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Coworking Plugs the Gap Between Half-Empty Offices and Lonely Home Offices

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For some companies, such as Miriam Dushane’s Alaant Workforce Solutions, it solves the problem of paying rent on a half-empty traditional office. . Frankly, it’s probably one of the best decisions we ever made,” Dushane said in an interview with FastCompany. . They’re not the only company making the switch.

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The Secret Life Of Colleagues

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Many remote workers have learned to create a facade — concealing the real state of their home offices. Recently, the Guardian published an article featuring images of real versus fake virtual backgrounds (based on readers’ photographs depicting both set-ups).

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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

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the label of “chronic procrastinators,” reveals psychology professor Dr. Joseph Ferrari, in an interview with American Psychology Association. The first coworking office was established in 2005 by American programmer Brad Neuberg, after he became “fed up of unsocial business centres and his lack of productivity when working from home.”

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Being furloughed affected people’s sense of time and relationship with work

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Through interviews, I’ve researched the impact of this time on 35 people who were furloughed under the scheme. Several of the workers I interviewed felt the absence of work acutely. At one point, she stayed up for 22 hours in order to exhaust herself and reboot her sleep patterns.

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How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work – A personal interview with Bonnie Low-Kramen by Karen Mangia for Thrive Global

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As a part of our interview series called “How Employers and Employees are Reworking Work Together,” we had the pleasure to interview Bonnie Low-Kramen. Based on 1,000+ interviews, Bonnie’s new book about the workplace is called Staff Matters and will be published in early 2023. I think we need to get a divorce.”

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Jeremy Fennema – CTO and Founder of Fennema.io | How Emerging Tech is Reshaping Business Models and Workplaces

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It was a total screw up, actually. So Internet of things like small edge computing devices, typically up till now they’ve just been intelligent sensors or small microprocessors. When we talk about artificial intelligence, Bell of the ball, as you mentioned it, we all look at the real flashy stuff up front.

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Podcast 146: Tips for supporting staff remotely

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You can see the video of this interview here. Question for you: What about all those dang emails you supposedly subscribed to that are clogging up your inbox? My sponsor, Clean Email, has a Smart Unsubscriber function to do that cleaning up for you and keep your inbox tidy. You can sign up with my special link by clicking here.

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