fm:systems

JUNE 19, 2025

Explore strategic office space management techniques that boost productivity, enhance employee satisfaction, and adapt to evolving work patterns.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2025

Remember when the pandemic hit and everyone started working from their kitchen tables? That massive shift didn’t just change where we work—it also transformed how we approach work itself. As millions of Americans got a taste of autonomy and work-life integration, they began demanding workplaces that recognize their whole humanity—environments built to support resilience in a world where collective trauma and uncertainty have become our daily reality.

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

As a proud Gen Xer, I remember that most of my college buddies and I had similar aspirations: land a full-time job, hope the hours weren’t too brutal, pay off our loans, maybe buy a car and, one day, a home. Now, as the CEO of a company with a growing Gen Z employee base, I’ve found it fascinating to see how different their outlook is. This generation isn’t interested in hustle culture if it doesn’t lead to something meaningful—or sometimes, even if it does.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 19, 2025

A new report from Leesman claims that the sharp reductions in office space seen in last five years may now be levelling off. According to the Focus Forward study, which draws on data from 132 senior corporate real estate (CRE) leaders worldwide, the majority of organisations have already reduced their real estate footprint – but the pace of office downsizing is slowing.

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Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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Office Snapshots

JUNE 19, 2025

Cooper Carry designed the interior fit-out of the old Werthan Mill Warehouse into speculative office suites as part of a redevelopment project in Nashville’s historic Germantown neighborhood. The warehouse has a rich 100-year history. It was originally used to produce paper and burlap bags and later for manufacturing cat and dog food bags. The large open space of the building posed leasing challenges, making it difficult for potential tenants to visualize the space as functional offices.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 19, 2025

Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index Special Report, Breaking down the infinite workday , warns that the traditional boundaries of the working day have dissolved under a flood of emails, messages and meetings. Drawing on anonymised telemetry from Microsoft 365, the study argues that the contemporary knowledge worker now faces a “seemingly infinite workday” that begins before dawn and stretches deep into the evening.

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

In high-stakes meetings or chaotic team moments, the person who stays grounded often becomes the one others follow. And this outcome isn’t about status or rank—it’s biological. Human groups are wired to seek cues of stability. In uncertain situations, people scan for behavioral signals of calm, control, and composure. Those who project these signals can influence group dynamics in powerful ways, whether or not they hold formal authority.

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Wellness 360

JUNE 19, 2025

Let’s face it— work has changed. People aren’t just looking for a paycheck anymore. They want purpose, balance, and to feel genuinely cared for. That’s why employee well-being is no longer just a “nice to have.” It’s a must. When people feel mentally clear, physically healthy, financially stable, and supported in their day-to-day lives, they […] The post How to Build an Employee Well-Being Program appeared first on Wellness360 Blog.

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Before you hit send on your next email, pause for a minute. If you’re like the average employee, you draft 112 emails a week, spending about five and a half minutes writing each one, according to this survey by Slack. If your messages go ignored or if the recipient requests clarification , you might want to consider how you’re showing up in their inbox.

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Wellness 360

JUNE 19, 2025

Challenges to mental health are no longer rare; they’re everywhere. From burnout and chronic stress to anxiety and emotional fatigue, employees are silently struggling while trying to meet demands. The cost? Disengagement, lost productivity, and talent walking out the door. The solution? Forward-thinking companies are no longer treating mental health as a personal issue; […] The post Why Mental Health Programs for Employees Matter appeared first on Wellness360 Blog.

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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.

Decision Making

Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Open your news feed or turn on a screen and images of conflict are impossible to avoid. Geopolitics is not the exclusive precinct of diplomats and politicians. For many, it is an intensely personal and emotional topic; a distant calamity can strike very close to home. And people do not leave their opinions behind when they go to work. In fact, many workers expect their employers to take a stand on social and geopolitical issues.

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Office Snapshots

JUNE 19, 2025

Located in the heart of Paris’ 8th arrondissement, the new welcome area for the Caisse des Français de l’Étranger (CFE) replaces the entrance hall of an existing office building. Facing due north, on the ground floor of a wide Haussmannian boulevard, the 70 sqm space benefits from a single window onto the street and is designed to provide the necessary comfort for two separate offices and a meeting room for 10 people.

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Are you ready for reinvention? Our rapidly evolving world is demanding more from us as leaders than ever. Market challenges and opportunities used to come from competitors, economic conditions, and the quality of our products and operations. This “fast-moving” world once required responsiveness, an eye for detail, and efficiency. But the age of AI is introducing a competitive threat at a faster clip than we’ve ever faced before.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2025

Visualization might sound like a regular mental practice, but it’s much more than that. It’s the process of creating a vivid, well-detailed image of a desired outcome. One way to think of visualization is mentally rehearsing a process before it happens. Whether you’re working toward a personal milestone or aiming to overcome a challenge, visualization can help you reprogram your thoughts to see possibilities and take purposeful action.

