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Landlords and occupiers don’t see eye to eye on the decarbonisation of European real estate

Workplace Insight

With many occupiers often more focused on emissions from other aspects of their businesses, such as manufacturing or supply chains, the contribution that buildings make to the aggregate 37 percent global emissions from real estate can be underestimated.

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Fighting—and Winning—Above Your Company’s Weight Class

Success

Small companies can take business from a larger, better-financed and better-known competitor by fighting where they are strong and the opposition is weak. Another of my clients sells a commodity used in construction. Strategy: Avoid the competition’s strengths. It’s radically different, and it produces a radically better result.

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To boost productivity in the UK, we need to think big and different

Workplace Insight

The direct cost of avoidable error in the construction industry, for example, is around 5 percent of project value according to international studies highlighted by construction industry experts GIRI (Get It Right Initiative). ’ Similarly in the oil and gas sector, it’s circa 15 percent of project value.

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How Great Companies Prioritize Financial Wellness for Employees

Great Place to Work

Financial wellness , or an employees’ comfort and adeptness in handling their finances, has become a key part of the puzzle for helping employees thrive in 2023. employees are stressed about their finances, per a 2022 survey from PwC. With recession fears on the rise, employees are looking more closely than ever at their finances.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Through the four businesses she has founded, which span strategic services, design, construction and events, Burgess helps solve problems for good and create spaces and events that make you feel happy. From lead generation to business & finance fundamentals, no topic is too big or small to be tackled. Jolie Glassman. Jeremy Larson.

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The hidden creativity killer lurking in your organization

Work Life

In my early career in finance and strategy, I was conditioned to optimize every process for efficiency. Toyota revolutionized manufacturing with Lean principles, but their greatest innovation the hybrid carwasnt the result of efficiency. I have seen this firsthand in my work as a leadership advisor.

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Job market had more openings and fewer layoffs in October

Work Life

Hires fell by 269,000 to 5.313 million, pulled down by declines in construction, manufacturing, finance and insurance, professional and business services as well as the leisure and hospitality industry. There were fewer job cuts in the construction, manufacturing, leisure and hospitality industries. in September.