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Redefining employee experience: What’s changed and why it matters

Insperity

Employee experience may sometimes feel like a buzz word to describe a never-attainable target of an ideal workspace where employees are happy, nurtured, fulfilled and productive 100% of the time. That sounds amazing, but it doesn’t really reflect the reality of focusing on employee experience or, more specifically, the evolution of employee experience and how to make strategic changes to nurture your workforce and move engagement – and ultimately your bottom line – in a positive direction.

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Work from Home Exploration

Office Skills

There has never been a better time for work from home exploration. The COVID-19 pandemic permanently changed the way the world works forcing many of us to not only loose […] The post Work from Home Exploration appeared first on Office Skills Training.

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10 gift ideas for employees returning to the office in 2024

Office Space

With remote work still being the preferred work method for many employees worldwide, getting your staff to return to the office, even on a hybrid basis, may be challenging. It sometimes requires more than a simple mandate from the higher-ups to get employees on board with in-office work. One way to ease this transition is to welcome employees with personalized, practical gifts upon arrival.

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Leading from the inside out: Why CEOs must make time for self-reflection

McKensey

The authors of a new book on the journey of leadership explain why this era of unprecedented global change demands a new style of leadership—one that reflects the inner world of the CEO along with the needs of organizations and employees.

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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

Mad in America

W orld Elder Abuse Awareness Day was on June 15 th. Father’s Day was June 16 th. Many are not aware of WEAAD. I only know it exists because of a book I started co-writing with a friend. A legal guardian and conservator have hijacked her father’s life and estate and she cannot get him out. To date over half a million dollars have been billed to estate; he is drugged to incapacitation so that he cannot defend himself in court.

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Bumble Brings AI to Dating; Wayback Machine in Search Results; Fake Tech Interviews Include Malware

Spiceworks

AI, Big Tech, and Cybersecurity. We like to call those the ABCs of Tech, are we've got the latest on all three in our daily tech news roundup. Here are today's essentials. The post Bumble Brings AI to Dating; Wayback Machine in Search Results; Fake Tech Interviews Include Malware appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Five fundamental truths: How B2B winners keep growing

McKensey

Our latest B2B Pulse Survey reveals that across all sectors and regions, market leaders continue to experiment, invest, and commit to omnichannel sales as the path to sustainable growth.

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A data leader’s operating guide to scaling gen AI

McKensey

Deploying generative AI in the enterprise requires a data-centric road map. Leaders can use a well-defined operating model to successfully scale the technology.

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How to get freelance hiring right 

Work Life

Being business savvy isn’t about keeping every employee you hire. It’s about attracting the right people for your company and empowering them to do their best work. Even if those people are freelance workers. In the creative sector I’m part of, it’s right to be less afraid of high turnover, and being more open to continuous movement is good for any organization that values creativity and ideas.

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How Ventas used machine learning and AI to create a net-zero plan

McKensey

A real estate company committed to reaching net zero took a more efficient—and pioneering—approach.

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Landmark Group Headquarters – Dubai

Office Snapshots

Landmark Group approached AAID to design its new offices situated in JAFZA ONE, spanning two buildings across a total of nine floors. The primary objective was to accommodate a variety of retail brands within the conglomerate, with each brand allocated its own floor. The client wanted to create an environment that encouraged growth and collaboration of its brands, fostering mutual support among employees.

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OKRs for Employee Engagement: A Powerful Tool (With Examples)

Vantage Circle

Did you know, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) were initially popularized by tech giants like Google and Intel to drive business outcomes and enhance employee engagement. Since then, it has been adopted by companies across various industries, from startups to Fortune 500 corporations. The framework aligns individual efforts with organizational objectives, fostering a sense of purpose and measurable impact.

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Your new C-suite leaders might be making things sound worse than they are. Here’s how to deal with it.

Work Life

Your organization has just hired a new executive, and they immediately start bad-mouthing the systems you and your colleagues spent years building. You’re a little confused as to how this is meant to inspire your team to make things better. Are they just trying to lead by fear? Possibly. But some leaders also think it’s in their best interest to bad-mouth their new company’s existing processes.

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Author Talks: How to make skill development count in the digital age

McKensey

Can technology replace human skill acquisition? The rise of new technologies and automation is compromising the real-world learning that apprenticeships provide. Here’s what you can do about it.

