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Going In Circles? Good!

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Designers encourage product manufacturers to include recycled content, lower VOCs, streamline manufacturing processes and track embodied carbon. The Carbon Leadership Forum defines embodied carbon as “greenhouse gas emissions arising from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal of building materials.”

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7 Sustainable Work Design Brands For The Eco-Conscious Worker

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Learn more in our website policy here. Most of the Mater collection is labeled and manufactured with FSC-certified wood. Bolon produces its own raw materials and mainly works with suppliers within a 25-mile radius, which means less transportation is required, and therefore less carbon emissions are produced.

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Could 3D Printing Be The Future Of Sustainable Workspace Design?

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Allwork.Space spoke to Michael Fried, Bene’s CEO, to learn more about their circular production techniques and the future of sustainable workspace design. The collection was designed in collaboration with Pearson Lloyd , Bene’s long-standing design partners, and manufactured by the London-based eco startup, Batch.Works.

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Why the Future of Work Isn’t About ‘Going Back’ with Melissa Marsh

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What Youll Learn Why the workplace is at a midpoint of evolution and what comes next. So we were at this risk that we’re not just going back to 2020, we’re going back to 1990 or 1980 and applying a sort of industrial era or a manufacturing sensibility in the physical work environment.

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How to navigate the seismic shifts in workplace rules and roles in 2024

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Work is assessed according to where the employee can work—either on site or anywhere, and the level of customer interaction—either standalone right up to fully hands-on: Highly hands-on, on-site workers include emergency services, early education, travel and hospitality, and transport roles that can only be performed in person.

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Is College Still Worth It?

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Yet college—in the traditional sense of a bachelor’s degree from a four-year institution of higher learning that a student pursues full time on campus—is still imaginatively linked with the supposed American Dream and assumed to be the one and only road to success. Here’s a head-scratcher. Reinventing apprenticeships.

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KI Postura+ chair reaches first milestone on journey towards 100 percent recycled content

Workplace Insight

KI has confirmed that Postura+ will begin its transition to a product for the circular economy, with all one-piece chairs manufactured from December 2022 set to contain at least 30 percent recycled polypropylene.