etc. Through design, environments are transformed.

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

Ideas.Ted

After more than 2,500 workers moved to a 35- or 36-hour workweek and declared themselves happier, healthier and less stressed, the country is now moving to make this an option for the majority of its workforce. My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

Ten years ago, Ford founded and operationalized a boutique integrated marketing agency, BRND Marketing Group LLC, the lead agency of record for Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD), a nonprofit that is building a comprehensive cultural and arts district in historic Lincoln Park, Newark, New Jersey.

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How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why

Ideas.Ted

Across the American West, ecosystems stressed by diminished snowmelt, drought, insect infestations and wildfire are changing forests from the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada. Ten percent of iconic Giant Sequoia trees died in wildfires in the Sierra Nevada in 2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 totaled 59.1

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Some questions about AI, a world drowning in content and the human centipede of creativity

Workplace Insight

One unintended but welcome result of the new fixation with AI is that many of the people who became experts on the workplace in 2020 are now experts on AI. This is a unique moment in time where we do have agency in how it shapes society” she said. And it goes both ways: the technology shapes us and we shape it.

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