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Why the “Personal Brand” needs to die

Work Life

When you hear the word “ personal brand ,” do you groan? I get it. I’ve helped hundreds of professionals struggling to craft their “personal brand.” They range from founders and executives to managers and professionals, and they all agree on the importance of the personal brand. However, they consistently get stuck. I know why. The assignment is tough because the underlying assumptions are wrong.

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ABB Group Offices – Bangkok

Office Snapshots

One of the defining characteristics of a great experience with any organization is the inclination to work with the same team time and again. SL+A Group continues to build on the positive relationship with ABB, a global leader in digital technologies for industry. Noting the success of past designs for ABB’s showroom and offices, this new 1,700 square meter space located at the iconic Q House Lumpini Building in Bangkok would closely follow ABB ‘Brand Principles Manual’ – with guidelines f

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Changing your career? 6 steps to pivoting successfully

Work Life

If you are like most people, your work life will not follow a straight line. The average person changes careers five to seven times during their working life. I pivoted four times in my career. I went from musician, to academic, to speechwriter, to entrepreneur. Each of these major shifts led me to a better place and resulted in a dynamic career I couldn’t possibly have envisioned or planned.

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A Rise in Independent Workers Highlights Trends and Concerns Facing the Gig Economy

Success

As more and more people rethink the traditional career ladder and in-office nine-to-five jobs, many are also reconsidering the wisdom of relying on a sole source of income. Welcome to the gig economy, a bustling and growing arena that offers workers with sellable skills flexibility, control and variety. The projected gross volume of the gig economy in the United States has been on a steady rise over the last six years, more than doubling from $204 billion in 2018 to $455.2 billion in 2023, accor

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An ultimate guide to future-proofing your career

Work Life

In an age where artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the workplace , workers across industries are grappling with a difficult question: How can we stay relevant? Especially in a world where machines are increasingly capable of performing tasks once exclusive to humans, many workers are trying to future-proof their careers. The answer lies in understanding which skills are uniquely human, and cannot be replicated by technology, which I call “humics.

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What Can Embracing Personal Accountability Do For Your Private And Professional Life?

Success

Personal accountability means accepting responsibility for your actions, words and behaviors and their consequences. Often, we have an initial impulse to pass the blame or cover up our mistakes, but personal accountability requires that we resist that urge. Holding yourself accountable for what you do and say can deepen your personal and professional relationships while continually improving yourself.

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The vital role trust will play in the AI-powered future of work

Work Life

One of my earliest childhood memories is visiting my granddad’s clothes factory in the East End of London, happily sitting in the corner sorting out the boxes of different colored buttons. He knew all his employees and the details of their families’ lives. Trust was held together by the walls of the factory and face-to-face interactions.

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Top Employee Wellbeing Initiatives for your workplace in 2024

Wellics

Do you want to improve employee experience in your organization? Are you planning to hire and retain top talents for a long time? If so, you must implement employee wellbeing initiatives.

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Lifestyle Spending Accounts: A Comprehensive Guide in 2024

Wellness 360

Are you an HR leader looking for ways to enhance employee benefits? Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs) could be the game-changer you’ve been searching for. LSAs offer employees a company-funded benefit that allows them the flexibility to choose how and where they want to invest in their well-being. Whether it’s education, family care, fitness, or mental […] The post Lifestyle Spending Accounts: A Comprehensive Guide in 2024 appeared first on Wellness360 Blog.

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Zooming from the bathroom? Our meeting bad habits revealed in poll

Fellow

At Fellow, we’ve dug deep into company-wide meeting data, such as how many hours we spend in meetings per week, or how many attendees is too many attendees. However, as remote workers, we all also have our own personal meeting habits, even if they’re not always the recommended best practices. Recently, SEO expert Eli Schwartz ran a poll on X asking workers about their personal meeting habits and the results may surprise you.

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How Do I Request a Change in My Contract?

Success

Though there are notable upsides to freelancing and working with clients, being a solopreneur means you have to advocate for yourself. Without a boss to recognize and reward your work, the ball is in your court to prompt a contract change. Do you feel you deserve a raise or an expanded scope of work? Adopt the following strategies to ensure that the outcome you’re looking for materializes.

