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Powering productivity: Operations insights for 2025

McKensey

Despite ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, the future of operations in 2025 is promising. Companies that lean into tech, cross-functional collaboration, and curiosity can power up productivity.

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How to Streamline Facility Maintenance and Save Time

fm:systems

Learn the best strategies to streamline facility maintenance and save time. Improve efficiency with automation, scheduling, and smart planning.

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Water resilience: Closing the funding gap for utilities

McKensey

State and local leaders are well positioned to help water and wastewater utilities solve challenges in financial health, infrastructure resilience, economic development, and lives and livelihoods.

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How Does a Virtual Mailbox Work? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Launch Work Places

Managing physical mail can be a hassleespecially if you run a remote business, travel frequently, or want to keep your home address private. Sorting through stacks of paper, forwarding important documents, and ensuring nothing gets lost in the shuffle takes time and effort. A virtual mailbox solves these problems by giving you a professional mailing address where your mail is received, scanned, and managed digitally.

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The McKinsey Crossword: “Surf’s Up!” | No. 223

McKensey

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if youre looking for a quick win.

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Optimizing Hybrid Workspaces with AI & Smart Planning: Ep 22

fm:systems

Discover hybrid workplace strategies with FM:Systems experts. Learn how AI, data, and space planning shape the future of work. Watch now!

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How Judy Marks leads Otis Worldwide Corporation through uncertainty and technological evolution

McKensey

With a legacy spanning nearly two centuries, Otis Worldwide continues to evolve. CEO Judy Marks discusses how shes preparing the company for the next wave of technological and geopolitical changes.

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The hidden creativity killer lurking in your organization

Work Life

Organizations talk about wanting innovation, but most aren’t willing to create the right conditions for it. We celebrate disruptors, bold thinkers, and game-changing ideasbut the way most organizations actually run makes creativity nearly impossible. Leaders ask, How do we encourage creativity? But the real question is: “How do we keep it alive in a world that values efficiency over exploration?

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How United’s New Free Wi-Fi Service Will Boost Your In-Flight Productivity

Success

Standout innovations over the years have forever changed the way we fly. The introduction of jet engine technology in the 1950s paved the way for subsonic speeds, enabling faster travel across vast distances. This breakthrough made it possible to reach nearly every corner of the globe from the U.S. in under a day. Next came in-flight entertainment systems, onboard food and beverages, and of course, self-check-in, cutting airport wait times down to as little as an hour.

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This is COVID-19’s most lasting legacy on the way we work

Work Life

As the economist Milton Friedman once said, Only a crisisactual or perceivedproduces real change. Humanity has of course been faced with countless crises, leading to profound and often unexpected change. These crises define and differentiate generations and leave lasting impacts for years to come. In 2020, a crisis that would change everything hit the world seemingly overnight.

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Test Every Platform Until You Find Your Customer Base

Success

When Liviu Tanase moved to the United States from Romania in 2014, he had already founded four companies in his home country. In 2017, he started his fifth companyZeroBounce, an email validation companyin Santa Barbara, California. Since then, ZeroBounce has been on the Inc. 5000 list four times and has grown about 3035% year-over-year. There were some years that we grew much more in the beginning because, you know, when youre small, its easier to grow faster, says Tanase.

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How to deal with the office favorite

Work Life

It’s popular right now to talk about meritocracy and how we want the most talented people to be able to rise to the top. Yet that’s not the reality for many. Lots of people experience a workplace reality where they see a few charmed people become the darlings of leadership. These darlings get recognized for their contributions and fast-tracked for honor, opportunity, and promotions.

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Should You Take Funding to Grow Your Business? Here’s Why This Entrepreneur Turned Down a $7 Million Offer

Success

As an entrepreneur, you want to grow your business. You understand that when your marketing plan consistently reaches consumers, youre building a team that shares your company’s vision. By leveraging systems and automation, your business can accomplish its goals. You’re interested in accelerating your growth initiatives, and many have considered the idea of funding.

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8 Best Team Lunch Ideas for 2025 to Boost Engagement

Wellness 360

Team lunch ideas are more than just an opportunity to eat togethertheyre a chance to break away from the daily grind, spark creativity, and build stronger relationships within your team. When employees come together over a shared meal, the atmosphere shifts from business mode to bonding mode, paving the way for better collaboration, communication, and […] The post 8 Best Team Lunch Ideas for 2025 to Boost Engagement appeared first on Wellness360 Blog.

