McKensey
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The financial services industry is changing. Leaders who approach banking transformations boldly and engage their whole team in the process may find more success.
Insperity
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Insurance brokers and professional employer organizations (PEOs) are supposed to be competitors, right? Wrong! Actually, brokers and PEOs can form mutually advantageous partnerships that result in better service for their clients. Furthermore, brokers themselves can benefit significantly from working with a PEO. Let’s explore how. The broker-PEO relationship Employee benefits brokers and property & casualty insurance brokers help their clients find and purchase comprehensive, high-quality co
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Office Snapshots
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Designed to meet the evolving needs of a modern workforce, the office provides a flexible and adaptable workspace that supports a cohesive office culture while allowing for future growth. The office design marks a significant departure from the pre-COVID model, which was centered around rows of individual desks and a mandatory five-day in-office schedule.
Work Life
DECEMBER 5, 2024
For months, my client Antonio wrestled with how to handle his direct report Zoe. Zoe was a senior manager who executed tasks without fail, ensuring accuracy and on-time monthly delivery of client invoices for their professional services firm. But her communication style and unpredictable energy caused frustration, drama, and last-minute scrambles for others in the organization, pulling them away from client work and reducing productivity.
Office Snapshots
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Vacons has inspired a dynamic work environment for Yamaha employees through the BLOOM concept, derived from the essence of sound. Upon entering the office, visitors are immediately welcomed by the brand message “Make Waves,” reflecting Yamaha’s core identity. Yamaha, one of the world’s leading companies in the manufacturing and distribution of musical instruments, selected Vacons to express their brand concept “Make Waves.” This concept captures the exhilarating moments o
McKensey
DECEMBER 5, 2024
A context window is how information is entered into a large language model (LLM). The larger the context window, the more information the LLM is able to process at once.
Office Snapshots
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Alter Studio was chosen to design the new office space for Elipse Engineering, crafting a work environment that reflects both the company’s dynamic nature and the functional needs of its employees. Alter Studio approach to the interior design was driven by a deep understanding of Elipse’s specific needs and requests. The layout was carefully planned to include a variety of solutions: a programming room, open-space workstations, private offices, a kitchen, a cafeteria, and hangout areas.
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Office Snapshots
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Rebel is not an ordinary office building, but an arena for knowledge sharing with a focus on IT and technology. Based on the building’s history, we have contributed to a modern and flexible framework around some of the most innovative and ambitious tech-heads in the country. Universitetsgata 2 has been transformed from an introverted 60s office building into an open and dynamic work arena.
McKensey
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Novel capital deployment and procurement approaches could help address the current challenges within the oil and gas industry’s upstream market, leading to increased value creation.
I/O at Work
DECEMBER 5, 2024
New research finds third-party reactions to mistreatment are more complicated than expected.
Work Life
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The holiday season is a perfect storm for stress. Often, there are a lot of things that need to happen in a short period of time. There are family obligations. You have to address year-end issues at work. Plus, you probably have to buy a few gifts, and—if you’re like me—you’re never sure how well those gifts will go over. So, what can you do to minimize the stress that often comes with the holidays?
McKensey
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Even though the industry will continue to face hurdles for the next few years, leaders can seize the moment to spur lasting improvements for their organizations and patients.
CoreHealth Workplace Wellness
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Workplace wellness programs have become essential for fostering employee well-being, boosting morale, and enhancing productivity. As these programs grow in complexity, organizations often face challenges in managing multiple initiatives, tracking outcomes, and keeping employees engaged.
Tanveer Naseer
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Looking to streamline your business? Every business owner should consider ways to streamline the operation as this can benefit the business in many different ways. Streamlining can improve efficiency, maximize productivity, make work easier for your employees, and increase customer satisfaction, just as a few examples. Additionally, business operations are.
Great Place to Work
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Here are the topics that resonated with readers this year. Another year is coming to a close, and leaders are reflecting on the lessons learned in 2024. The past 12 months have been busy for HR teams, with a tumultuous presidential election, a vehement debate over diversity & inclusion, and increasing demands that everyone return to the office. The uncertain financial picture in 2025 poses plenty of new questions for leaders in the workplace.