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Javelin Offices – London

Office Snapshots

Our clients foremost concern was maintaining a sense of community and culture. Our challenge was moving the team from a single floorplate to a space spread across four floors. They wanted their environment to support a feeling of closeness among teams that would now be physically further away from one another and they wanted to avoid creating a sense of hierarchy within their layout.

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THE LIGHT PREVAILED by Diana Spore

Mad in America

The primary wall stood strong and tall, until she started to chisel her way through She had been told that she would never recover — From a severe psychotic break that resulted in a psychiatric hospitalization A permanent designation of a psychiatric diagnostic label, a psychiatric disability Stones comprising the wall started to crumble as she Connected with others who believed in her and her potential for recovery Discovered meaningful volunteer work, found ways to make a difference Espe

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A definitive 3-step guide to giving negative feedback, according to neuroscience

Work Life

Whether you’re in-person and sitting on opposite sides of a desk, or you’re remote and separated by screens, few experiences at work are as heart-pounding and stress-inducing as a feedback conversation between manager and employee.  Managers fear creating a resentful employee if they give a less-than-glowing assessment , and employees may fear for their job security and reputation within the company.

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Zooming From the Bathroom? Our Meeting Bad Habits Revealed in Poll

Fellow

At Fellow, we’ve dug deep into company-wide meeting data, such as how many hours we spend in meetings per week, or how many attendees is too many attendees. However, as remote workers, we all also have our own personal meeting habits, even if they’re not always the recommended best practices. Recently, SEO expert Eli Schwartz ran a poll on X asking workers about their personal meeting habits and the results may surprise you.

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Perception vs Reality Is A Big Problem For Assistants

Bonnie Low-Kramen

By Bonnie Low-Kramen This is an important message to the assistants and support staff of the world. We are facing a serious image problem and it is threatening the future of the profession. Here’s what I mean. It’s happened again. You probably read the story of the Friends actor Matthew Perry’s tragic death by an overdose of the drug ketamine. He died on October 28, 2023.

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What Bank of America learned about employee happiness when it offered paid sabbaticals

Work Life

Sometimes, when you launch a new employee benefit , uptake is slow. It’s hard to build awareness or buy-in, even if it’s a very strong offering. But as it turns out, that wasn’t true here at Bank Of America when we started offering folks paid sabbaticals to simply. not work. In 2023, we launched a sabbatical program for long-standing Bank of America employees who had been with the company for 15 years or more.

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Labor markets are still tight. It’s a long-term issue, and not just in the US

McKensey

The countries that have grown their overall economies fastest since 2010 did so primarily by hiring more workers. But today, there aren't many workers in reserve. Labor markets remain comparatively tight across most advanced economies, despite more recent softening. This tightness isn't simply a lingering effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather, it reflects a sustained long-term trend driven by aging workforces and increased labor demand, write Anu Madgavkar and Olivia White in Barron's.

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We show prospective hires everyone’s salary. Here’s why

Work Life

Transparency has become something of a buzzword in the workplace in recent years. Many companies have adopted a policy of transparency, noting the proven benefits of sharing information about business operations. Yet, so much of this conversation ignores the most powerful element of a truly transparent workplace: pay transparency. It’s understandable.

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Unconditional Cash: Does Universal Basic Income Increase Entrepreneurship?

Success

In July, OpenResearch released the results of its Unconditional Cash Study. This study is the largest unconditional cash study to date, and the results have shown that increased access to cash does improve financial well-being and savings. The results of this study have provoked dialogue concerning the role of unconditional cash and universal basic income (UBI), particularly as technology continues to improve.

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The 3 kinds of intelligence workplaces need to succeed

Work Life

As a management consultant jetting in and out of hundreds of organizations across four continents, I learned to differentiate what distinguished successful change leaders from those who got less-than-desired results. I noticed that many leaders felt comfortable with technical changes, such as designing a new store layout, sketching an arch bridge, drafting a schedule for data migration, or creating a plan for a product launch.

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Norfolk Southern fires CEO Alan Shaw over relationship with legal chief

Work Life

Norfolk Southern said Wednesday it has fired CEO Alan Shaw for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. His ouster comes after two difficult years in the top job and just days after the company’s board announced it was investigating him for alleged ethical lapses. The Atlanta-based railroad said Shaw had an inappropriate consensual relationship with Norfolk Southern’s chief legal officer, who was also terminated.

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