BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Operating in the ever-changing business landscape requires businesses to remain flexible and adaptive. One way to ensure that your business is appropriately aligned with your current business goals and market demands is rightsizing. This involves adjusting your company structure and allocating your workforce to support your current strategic plan and improve efficiency to support business growth.

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AdminDroid

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At some point, regardless of size and sector, every administrator has encountered the frustrating challenge of being locked out of their admin account. Whether it’s MFA failures, forgotten passwords, or system outages, there are times when accessing Microsoft accounts becomes impossible, putting your organization at risk. Microsoft Entra break glass accounts are designed to step in when the worst happens.

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McKensey

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From molecule and materials discovery to new applications and customer acquisition, AI can create opportunities across a range of promising new use cases in chemicals.

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Success

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Debts are double-edged swords in the financial world. They can make your dreams come true, help you reach your goals faster and even help you build wealth. Yet, they can quickly get out of hand if not managed properly. Efficient debt management is an indispensable part of ensuring your financial stability. It encompasses a range of practices: creating a financial plan, choosing a debt repayment method and developing healthy spending habits.

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Wellness 360

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, making it the perfect time to spotlight a growing health issue—diabetes. According to the NIH, more than 38 million adults in the U.S. are affected, and this number is expected to rise in the coming years. Moreover, understanding and supporting employees living with diabetes is crucial. When employers provide resources […] The post How to Manage Diabetes in the Workplace?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For years, I was the poster child for trying to achieve a perfect work-life balance. I juggled it all—work, family, personal time, you name it—and religiously followed every strategy in the book: time-blocking my day, making family time “nonnegotiable,” squeezing in early-morning workouts. And I took everyone’s well-intentioned advice to heart: “Give 100% at work!

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Welcome to Pressing Questions , Fast Company ’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions. Q: What can I do if I disagree with my performance review? A: Performance reviews aren’t well liked by many managers or employees. Many managers feel like it’s just another box to check and employees feel like they make no real impact in their career growth.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Max just closed his laptop after a brutal weekly check-in with his boss. The entire conversation focused on Max’s performance: how he’s missing deadlines and turning in subpar work, and how it’s forcing other team members to pick up the slack. But instead of thinking of ways to improve, Max begins coming up with all the reasons his boss is wrong and to whom he can complain.

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Office Snapshots

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The new ADP office in Ho Chi Minh City is a testament to our commitment to innovation, flexibility, and sustainability. The office’s design embraces a neutral aesthetic, reflecting the adaptable nature of an interior design firm that continuously evolves to meet diverse client needs. This design philosophy allows the space to serve as a versatile backdrop for a variety of styles and functions, underscoring our capability to tailor environments to any requirement.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Are you frustrated about something at work right now? We all go through periods of stress and annoyance—at least occasionally. Maybe you have a colleague who is subtly undermining you. Or a toxic boss who doesn’t recognize your contributions in important meetings. Or there’s a sexist client you have to deal with. Whatever the situation, most of us have experienced something at work that causes us emotional pain.

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Office Snapshots

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

All3Media, a prominent player in the global media landscape, embarked on a significant consolidation project to bring together three smaller offices into one cohesive workspace. The new location for this unified office was The Bond, a recently developed site within a listed warehouse building in Digbeth, Birmingham. This move was part of All3Media’s strategy to streamline operations and enhance collaboration among its diverse teams, which are known for producing award-winning, high-quality progr

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Success

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Just Eat Takeaway is selling Grubhub to Wonder, a delivery-focused restaurant chain, for $650 million just four years after acquiring the U.S. food delivery app in a multibillion-dollar deal. The Netherlands-based food delivery group, Europe’s largest, has been evaluating a departure from the U.S. since 2022 after a long and difficult road. Grubhub struggles with slow growth, eyes reinvention under Wonder Just Eat Takeaway acquired Grubhub in a $7.3 billion deal reached back in June 2020, aimin

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In the world of product development, after learning about what kinds of progress customers want to make in their lives, successful designers build prototypes to test their early ideas. They experiment with multiple rough mock-ups that they can change easily. Career choices benefit from experimentation, too. As we say in our book Job Moves , smart job switchers consciously hire their next job so they can make progress in their careers.