Workplace Wellness
DECEMBER 5, 2024
As the new year approaches, many of us reflect on the past year and set new resolutions with hopes of self-improvement. While traditional resolutions like "losing weight" or "exercising more" often fall by the wayside, the key to lasting change lies in developing sustainable, healthy habits. Here are five healthy habits that can positively impact your physical and mental well-being in the upcoming year: Prioritize Consistent Physical Activity Exercise is a cornerstone of good hea
Yarooms
DECEMBER 5, 2024
YAROOMS x Metrikus integration combines YAROOMS' comprehensive workplace management software with Metrikus' building data analytics capabilities to empower data-driven workplace decisions Provides clients with access to key building and workplace analytics, providing a single source of truth for your building data. The partnership will also allow clients to monitor sustainability metrics to support ESG reporting YAROOMS , a leading workplace management platform, today announced a strategic partn
People Business Psychology
DECEMBER 5, 2024
“Our customers are our priority” This value statement I picked just now from a large for-profit company with a presence across Europe. It seems to be a self-evident statement; after all, are there entities that rely on customers where those customers are not their priority? You would be forgiven to feel that the value statements that are thrown at us by companies, organisations and even politicians sound a bit hollow nowadays.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 5, 2024
T he history of mental health in Oregon begins with the stories of two fur trappers, both starting in the early 19th century. The first was Archibald Pelton and the other, a better-known name in Oregon, John Day. Each had a connection to the grandiose intentions of a New York businessman, John Jacob Astor, considered to be America’s first millionaire, whose mission in life was to monopolize and control a triangle of trade: starting with furs in the Northwest, selling them in China, and bringing
BMT Office Administration
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Is a project management office right for your business? Are you having trouble keeping your organization’s projects on track? Implementing a project management office (PMO) could solve your problems. A PMO is a department, unit, or group of individuals who create and oversee all project management methodologies at an organization. They maintain a business’s project management standards and provide employees with the tools and frameworks to ensure consistent success.
Success
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Where I’m from, the “ Midwest goodbye ” is taught to you from birth. It’s a carefully choreographed dance where a guest announces they’re leaving while inevitably staying another ten minutes to multiple hours. For the uninitiated, I’m told it can feel like you’ve landed on an alien planet of inefficiency, but for a born and bred Midwesterner like me, the opposite is true.
Work Life
DECEMBER 5, 2024
This summer, I traveled to Vicenza, Italy, to support a dear friend who had decided to pursue her lifelong passion for opera singing. At 53, she refused to let her dreams quietly fade into retirement. Instead, she boldly embarked on a journey to become a professional opera singer, performing on a stage she had only dreamed of in her younger years. As I watched her sing with confidence, grace, and the wisdom that comes with age, I realized that life’s most fulfilling moments often begin when we d
Success
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Artificial intelligence has emerged as the cornerstone of Amazon’s ongoing evolution, with the tech giant unveiling a series of ambitious innovations over the past year. Among the most significant advances: the launch of a new large language model (LLM) for Alexa , the introduction of Amazon One , a biometric palm recognition system for payments and access, and the announcement of an $8-billion investment in the AI startup Anthropic.
CoreHealth Workplace Wellness
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Behavior change is one of the most difficult things for people to accomplish. To change behaviors and habits, especially long standing ones, a fundamental shift in values and beliefs need to happen. Achieving Behavior Change with Wellness Incentives In most cases, unless motivated, most employees will have a hard time making healthy lifestyle changes.
Success
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Launching your first business can be a rewarding but challenging endeavor, commonly motivated by a desire to pivot from traditional employment or bring a unique idea to life. In fact, according to survey results from Morning Consult and Samsung Solve for Tomorrow , 50 percent of Gen Z aspires to start their own businesses. The report revealed that young people are increasingly disillusioned with the traditional workforce, desiring more flexibility and opportunities to make a difference.
Work Life
DECEMBER 5, 2024
An animal testing laboratory at Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain technology company was found to have “objectionable conditions or practices” by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it to address the problems. FDA inspectors identified the issues at Neuralink’s animal testing facilities in California in June 2023, several weeks after the agency had given the company the green light for a small study of its brain implant in humans, according to th
Success
DECEMBER 5, 2024
By nature, introverts would rather stay in than go out. They prefer getting cozy under a blanket over dancing all night. Introverts need time and space to recharge , alone. Some people try to encourage their introverted friends, family or coworkers to abandon the solitude they desperately need. However, you can show your favorite introverts that you support their desire to fly solo.
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