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What Can Workplace Design Practitioners Learn From Human Psychology?

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Perkins&Will’s Kim Rousseau takes a look at what today’s workplace design practitioners can learn from an 80-year-old theory of human psychology. Note: This isn’t a one-way street: Boomers and Gen Xers have just as much to learn from their younger colleagues as visa-versa).

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Unmasking the Corporate Return-to-Work Fallacy: A Genuine Approach to Junior Staff Development

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Focus groups indicated that only those junior staff with pronounced social skills and initiative were mentored in the “forced return” scenario, leaving those lacking these skills — and arguably in most need of mentorship — neglected.

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Does Returning to the Office Help Diversity?

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In 2019, before the pandemic, Meta committed to a five-year goal of doubling the number of Black and Hispanic workers in the U.S., However, thanks to remote work, Meta’s 2022 Diversity Report shows that it attained and even outperformed its 2019 five-year goals for diversity — two years ahead of its original plans.

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The Ultimate Layoff Survival Guide: How To Rebound From A Job Loss

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Handling rejection, especially in the worksphere, is incredibly uncomfortable and difficult; it’s best to not dwell and to just move on, but to also use it as an opportunity to learn and upskill. Set realistic goals and timelines for achieving these objectives.

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What’s Next to Be Your Best? 3 Personal and Professional Development Trends in 2024

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Not only do personal and professional development opportunities provide key benefits to employees—like learning new skills, boosting confidence and credibility, developing leadership skills and increasing earning potential—but employers greatly benefit too. An innovative upskilling approach is to find stretch assignments for staff.

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Ep 269: Beth Portesi – Lead Executive Assistant at Fivetran

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Beth Portesi is a seasoned executive assistant and founder of Next Level VA, where Beth is passionate about mentoring EAs and VAs. Her initial goal was to support a remote lifestyle, a pursuit that rapidly evolved into a remarkable success story.

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Disney’s Imagination Has Failed

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On the one hand, research at MIT found that remote work weakens the cross-functional, inter-team “weak ties” that form the basis for the exchange of new ideas that tend to foster innovation. The program involved several mentors. However, we also included two mentors from other teams. Yet is this true?

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