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

Workplace Insight

The ongoing advancements in technology have made remote collaboration more feasible and seamless than ever before. Collaboration tools have become essential in ensuring the coexistence of the digital and physical workplace, both internally with employees and externally with clients.

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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

Work Life

Construction and utilities: building the future Construction Strong growth is in the cards for the domestic construction sector next year. construction spending hit a more than $2 billion record-high. Meanwhile, job growth slowed in October, in part due to the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

The Australian Government doesn’t recognize that withdrawal from psychiatric drugs is anything to worry about for the overwhelming majority of patients, so doctors here know only what the pharmaceutical companies and the expert advisory bodies influenced by those companies want them to know, which is effectively nothing useful to the patient.

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Neurofeedback is the newest mental health hack among entrepreneurs. Here’s why

Work Life

Neurofeedback is a non-pharmaceutical approach to improving brain health, mood, and cognitive disorders. ” One reason figures like Fallahpour are so bullish about neurofeedback therapy is that it incorporates cutting-edge technology with a noninvasive platform. “I What is neurofeedback?

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The Dangers of Precision Medicine: Mental Health Is Not a Battlefield

Mad in America

By blurring the lines between the literal and figurative, battlefield metaphors do more than explain similarities, they also construct them. As Dhruv Khullar observes, terms like ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ tend to create a perception of health as adversarial, setting a confrontational tone.

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Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being

Mad in America

In recent years this has hardened up, as information technology and population data have converged to allow larger and more convincing studies. The result is a set of findings which have yet to find a satisfactory explanation.

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How Great Leaders Help Employees Connect to Purpose

Great Place to Work

At Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a Bell Ringing ceremony is held to celebrate important milestones in the development of treatment of diseases. Consider communication barriers such as language differences or access to communications technology. We don’t have big, fancy, complicated words, or equations.