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Fifth of firms failing to meet flexible working demands of staff

Workplace Insight

Employees are being denied opportunities to interact and collaborate with each other, with four-in-ten (40 percent) considering leaving their current job due to a lack of access to the right digital collaboration tools for flexible working. This comes as businesses fail to meet staff’s demands, with a fifth (20 percent) of human resources directors admitting they don’t know where to start in meeting their workforce’s flexibility needs.

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Hybrid Workspaces Gain Favor with Employers in India

Allwork

What’s going on: An increasing number of employers in India are favoring flexible office space solutions. According to Business Standard, 47% of Indian corporates are planning to expand their utilization of these spaces in the upcoming year. The findings were published by real estate consultancy firm CBRE. The data reveals that around 56% of respondents want more than 10% of their office portfolio as flexible spaces by 2025, according to Business Outreach.

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How Employers Can Support Employees Going Through Menopause at Work

Success

For decades, even centuries, women have suffered in silence during what may be the most successful years of their careers, enduring symptoms such as hot flashes, brain fog and mood swings. These symptoms were minimized, misunderstood, unnoticed and unacknowledged. But as older millennials hit perimenopause and menopause, that’s set to change. The topic of menopause is starting to enter the conversation, and workplace leadership is taking notice, as they should: Around 15 million women are workin

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Germany Proposes to Raise Minimum Wage in 2024 and 2025

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What’s going on: Germany has proposed raising its minimum wage by 3.4% to €12.41 ($13.53) per hour in 2024, followed by a further 3.3% increase to €12.82 per hour in 2025, according to Reuters. These proposals come from a government-appointed commission and are expected to be approved by the Labour Minister, Hubertus Heil. Why it matters: Germany is considered Europe’s largest economy, and the country’s policies greatly influence the rest of Europe.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How to Save Money on Your Car Insurance

Success

Saving money on car insurance can be a double-edged sword. You need to maintain enough coverage to ensure you’re fully protected if you’re in an accident. At the same time, you don’t want to spend more than necessary. Many people buy car insurance once and don’t think about it again unless they’re in an accident. But it’s a good idea to review your policy to ensure you have the best car insurance and check for a better price every six to 12 months, depending on when your policy renews.

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Business finance: The ultimate guide for non-finance people

BMT Office Administration

Are you eager to launch a startup or new business? Or were you recently promoted to a financial role in your organization? Either way, you’ll need to master the basics of business finance if you want to find success. Even employees not working directly in finance generally need a basic understanding of it to succeed. Nothing exists in a bubble, and business finance is no different.

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Overinflated Job Title or Complete Gibberish? Can You Tell The Difference?

Allwork

Overinflated job titles are often euphemisms for less-appealing jobs and an audacious means of attracting more candidates to a particular position. In some industries, gimmicky job titles have become the norm — leading to a culture of inflated titles across the board. On the plus side, an overinflated title can be a beneficial marketing tool and a quick way to boost recruitment and retain talent.

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Can AI Replace a Human Executive Assistant?

C-Suite Assistants

If you’re a C-Suite level executive you may be wondering if you really need a human executive assistant. And, if you’re an EA, you may be wondering if AI is going to replace your job. After all, can’t AI get all the information you need more quickly than a human executive assistant? Take a deep breath, this isn’t an either/or situation. For now, and for a long time to come, AI will be a tool to amplify the role of the human executive assistant to better support executives.

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The Fusion Office: Hospitality, Residential and Retail-Inspired Workplaces

Allwork

Making the office super comfortable and integrating touches of residential and hospitality can make a huge difference to return-to-office efforts. The most challenging part of the design process is ensuring the opportunity for the workplace to evolve as the user and the business evolve. The lines between retail, hospitality, residential and workplace are blurring.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Early detection of COVID-19 in the workplace

Workplace Insight

Most workplaces have returned to full operational capacity following the COVID-19 pandemic, with the majority of restrictions being lifted, much to the delight of staff. Unfortunately, the initial relief of newfound freedom has been short lived, as the relaxation of rules continues to result in surges of COVID-19 cases, forcing some production facilities to close down due to high levels of employee sickness.

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Quiet Quitting is Costing the Global Economy Trillions

Allwork

What’s going on: Data published by Gallup reveals that “quiet quitting” is costing the world’s economy around an estimated $8.8 trillion per year. The trend emerged during the pandemic when companies struggled to hire enough people to handle increasing workloads. Why it matters: Quiet quitting reveals the underlying issues in the workplace that could lead to employee disengagement and dissatisfaction.

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Managers struggling with workload in new era of work

Workplace Insight

More than three-quarters of employees report that it has become more important for them to receive support from their manager, according to Gartner. Simultaneously, managers are also facing increasing expectations and a greater workload from the organisation, including new responsibilities brought on by hybrid working. A December 2022 Gartner survey of more than 6,000 individual contributors and managers claimed that managers are twice as likely to report an increase in responsibilities versus i

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The S.O.S. Score: Your Guide to Perfecting Productivity Tool Selection

Productivityist

In our quest for productivity, choosing the right tools can make or break our success. However, the search for the perfect tool is not a one-size-fits-all endeavour. That’s why The S.O.S. Score is here – to guide you towards making the best choice possible. The S.O.S. Score is a scoring system that assesses tools based on Simplicity, Obviousness, and Scalability.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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A balanced approach: making hybrid working work, and accepting it isn’t optional

Workplace Insight

Hybrid working is back in the headlines – not that it ever really left. A recent report from the Centre for Cities warns hybrid working will result in an “unintended economic impact” and is calling on national government and the mayor of London to do more to remove barriers to getting people back into the office. It suggests a freeze on commuting costs and calls for better collaboration between the private and public sectors to make working in cities more appealing.