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Container Exchange (COEX) Offices – Brisbane

Office Snapshots

Container Exchange (COEX) engaged PMG to create a new 1232 sqm full-floor office that united their team. This project stands as a prime example of sustainable office design, conceived with an emphasis on flexibility, accessibility, and environmental responsibility. From the outset, the brief was clear. The space needed to promote accessibility, wellbeing and family-friendly interactions while remaining practical and future-proof.

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How to Handle the 5 Most Common Last-Minute Meeting Changes

Ask Cody

Meetings rarely go exactly as planned. A key stakeholder cancels at the last minute, a room suddenly becomes unavailable, or an unexpected visitor arrives just before the discussion begins. When these disruptions happen, stress levels rise, productivity takes a hit, and time is wasted scrambling for quick fixes. In fact, studies show that employees spend an average of 392 hours per year in meetings ( Flowtrace ).

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AstraZeneca Offices – Istanbul

Office Snapshots

Located in Istanbuls prestigious Levent business district, our AstraZeneca office project embodies a modern design approach that aligns with the principles of Activity-Based Working (ABW). Spanning three floors, we prioritized user experience, blending corporate identity with dynamic spatial solutions. Each floor was carefully curated to foster human interaction, connectivity, and productivity while integrating sustainability at its core.

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More employees than ever say that they are engaged with what they do

Workplace Insight

Nearly one in five employees worldwide reported being fully engaged on the job, a record high going back a decade according to polling in ADP Researchs People at Work 2025 report. It was the third straight year that the share of engaged workers grew, according to the survey. The study claims there is a strong relationship between work location and employee engagement.

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5 Trends Shaping Employee Rewards Programs in 2025

FirLyfe

Hows your employee rewards program? Maybe youve got it dialed in, engagement is up, healthcare costs are down. Or maybe your employee rewards program has been coasting on old-school industry trends. If its been a while since you gave your employee rewards program some attention, heres some food for thought: Companies that invest in comprehensive wellness programs report a: 28% reduction in sick leave 26% decrease in healthcare costs In other words: Health screenings and gym-memberships may not b

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Global real estate markets grow (very cautiously) optimistic

Workplace Insight

The global real estate sector thinks it is close to ending a three-year journey to recovery, with a widely held view that 2025 may breakthrough to a reset point or commence a new cycle. Even so, real estate leaders globally are braced for another challenging year of uncertainty, with lingering inflation, largely driven by factors including geopolitical instability, and persistently higher interest rates in some regions, potentially delaying a hoped-for recovery in capital markets and occupancy m

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Doctors Didn’t Warn ‘Deviant Sexual Behaviour’ was Side Effect of Restless Legs Syndrome Drug

Mad in America

Patients who were prescribed drugs for restless legs syndrome (RLS) have said doctors did not warn them about significant side effects of the medication including risky sexual behaviours and compulsive gambling. One woman recalled leaving her house in the early hours of the morning in search of sex , while another said she racked up debts of 80,000 after developing a gambling addiction.

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1700 7th Coworking Offices & Amenities – Seattle

Office Snapshots

The 35,000 square-foot office repositioning project at 1700 7th showcases the future of office by introducing hospitality-influenced amenities that promote health, wellness, and community to create meaningful experiences for tenants. Graciousness, ease of navigation, and connection to nature are the guiding ideals of the renovation, says Brian Di Maggio, Studio Director at Gensler Seattle.

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How to respond to public bullying at work

Work Life

President Trumps address to a joint session of Congress last week is still making headlines, including celebrating cracking down on immigration; declaring male and female are the only two genders recognized by the U.S. government; loudly ending diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; implementing aggressive tariffs; and more. And one of the most shocking things to witness again in his address was a public display of bullying: President Trump calling Sen.

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From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession

Mad in America

T he social work profession was historically rooted in a mission of improving the lives of the vulnerable, the oppressed, and those living in poverty. Yet, the modern use of the social work license and degree as a quick path to private practice serving middle to upper-middle-class communities is oddly not questioned. This use of a social work masters degree for private practice, primarily serving privileged communities, contradicts the professions code of ethics.