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Prioritising your phone over your partner affects women’s creativity at work

Workplace Insight

Focusing attention on your mobile phone instead of your partner doesn’t just strain your relationship – it also affects creativity at work, according to researchers from the Universities of Bath, Aston, and IESE Business School.

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Australian Labor And Greens Senators Support 4-day Work Week

Allwork

On Thursday, the Senate Work and Care Committee, chaired by Barbara Pocock of the Greens, called for policies that could drastically adjust work-life balance.

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How To Create Commute-Worthy Destinations

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As organizations explore how to best approach this new normal, many are establishing policies and considering the long-term implications for their employees and workspace. Flexibility and Choice A major step in creating or maintaining a successful hybrid work environment is realigning corporate policies with the organization’s culture.

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We Know We're Rude With Our Phones -- But We Don't Do Anything About It

On The Job

Employees used their phones to do just about everything -- banning them from work would be like asking them to work with both hands tied behind their backs. But the one thing that hasn't changed is that people are still annoying others with their phone use. They still yell into their phones. Work is stressful enough, right?

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Will The Future Of Work Require Mandatory Time Off?

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From benefit packages to company policies, required time off through financial incentivization is not a new practice, but it could become a new normal. Businesses like Goldman Sachs and We Are Rosie are looking into opportunities to ensure employees use their time off — in an effort to help improve productivity and reduce stress.

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6 Tips for Balancing a Successful Side Hustle

Success

Explore systems that could help you earn more money from your photography business without requiring you to invest more time in it, such as selling products online, outsourcing tasks or providing group training on common pain points for your clients. Leave the phone outside the room, grab paper and pen and see what bubbles up.

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A look back at The Stoddart Review: the once and future guide to workplace productivity?

Workplace Insight

The Stoddart Review , published in 2016, was one of the most significant reports of recent years to explore the role of the workplace for employee productivity in extensive detail and why the office environment was key for productivity purposes. This brings our current level of labour productivity to just 2.5

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