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5 Ways to Gain Control of Your Home Office

On The Job

But while co-workers see you as the poster child of organization, you hide a dirty little secret: Your home office looks like a typhoon just hit. Family members have dumped various things in your office, including an unused exercise bike, an old video game system and what appears to be the inside of the broken toaster.

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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

Success

Her top suggestions: Establish a work-to-home transition: Your workday needs a hard stop—your brain can’t optimize for home or family life if it’s still in work mode. This helps your mind relax and focus on sleep preparation instead of stressing over tomorrow’s to-do list. Don’t get mad. Just plan what you can around that.

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How Workplace Design Can Help Attract Gen Z

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This article was written by Salma Siddiqi and was originally published on Work Design Magazine. Concerned about mental health and wellness – grow­ing up in an age of increased stress and anx­i­ety caused by social media, Gen Z pays close attention to their mental health and are actively bringing more awareness on the matter.

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The Power of Strong Friendships in Strengthening Well-Being

Success

Having strong friendships is important for everybody at all times but especially so for someone enduring a massively stressful situation like he is—frankly, like we all have in the past few years. And now more of us are going to lock ourselves in home offices for eight or more hours a day. We’re already lonely.

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Working From Home a Challenge

On The Job

But here is one thing I know for sure: As soon as my butt hits the chair in my home office, I will have visitors. For some reason, home offices often are an afterthought. You cannot look around too much when you’re working from home or you’ll notice the dishwasher that needs unloading or a new magazine you want to read.

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Always connected in the age of disconnection

Workplace Insight

Indeed we created this magazine and the Workplace Insight platform to highlight those problems and the potential solutions, to hold better conversations and find better ways of working focused on the needs of individuals. “The This feature appears in Issue 10 of IN Magazine. They didn’t share one in the past, they won’t in the future.

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Legendary Entrepreneur Naveen Jain Wants Nothing More Than to Change the Way Humanity Lives

Success

We’re sitting in the home office of his estate along the banks of Lake Washington, just outside Seattle—not far from the homes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Then at some point, he tells me why he does what he does—and he stresses that it’s not about the money. You get to create the future ,” he reminds me.

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