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Customizing Coworking Spaces for Niche Markets: Smart Strategy Or Risky Move?

Allwork

Specialized spaces within coworking environments are trending, providing tailored amenities and designs for niche industries to foster creativity and collaboration. Imagine a community where creativity flows freely, where expertise is revered, and where collaboration fuels innovation. What sets these businesses apart?

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Reviving flexible workspaces – a guide to saving failing operations

Workplace Insight

As the demand for adaptable and collaborative working environments continues to rise, landlords and operators of flexible workspaces need to ensure that what they offer is meeting customer demands. Many operators of flexible workspaces will consider stepping into an existing supplier contract where it brings benefit.

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The Paradox of Increasing Business Travel; Skift's 2020 Travel Trends

Small Business Labs

Key quote from the report on this trend: Video and digital collaboration tools have transformed the modern workplace. Today,  employees can easily collaborate with co-workers around the world, offering a huge boost to productivity and what would seem to be growing opportunities to reduce travel costs.

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AI Is Transforming The Future Of Smart Buildings

Allwork

One example of this is a validation project we undertook with a supplier of smart sensors. One of our clients, a global entertainment company, has seen a reduction in service cost by over 50% by employing these tools in its London headquarters.

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Businesses need to take real action to create a more sustainable workplace

Workplace Insight

One thing that has always been a main concern for companies is cost. There is a perception that to make a significant and lasting change will mean significant, additional investment that is difficult to find when costs are rising everywhere, and margins are under pressure. Changes don’t have to be massive to have an impact.

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Online Platforms Enabling the Rise of Global Micro Outsourcing Firms

Small Business Labs

Glocalization  refers to the integration of local differences in the cost and availability of skills to a standardized global structure that enables their use. This is also referred to as geoarbitrage, which is tapping into lower cost labor from lower cost countries.   But U.S. in greater numbers.

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To boost productivity in the UK, we need to think big and different

Workplace Insight

The direct cost of avoidable error in the construction industry, for example, is around 5 percent of project value according to international studies highlighted by construction industry experts GIRI (Get It Right Initiative). ’ Similarly in the oil and gas sector, it’s circa 15 percent of project value.