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Flexibility In Design: Turning A Workplace Into An Outdoor Oasis

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In the workplace, the pandemic changed everything: workers traded in cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. Workers traded in their cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. The Georgia BIOSCIENCE training facility has floor-to-ceiling windows opening up directly to nature.

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Offices Of The Future Will Be Uniquely Tailored To Each Company

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Others will take on new life as nonprofit centers, medical clinics, or even vertical farms. So are heavily closed-off cubicle farms. This environment of solitude and focus aligns with their buttoned-up, heads-down ethos despite being counter to recent trends. Giordano predicts the older buildings will increasingly be repurposed.

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Is There an Addict in the Cubicle Next Door?

On The Job

I had not seen her since my father's funeral eight years ago, but through family contacts I kept up with her health and addiction struggles. Addiction doesn't reside just on the street corner with junkies looking for the next fix -- it's also in the meeting rooms and boardrooms and cubicles where we work. She died last week.

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4 Ways to Increase Your Chances of Finding Remote Work

On The Job

The key is that an employer connects with you via technology while you do the same work you would as if you were sitting in a cubicle at an office. But then we learned that so much of medical work is looking at digital imagery, which can be done from another location. We were surprised at first," she says. Write well and often.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Today’s assistants are computer savvy, smart and up-and-coming, and consider themselves professionals in the workplace. Those who are skilled at regularly thinking on their feet as they come up with solutions and ideas both on the computer and on the job might be able to step into this role.

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Tips for Being Happier at Work

On The Job

If the janitor works for a medical research company, for example, he's helping even more people because his diligence in keeping areas safe and clean and that will mean that medical researchers will be better able to do life-saving projects. That will help increase your sense of satisfaction and happiness. Find common bonds.

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Celebrating National Customer Service Week by honoring the best

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Where employees are encouraged to voice their complaints, where learning experiences are based on following other good examples, and where employees are encouraged to volunteer and have fun when not working adds up to a working environment that revolves around happiness.