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85 Macquarie Street Spec Suites – Parramatta

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The 13-storey building, known as ‘85 Macquarie Street’ and delivered by Holdmark Property Group, features four ground level retail outlets and 11 office levels above, with the topmost level enclosing plant rooms. The building form responds to the solar plane with a series of terraced balconies to the top-level office floors.

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Why more middle class Americans are defining themselves as working class

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families who are unable to afford the basics of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care and technology. a retail salesperson, increased 2.8% a retail salesperson, increased 2.8% Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example: Rent is up 6.1% Car insurance is up 20.6% Outpatient medical services are up 8.3%

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Workplace violence prevention: 8 tips to improve office safety

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It also provides specific advice for those types of companies most likely to experience violence, such as late-night retail establishments, healthcare businesses and those with delivery drivers. And, if you’re regularly transporting cash, such as bank deposits, don’t follow a set schedule.

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What Looks Like a Corporate Credit Card but Might Better Suit Your Business?

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Or, you’d like to limit spending to specific merchants (for example, hotels, restaurants and transportation), but you’re getting charges for retailers or nightclubs or other kinds of merchants – after the money is spent. Or, they can’t get approved by the credit card company in the first place. Luckily, there are alternatives.

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Younger people put far less emphasis on flexible working than older colleagues

Workplace Insight

In travel and transport, retail, catering, and leisure sectors – where workers are more likely to be customer-facing and work on-site – far fewer workers feel like their time and attendance are being monitored more closely. The belief that employers are watching workers more than ever isn’t prevalent across all industries.

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Lockers: The New Unexpected Star Of Workspace Design

All Work

It’s important for product designers and retailers to understand their embodied carbon emissions , which relate to the manufacturing, processing, transportation, assembly, maintenance, replacement, and deconstruction and disposal of goods. 80% of Teknion’s component parts are manufactured in-house, they add. “For

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Kingfisher Offices – London

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A primary objective of the new Kingfisher office was decarbonisation, specifically reducing embodied carbon emissions from the interior fit-out through careful consideration of: raw material extraction, manufacturing and processing, transportation, installation of all building materials, replacement of materials, end of life, disposal and recycling.