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Appetite for hybrid working shows no sign of letting up at large firms

Workplace Insight

The report, “ Global Hiring Activity Trends & Signals – Q3 2023 ,” claims that sectors such as construction, insurance, banking & payments, technology and communications, and pharmaceuticals posted significant hybrid job roles during the third quarter (Q3) of 2023.

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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

Work Life

the Japanese company that owns Uniqlo, Theory, J Brand and other clothing brands, pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co., Banking giant Mizuho Financial Group offers a three-day schedule option. Fast Retailing Co., and electronics companies Ricoh Co. and Hitachi also began offering a four-day workweek in recent years.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” Let’s start with a simple question: how would you define your company? Most senior executives respond to this question by describing what the company is or what it does. This is quite understandable.

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Hot desking statistics & trends you must know in 2024 and onwards

ONEs Blog

Recently, executives at Europe’s largest bank also told to try ‘Hot Desking’, noting it comes as the bank pursues plans to shrink its office space by 40% in a post-pandemic shake-up. He said that the bank would implement a rule requiring two personnel to work at each desk , with the exception of branches.

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7 Best Practices To Improve Employee Listening Efforts and Build Trust

Great Place to Work

At Vertex Pharmaceuticals , No. Vertex Pharmaceuticals runs a “manager sounding board,” a group of 30 managers that represent various departments and locations. 71 on the 2023 100 Best, asks its eight resource groups to facilitate discussions and feedback to given to executive leaders about the employee experience at the bank.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

Mad in America

The middle class has come to understand genetics, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and is better educated in science and technology. I organized a report by the World Bank in 2016 called “Out of the Shadows” about mental health. Kleinman : It has to do with the development of an educated middle class globally.