Fri.Mar 21, 2025

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Simplification for success: Rewiring the biopharma operating model

McKensey

To compete in an increasingly complex market, companies will need to unleash distinctive capabilities, reduce low-value work, speed up decision-making, and harness AI and digital.

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Cultivating a Mindfulness Culture in High-Stress Environments

Attendance Bot

High-pressure work environments are often seen as the cost of doing businessespecially in fast-paced industries like tech, finance, and professional services. But when stress becomes the norm, it leads to burnout, disengagement, and high turnover, making it harder for teams to perform at their best. For HR leaders and People & Culture teams, the challenge isnt just acknowledging workplace stressits building a culture that actively helps employees manage it.

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Powering the remanufacturing renaissance with AI

McKensey

AI is more accessible than ever before, and it holds untapped potential for remanufacturing players across sectors.

Equipment 101
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Why Employees Stop Using Workplace Software + And One Simple Fix

Ask Cody

Our Founder & CEO, Allan Mrch, joins Sren Vas on this episode of Spatial Experience Design to discuss one of the biggest challenges in workplace software adoption: Why employees stop using it.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Investing in the Italian private healthcare services market in 2025

McKensey

Private companies are already playing a role in Italys healthcare system. A number of factors could help investors evaluate opportunities to improve care delivery and outcomes.

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5 Corporate Wellness Software Failure + How to Fix Them

FirLyfe

Your corporate wellness software was supposed to make things easier. Boost engagement. Lower healthcare costs. Deliver ROI. Instead, its failing you. Why? Most corporate wellness software is broken. Employees ignore it. HR teams wrestle with it. Simple tasks turn into time-consuming workarounds. Making changes is a tech nightmare every single time. Sound familiar?

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3 steps to help new CEOs manage their time

Work Life

As Ive coached CEOs over the years, Ive often been struck by how little they think about the way they deploy one of the companys most valuable assetstheir time. CEOs face unique time pressures. They have enormous responsibilities and a multitude of issues that need their attention. The way they allocate their time has major ramifications for the success of the business.

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The Role Of Leadership In Shaping A Recognition-rich Culture

Vantage Circle

With Expert Inputs from : Saurabh Deshpande - People Culture Expert Take time to appreciate, and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways. ~Bob Nelson Every time I reflect on the amazing bosses I’ve worked with, one thing always stands out- the way they made me feel. The ones I admired most didn’t just focus on deadlines and results. They took the time to acknowledge my efforts and celebrate all the small wins I had throughout.

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With AI, leaders need to re-engineer the workforce

Work Life

AI is fundamentally re-engineering how work is done, who does it, and why. From AI-assisted nursing tools enabling healthcare providers to serve more patients to robotics improving retail fulfillment efficiency, the change is monumental. Organizations must establish a common language around work to navigate this transformation effectively. This raises a critical question: Who bears the responsibility for preparing the workforce for the AI age?

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Zoom’s AI Just Got Smarter: New Tools to Automate Your Workflow

Success

Breaking new ground in video conferencing, Zooms AI companion made waves when it launched in September 2023, gifting millions of users with automated meeting management and generative assistance. Zoom unveiled its latest updates this week, including advanced agentic AI Companion capabilities. Work smarter and faster with Zooms latest agentic AI tools Zooms new agentic AI tools will be seamlessly integrated across its platform, enhancing Zoom Meetings, Team Chat, Docs and Whiteboards with intelli

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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31% of employees are actively ‘sabotaging’ AI efforts. Here’s why

Work Life

A significant proportion of the U.S. workforce is pushing back against Artificial Intelligence adoption at their jobs. According to a new study by generative AI platform Writer, 31% of employeesincluding 41% of Gen Z workersadmit to sabotaging their companys AI strategy by refusing to adopt AI tools and applications. As a result, roughly two-third of executives say Generative AI adoption has led to tension and division within their organization, with 42% suggesting its tearing their company apar

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Bridging the DEIB Leadership Gap: How a Lack of Support Affects Employee Wellness

CoreHealth Workplace Wellness

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) are essential pillars of a thriving workplace, yet many organizations struggle to provide the leadership support necessary to make these initiatives effective. A lack of prioritization and visible backing from leaders can result in employees feeling disengaged, unsupported, and overwhelmed, ultimately impacting their well-being and productivity.

