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Virtual meetings can boost wellbeing and performance

Workplace Insight

The study presents a novel perspective on the impact of virtual meetings for employees. Wladislaw Rivkin, Associate Professor at Trinity Business School, led the research which entailed two comprehensive daily studies during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. 179 employees were surveyed across 1,071 workdays.

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

Success

That is, even the folks who couldn’t think of anything to do with the paper clip besides holding papers together were just as likely to write and direct a successful play as the people who had loads of MacGyver-type tricks for the humble office-supply staple. Divergent thinking doesn’t always predict creativity. But it still counts.

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How Your Office Can Go Green in 2013

Eco-Office Gals

Owing to increased global warming and rapidly depleting non-renewable resources, we have all started to look into ways in which they can save the environment and the Earth. Here are a few ways in which offices can contribute towards conserving the environment without much expense. ?? Reducing Energy Consumption. Save on electricity.

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Employers Beware: There Are Rising Legal Risks Of Rigid RTO Policies

Allwork

The post-pandemic era presents a unique challenge as employers grapple with shifting workforce dynamics. This case emphasizes the importance of ADA compliance and the need for employers to be flexible and consistent in accommodating employees, especially in changing work environments. In a lawsuit against Electric Boat Corp.,

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Leading Remote Teams? 3 Ways to Avoid Confusion and Burnout

Success

When you work remotely, the hallway conversations, office banter and overheard learning experiences—long a staple of office environments—are replaced with a vacuum of silence, save for the ping of chat notifications. This scenario presents a challenge for the modern leader, as a 9 a.m. To overcome this, you must: Be intentional.

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When the chairs took over the world and what it all meant

Workplace Insight

The new quest is for wellbeing and a return on investment, something rather more attractive and complex than a desire to merely avoid injury and litigation The design of the physical environment to make us comfortable, send messages to others or enhance our well-being and mood is a recurrent theme in both the domestic and commercial design press.

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Colour Coding Works.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was in back-to-back Committee meetings and I decided to use two different colours of folders, a blue one for the Committee members, with an attendance sheet stapled to the inside cover for my purposes, along with their meeting packages, and a red one for the Chair with everything the Chair was going to need.