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

Allwork

Niche coworking encourages networking and innovation among like-minded professionals, allowing for a collaborative community that adapts to industry changes and supports member growth. This can include industry-specific workshops, networking events, and mentorship programs.

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Inside the Guernsey PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

During my time there I took the first PA qualification in Guernsey, my HR qualification and also qualified as a Legal PA. Aside from the network, what have been your career highlights to date? I would also recommend joining a local PA network. About the network…. What made you decide to set up the network?

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A Third Way to Classify Workers Gains Momentum

Small Business Labs

The passage of Prop 22 means that firms like Uber and Lyft can legally classify their drivers as contractors instead of employees.  Most countries refer to them as "dependent contractors" and they get some, but not all, of the benefits and legal protections associated with being a traditional employee. But the U.S.

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Working from home can present particular challenges for women

Workplace Insight

An area that has impacted teams across the country, and the world, has been working from home and other forms of remote work. Shared Parental Leave is a government-led legislation that was introduced in 2015 to provide husbands and partners the legal right to divide responsibilities as well as paid time-off work.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

Jan bit her lip and hoped that Laura had not accidentally tossed evidence the legal department might need in a harassment lawsuit. Such a management system utilizes information technology to organize and store records in electronic form. The second action opens up the company to potential legal and regulatory problems.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

It’s important to pay attention to the business matters at hand along with their legal aspects and personalities, he adds. It is not illegal for an information technology firm and a janitorial services company to form a partnership, but how many opportunities will that create?” Jennifer Schaus.

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Ten critical foundations for successful collaborative networks

BioTeams

A Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) is a voluntary and dynamic community of SMEs that commit to working together for a period of at least six months (ideally, twelve months) to collectively seek opportunities to participate in collaborative projects of mutual business advantage. Network Ground Rules. Network Development and Governance.