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Chobani CEO: Why we’re now giving all workers at least 12 weeks of parental leave

Work Life

After Chobani owner and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya and his wife welcomed a baby in late 2015, he started to wonder whether his company was fully supporting its employees as they became parents. When he returned to work, he inquired about the companys parental leave policy. I asked, what happens at Chobani when someone has a baby or a new member of their families?

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How to Reduce Work Anxiety With the ‘OHIO’ Principle

Success

Fragmented working is something weve all been guilty ofmaybe youre even doing it right now. It shows up in subtle yet disruptive ways, like starting to type an email but then opening a new tab halfway through and beginning another quest. When you return to the email, you have to reprocess the task: Who is this email for, and what were you trying to accomplish?

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Want to lead better? Start by unlearning these leadership myths

Work Life

What if everything you believe about leadership is holding you back? A 2024 study by Gartner found that 69% of HR leaders dont think their leaders are fully equipped to lead. And according to Gallup , only 21% of employees strongly agree that their leaders actually inspire them to do their best. Thats a big gap between what leaders intend and what employees experience.

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Mula Design Studio Offices – Jakarta

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“Good Story, Great Design” Mula Design Studio embodies this philosophy in its head office, where daily aspirations shape a healthy and dynamic work culture. Instead of a conventional office setup with numerous desks and meeting rooms, Mula Office embraces a blended environment that seamlessly integrates living, dining, research, meeting, working, and socializing spaces.

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Rachel Platten on the mental health crisis that inspired her first album in seven years

Work Life

During one of the hardest nights of Rachel Plattens lifeamidst postpartum depression, debilitating chronic pain, and mental health challengesshe glimpsed the light at the end of the tunnel. I was in my studio and reached the apex of I cant take it anymore , she says. The bottom wasnt there. I just kept falling. In that moment, this wail came out of me that turned into a song.

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LVMH SSEA Offices – Singapore

Office Snapshots

The transformation of the LVMH SSEA office was driven by a vision to enhance circulation flow, expand office capacity, and create a work environment that seamlessly blends functionality with an elevated sense of hospitality. As a leader in luxury, LVMHs workspace had to reflect the sophistication, heritage, and innovation that define its global brand portfolio.

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How to unscramble healthcare for the U.S. workforce

Work Life

Lately it seems like collective uncertainty about the economy is mainly focused on one thing: eggs. This isn’t surprising. When the price of a kitchen staple like eggs nearly doubles in a year, it’s easy to make it a go-to symbol for the broader basket of financial anxieties many consumers are feeling. I get it, but I also worry all the egg-centric media coverage is overshadowing what is, for most households, a much bigger and more important line item: healthcare.

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Trigo Offices – Ramat Gan

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Trigo is a cutting-edge technology company transforming the retail industry through its innovative AI-powered checkout solutions. By enabling seamless shopping experiences with autonomous stores, Trigo is revolutionizing how retailers operate and how customers shop. The company thrives on precision, efficiency, and forward-thinking, which is reflected in the bold and industrial-inspired design of their office space.

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Pearls With a Purpose: Why Matt Harris Left a Lucrative Career to Pursue Pearl Jewelry

Success

Dreams are a bit like pearls. Something has to get inside your brain to inspire you to do what you never thought possible. For pearls to be made, an irritant must find its way inside the shell of its host. For humans, that irritant might be passion or purpose. For mollusks (e.g., oysters and mussels), parasites, crabs or worms can get into the lining of the shell and cause irritation.

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MAGA goal: Let’s traumatize federal workers

Minding the Workplace

Russell Vought at the podium During a speech delivered in 2024, Russell Vought, now the Trump Administration’s director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, called for mass firings of long-time federal employees, adding his wishes that these public servants would feel vilified and traumatized by being targeted. As reported by Pro Publica : We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected, he said.

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JPMorgan just dropped the term ‘equity’ from its DEI program

Work Life

JPMorgan Chase has long publicly championed diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Going forward, however, the bank will be embracing the term “opportunity” in lieu of “equity.” On Friday, the bank announced a notable change to the name of its DEI program. “We are changing ‘equity’ to ‘opportunity’ and renaming our organization to Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion (DOI) because the ‘e’ always meant equal opportuni

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