Success
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Breakthrough or burden? AI’s growing role in cutting costs and streamlining operations in the workplace proves a mixed bag—ushering in wins for some and losses for others. In key sectors like sales and software engineering, data shows that “Current generative AI and other technologies have the potential to automate work activities that absorb 60-70% of employees’ time today.
Workplace Insight
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The London office market is demonstrating strong signs of recovery, with declining vacancy rates and robust demand for high-quality spaces. Both occupier and investor activity surged in the third quarter of 2024, reflecting renewed confidence in the capital’s commercial real estate sector. Despite challenges posed by elevated supply levels, the market’s recovery trajectory points to a potential upswing in rents and investment activity heading into 2025, driven by stabilising vacancy rates
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Wellness 360
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Feeling distracted at work? It’s no surprise—constant digital notifications can make it tough to focus. So, a digital detox could be the reset you need. Think about organizing a digital detox program in the office. Whether it’s a one-hour break from screens or a full digital detox day, stepping away from technology can help you […] The post Disconnect to Reconnect: Benefits of a Digital Detox appeared first on Wellness360 Blog.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Mental health awareness is everywhere these days. Even the 2024 World Mental Health Day theme, “It’s time to prioritize mental health in the workplace,” reflects the growing focus on self-care. There’s a good reason for this. Happy employees create a positive ripple effect across the business. People want to work with and buy from happy people. Plain and simple.
McKensey
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Dutch businesses can embrace generative AI to speed up automation, increase productivity, and ease labor market tightness. What is needed to accelerate adoption and capture the benefits?
Spiceworks
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
A big challenge for sales managers is understanding and employing the right management styles to elicit the desired behavior from employees. Employing the right management style at the right time can reap rewards - and help your team reach their quotas. The post 4 Sales Management Styles You Must Know appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.
McKensey
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Capital expenditures need to be deployed strategically across metals and mining projects critical for the energy transition. Intervening early and setting a clear focus can help avoid issues.
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McKensey
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
David Nothacker, co-founder and CEO of sennder, shares how the company weathered the ups and downs of the growth journey—and used them as a launchpad for accelerating growth.
FirLyfe
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Looking for workplace wellness ideas to boost engagement and get results? Whether you’re launching your first wellness program or ready to revamp your current one, a few proven workplace wellness ideas can help you with the metrics that matter to: Encourage participation Drive engagement Enhance your company culture, and… Deliver measurable results We took a look at some of the most innovative workplace wellness ideas among top-performing companies and found 9 creative ways to help you boost eng
McKensey
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
New research offers business and technology leaders insights into the age-old challenge of improving IT productivity.
FirLyfe
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Looking for workplace wellness ideas to boost engagement and get results? Whether youre launching your first wellness program or ready to revamp your current one, a few proven workplace wellness ideas can help you with the metrics that matter to: Encourage participation Drive engagement Enhance your company culture, and Deliver measurable results We took a look at some of the most innovative workplace wellness ideas among top-performing companies and found 9 creative ways to help you boost engag
McKensey
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
After an unpredictable several years, nongrocery retailers in Europe are seeking to uncover pockets of growth. To succeed, they will need to navigate differences across markets and retail categories.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
By March 2015, an unnamed job seeker we’ll call “Mary” had grown frustrated. She had been trying in vain for almost two years to get work through staffing agency BaronHR, which places applicants in security, hospitality, transportation, and technical roles. Mary decided to visit BaronHR’s office in Carson, California, to inquire about a position in-person.
McKensey
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Money makes the world go round, but where did it come from? An award-winning geographer explains how he used data from every part of the world to visualize the development of finance over 5,000 years.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
I once worked in a psychiatric outpatient clinic in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. In a list of patients brimming with troubled young women, it became quite apparent how much the psychiatric field was influenced by modern cultural trends. One of the cases that had me questioning this was Emily’s. In her twenties, from an affluent, predominantly white neighbourhood, she was referred to me by her family doctor.
Vantage Circle
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Introduction Starting a new job should be an exciting experience, not a stressful one. The best employee onboarding software takes the hassle out of paperwork, streamlining the process for both new hires and HR teams to create a welcoming and efficient start. Research shows that effective onboarding processes can boost retention rates by 82% and improve productivity by over 70%, highlighting just how critical this phase is to long-term success.
Workplace Insight
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
At a time when digital content creators have become a major source of information for people, a new UNESCO survey suggests that 62 percent do not carry out any sort of rigorous fact-checking of information prior to sharing it. As well as demonstrating that fact-checking is rare, the survey finds that content creators have difficulty with determining the best criteria for assessing the credibility of information they find online.
Success
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
After nine years of divisive election rhetoric, many families are hanging by a thread as we head into the 2024 holiday season. Regardless of which side of the political aisle you are on, we can all agree that over the last decade, politics have taken a new direction. Who you vote for has become synonymous with what you value—and even with who you are as a person.
AdminDroid
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Microsoft has been introducing new features to enhance user experience and efficiency across its services. In the past year, Microsoft Teams has been upgraded with the New Teams experience with exciting features like intelligent recap, custom emojis, 2x faster experience, and more. Now, to further boost collaboration, MS introduced the new chat and channels experience by combining both which is currently in public preview.