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McKensey

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Complexity, COVID-19, and competition have upended supply chain organizations. They can reignite revenue growth and deepen resilience by deploying AI-powered digital twins.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

When a company experiences rapid growth, there are usually more employees gunning for leadership positions than available titles. This means managing promotions requires a delicate balancing act to avoid causing resentment. A diverse group of experts, including CEOs and career coaches, offered tips for navigating these growing pains and suggestions for effectively tackling promotion dilemmas.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this episode, I spoke with GiANT Worldwide co-founder Jeremie Kubicek about his book “The Communication Code” and the communication framework he developed with his business partner Steve Cochram to help people become more effective communicators.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

E llen Vora is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. She’s the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. She considers the whole person and addresses imbalance at the root. Dr. Vora received her BA from Yale University and her MD from Columbia University. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Success

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Anyone who loves to travel loves gifts that fuel their wanderlust. And those who have to travel for work appreciate gifts that make their trips a little more bearable. We have something for everyone, from jet-set games to practical finds like the perfect suitcase and smooth sunscreen, all personally tested. Pack it up A first-rate organizer The No Reception carry-on hideaway duffel has adjustable internal organizers that can be moved around to accommodate different travel needs.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Warren Buffet, chairperson and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, once said , “The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an inner scorecard or an outer scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an inner scorecard.” Buffet’s insight highlights the importance of relying on an inner scorecard because an external one—measuring yourself against others—can be detrimental to both personal and professional growth.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A new report from AWA claims that office attendance and desk use continue to go up, although the provision of workstations has been reduced as part of an overall rationalisation of corporate real estate. The report also suggests that this may have reached its optimal point right now as just 13 percent of UK organisations are considering further downsizing, suggesting that most firms think they may have reduced their real estate as far as they can.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Jeff Patterson , author of The Yielding Warrior: Discovering the Secret Path to Unleashing Your True Potential , joins me for an insightful conversation about the power of yielding in all aspects of life. Jeff introduces the concept of yielding as a transformative strategy that goes beyond physicality to include mental and emotional realms. In our fast-paced world, learning to yield can help us create more intentional and harmonious relationships with ourselves and others.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Life science research has grown exponentially in recent years, driving an increasing demand for specialised laboratory spaces. These facilities – including wet labs, dry labs, and their supporting infrastructure – all serve a unique purpose. Like a Petri dish providing the perfect environment for scientific experiments, life science interiors need to balance precision with functionality.

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fm:systems

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

FMS:Workplace is the leading Facility Management Software, recognized by SelectHub for its excellence in asset, HR, maintenance, reporting, and safety tools

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McKensey

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Wellness is about more than feeling good. It’s a thriving business that is poised to keep growing.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

About 44% of U.S. employers with 500 or more employees cover drugs for weight loss in 2024, up from 41% in 2023, according to a survey from consulting firm Mercer released on Wednesday. Mercer also said 64% of U.S. employers with over 20,000 employees covered weight-loss drugs in 2024, compared with 56% last year. That includes the highly effective newer GLP-1 drugs Wegovy from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound that have been shown in trials to reduce weight by 15% to 20%, as well as o

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There are many perks of remote work. Research suggests that giving workers flexibility in where they work enhances workplace culture , improves productivity , and boosts profits. But there’s one growing pain that many teams are still trying to overcome: a feeling of disconnect from our duties, teams, and workplace among remote workers. Some have used this feeling of loneliness as a scapegoat for why workers should just return to the office five days per week.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Voters in California have rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the state minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026, the highest in the country. Opponents, including the California Chamber of Commerce, said it would have increased costs, led to higher taxes and pushed businesses to cut jobs. “With the economy and costs top of mind for many voters this election, that message appears to have resonated,” said Jennifer Barrera, the chamber’s president and CEO.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Even as the political attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts ramped up last year, many people still seemed to value the importance of DEI at work. The Pew Research Center found that in early 2023 , about 56% of workers believed DEI was “a good thing” for companies to embrace, though the sentiment was more prevalent among women and people of color.

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