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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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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Including women in corporate boardrooms does more than diversify leadership —recent research shows it can also lead to safer job sites, potentially saving companies from costly safety incidents. Companies with more women on their boards tend to have fewer workplace safety incidents—especially when these women hold positions of power within the board, according to an analysis of workplace safety at 266 companies between 2002 and 2011.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

I worked for a very big company at a Very Big campus. My company had about 5k people at this site, our minority mother company had about 20k people at this site. There was so much mail going through the company mail room(s) that we had our own employee post office. Very convenient and useful.

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Not long ago, a client of mine—let’s call her Maya—shared something that struck me. “I had a rare Sunday with nothing urgent on my plate. My kids were with their grandparents. My inbox was quiet. I could have done anything. Instead of feeling relaxed, I panicked. I literally didn’t know what to do with myself.” She laughed softly but tears were in her eyes.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

My office has a slide! I’m not working for a big tech company at all, we are at most 40 ans located in France. The ground floor is an open space. The floor above is smaller, so there is enough place to have a slide to go down. And it’s regularly used! We also have arrow crosswords, puzzles, a Switch and a dartboard. Some employees have been brewing beer too!

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Ever dream about work? Have nightmares? According to a survey by the mattress review site EachNight.com , nearly two-thirds of us have job-related dreams that cause us to wake up stressed out and worried. Instead of shrugging them off, you might want to take note. While no definitive answer exists on the meaning of dreams, notable scientists, including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung , believed they hold messages.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2025

As interest in sustainable practices rises and we’re seeing stronger shifts towards ethical consumerism, it seems only natural that sustainable investing steps onto the scene. This is a strong option for anyone interested in considering investing. It’s changing how businesses and investors think about building wealth, and it’s helping shape the world through positive social change.

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Hello and welcome to a special edition of Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs; this week I’m dropping a few extra newsletters from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

1. Should I give professionalism feedback to a “nepo baby” summer intern? Who is managing interns? If there is no manager or supervisor, then yes talk to him. If there is someone, discuss when them directly “How do you want professional training handled for interns?

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Hello and welcome to a special edition of Modern CEO ! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs; this week I’m dropping a few extra newsletters from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

I’ve recently started a wonderful new admin job with an electrical contractor (THANKS AAM!!). We have a few semi-normal perks that I’ve never had – snacks, drinks, beer fridge, flexible hours, some WFH, etc. The one that I love the most is that we can have our vehicles detailed each Friday if needed/wanted (we drive in a good bit of gravel lol).

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Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2025

Author’s note: For transparency, I am the co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics, a state-approved training center for psilocybin mushroom practitioners in Colorado. While my experience informs my perspective, this article is not intended to promote our organization but rather to critically examine the psychedelic movement through the lens of someone deeply involved in both research and practice.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

I worked for a company that had a happy hour once a week at every location, which isn’t so unusual, but the unique thing is that it included dinner. It was buffet style in the cafeteria, and if there was a theme to that week’s gathering (for example Juneteenth) it would be reflected in the food. There was often also some sort of entertainment. This tradition went on for years, but was discontinued after the pandemic as not as many people were in the office to attend (as I understand it; I left t

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Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

The stats are ironic. There are near-impossible odds to hit a Powerball jackpot (one in 292 million), yet a high probability that those that do will squander it (70% of lottery winners go broke). Not Tim Schulz. In 1999, he was a 21-year-old buried in student debt and working at a gas station for minimum wage before an improbable $28 million Iowa Powerball win instantly reversed his circumstances.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

My company has bee hives (for environmental reasons). The honey is available only to employees as part of an annual charity raffle that takes place on World Bee Day (no, I didn’t know either). It comes in nice jars and tastes good too.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2025

Managing your money can be challenging, but fortunately, there are a variety of budgeting tools available today that make it easier. No matter where your finances are, you can find simple tools to help you with your financial goals. Choose from free apps that sync with your bank accounts, AI-powered platforms that analyze your spending habits and more.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

I know a property management company that brings in a masseuse to give chair massages every other week. They set up in a spare room and folks sign up for sessions throughout the day. My understanding is that there’s way too many employees for everyone to have a massage every other week. But for sure once a month.

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JUNE 19, 2025

Going after goals takes more than just a desire to change—it takes discipline, resilience and a willingness to get uncomfortable. It means showing up on the hard days and working through the challenges. What gets in the way often isn’t lack of ability, but fear—fear of failure, of judgment and of not being good enough. When you read through these “reach goals” quotes, you’ll likely find a few that inspire.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

I used to work for a small company (<20 employees) where the office manager was the CEO’s mom. For your birthday, she would bake you a cake of your choice to share with everybody.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2025

When most people think of chronic pain, they envision an unrelenting, all-consuming experience. At 19 years old, psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) Nicole Sachs was confronted with this harsh reality. Diagnosed with a degenerative spinal disease, she was told her condition would significantly limit her life. Following a few years with her disease, her pain shifted from acute to chronic.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2025

The owner of an org I worked at years ago was really into the opera, so much so that the org was a patron of the nearest city’s opera house, and all staff, family and friends could get half-price opera tickets. This was a really nice (if niche) perk to have and I actually went to the opera a few times because of it, whereas I never would have considered going otherwise.

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