Office Snapshots
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
&CO North is a new coworking space opening in September 2024 located in the heart of Jersey City’s Hamilton Park neighborhood at 220 9th Street. &Co’s first location opened in the area’s Paulus Hook neighborhood in 2019. Owned by local real estate developer Silverman Building, &CO North is a community & design-driven workspace brought to life by multi-hyphenate restaurateur, artist & designer Rebecca Johnson’s creative vision.
Success
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Goal setting is broken, and Caroline Miller wants to fix it. The author of Getting Grit and Creating Your Best Life , Miller says the problem is that too much of goal setting is based on anecdote-based “magic,” as she calls it, when there is science to back up a more productive way to set, pursue and achieve relevant goals. Her latest book, Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life , has been nominated for the Next Big Idea Club.
Office Snapshots
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Architects Carolina Rauen and Larissa Garbers are responsible for the design of the headquarters of Construtora e Incorporadora Cechinel, located in the city of Balneário Camboriú, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The 813m² office, on the seafront, has its own sector for receiving clients, suppliers and employees, creating a modern and sophisticated environment, which maintains connection with the surroundings and takes advantage of the landscape as part of the setting.
Vantage Circle
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
A manufacturing setting is far from a typical office aesthetic environment. Most facilities operate twenty-four hours and beyond without a day off. Working conditions are unfavorable for employees, lacking a safe environment, excessive noise, stifling heat, and poorly lit spaces. All these contribute to a challenging workspace, further aggravated by long shifts and physically demanding work.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Strong, influential women are increasingly in the spotlight today—in sports, politics, entertainment, and business (finally!). Yet, despite progress on many fronts, there is still a long way to go before we achieve true equity, particularly when it comes to women’s health. In addition to the nation’s discussion on reproductive healthcare, here is a sampling of what we know: Women’s life expectancy is at its lowest since 2006.
CoreHealth Workplace Wellness
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
In today’s high-pressure work culture, achieving a healthy work-life balance is increasingly critical — not just for personal fulfillment, but also for long-term physical and mental health. While the importance of balancing work and personal life affects everyone, men in particular face unique pressures due to societal expectations around success, stability, and often, providing for others.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Japan welcomed 3.1 million visitors in June, setting a record for monthly tourist visits, and that boom looks set to continue. Most of those visitors are drawn by the usual reasons to visit—the food, the rich culture that fuses the traditional and the modern, and the natural beauty—but Japan is also looking to attract high-paying knowledge workers through its new Digital Nomad Visa , introduced in March this year.
Workplace Insight
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Those who attended the last Workplace Trends conference will recall that regular contributor Paige Hodsman (Saint-Gobain Ecophon) and the organisers are conducting research into why some women or men are not always heard in their workplace. They are now reaching out to more people to complete a 10 to 15 minute survey to inform this pertinent research.
Work With Impact
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Building a better workplace begins with understanding the role of organisational culture in fostering lasting, positive change. When businesses undertake organisational change – a process involving major adjustments to adapt or improve key operations – a strong, healthy culture can provide essential support.
Workplace Insight
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 marked a milestone moment for artificial intelligence, bringing what was once a niche technology firmly into the mainstream. Suddenly, AI and especially Generative AI, wasn’t just the prerogative of data scientists and tech developers. It was a feature in everyday conversations, a presence in business strategies, and a catalyst for innovation across industries.
Productivityist
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Dr. Mithu Storoni , author of Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work , joins me to dive into the science of productivity. Mithu’s expertise as a neuro-ophthalmologist and her work in pupillometry bring a unique perspective to productivity, blending neuroscience with actionable strategies for optimizing performance. In this conversation, we explore the interplay between rhythms, creativity, focus, and energy.
Workplace Insight
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
A new report from consulting firm Bain & Company underscores the rising importance of older workers as global populations age and labour markets face growing talent shortages. The study focuses on the demographic of employees aged 50 and above, whose experience, stability, and institutional knowledge make them invaluable assets to businesses. It reveals that while older workers often demonstrate adaptability, problem-solving abilities, and a strong work ethic, organisations frequently overlo
Productivityist
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Dr. Mithu Storoni , author of Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work , joins me to dive into the science of productivity. Mithu’s expertise as a neuro-ophthalmologist and her work in pupillometry bring a unique perspective to productivity, blending neuroscience with actionable strategies for optimizing performance. In this conversation, we explore the interplay between rhythms, creativity, focus, and energy.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Small business owners have had a mostly positive reaction to a judge’s decision to strike down an overtime rule that would have qualified more workers for overtime pay. On Nov. 15, a federal judge in Texas blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
As she anticipates her estranged uncle’s return to the White House , Mary Trump isn’t expecting any future book to catch on like such first-term tell-alls as Michael Wolff’s million-selling “ Fire and Fury ” or her own blockbuster, “ Too Much and Never Enough.” “What else is there to learn?” she says. “And for people who don’t know, the books have been written.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ‘s team signed an agreement on Tuesday with President Joe Biden ‘s administration to coordinate with federal agencies and share documents, after weeks of delays. The Trump team also posted a separate ethics pledge on the website of the General Services Administration, which echoes the standard ethics pledge signed by other past presidential candidates, ethics experts say, with some notable differences.
Work Life
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Dr. Susan Lacy had been caring for transgender patients for several years in Tennessee when, in 2023, everything changed. In the span of a few months, the Republican-governed state banned healthcare providers from treating minors for gender dysphoria. The Memphis gynecologist, one of the plaintiffs who challenged the law in a case going before the U.S.
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