Work Life
JUNE 24, 2025
In the 2018 comedy Tag , a group of childhood friends maintains an offbeat line of connection over 30 years of friendship: the same game of tag, played through weddings, boardrooms, and hospital visits. It’s absurd and touching all at once. But the line that echoes throughout the film is where the real wisdom lies: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Yarooms
JUNE 24, 2025
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Workplace Insight
JUNE 24, 2025
ROOM , the leading modular architecture company behind the award-winning Phone Booth and pioneer in flexible workplace design, has introduced The Room Collection: a new series of scalable and adaptable rooms, designed to provide privacy in open floorplans and meet the dynamic needs of today’s businesses and office workers. A major pain point for employees is working in an office that hasn’t yet been optimized for the hybrid workplace.
Office Snapshots
JUNE 23, 2025
The new BASF Services Europe headquarters in Berlin-Friedrichshain is designed to be more than just an office: it’s a collaborative ecosystem at the intersection of science, technology, and next-generation workspace design. Together with Kinzo, BASF has created a flagship project that redefines the corporate office as a place of exchange, innovation, and identity.
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
Work Life
JUNE 25, 2025
Innovation doesn’t happen in silos: it happens in systems. And yet many companies still rely on lone heroes to ignite transformation. They recruit visionary thinkers, celebrate bold ideas, and preach agility, but beneath the surface, their structures reward predictability and punish deviation. As a result, the very people most capable of driving innovation—fast-moving, future-oriented changemakers known as catalysts—are often left isolated, misunderstood, and burned out.
fm:systems
JUNE 26, 2025
Discover how predictive maintenance enhances office efficiency by preventing equipment failures, reducing downtime, and optimizing repair schedules. Learn how this proactive approach boosts productivity, lowers costs, and creates a more reliable work environment.
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Office Snapshots
JUNE 24, 2025
Gardner Skelton’s new headquarters is a bold and expressive adaptive reuse project that redefines what a law office can be. Located in Charlotte’s eclectic NoDa arts district, the 20,000-square-foot workplace transforms a 1960s industrial building—formerly a chocolate factory, nightclub, and church—into a vibrant, wellness-centered hub that celebrates creativity, connection, and authenticity.
C-Suite Assistants
JUNE 26, 2025
You’ve just hired a new executive assistant (EA) and you expect them to be perfect from Day One. You’ve interviewed them thoroughly and checked their references. They may even have taken some assessments and are experts with every productivity tool used in your office. They know your industry and your customer segment. You are hoping they can even read your mind.
AdminDroid
JUNE 25, 2025
Traditionally, sending personalized emails to multiple recipients meant setting up a mail merge using Word and Excel. While effective, it required switching between apps, preparing data sources, and dealing with formatting issues, a process that was often time-consuming and prone to errors. This posed a challenge for IT admins sending security alerts, HR teams sharing policy updates, or managers coordinating events all needing a quick and reliable way to send individualized emails at scale.
Workplace Insight
JUNE 22, 2025
A new study of a large Turkish call centre provides fresh evidence that working from home can improve productivity and workforce diversity — though in-person onboarding remains crucial to long-term success. The research, conducted by economists from King’s College London, Stanford, the Paris School of Economics and the EBRD, examines Tempo BPO, a Turkish business process outsourcing company that moved fully remote in 2020.
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.
Office Snapshots
JUNE 24, 2025
After more than 15 years at the Arizona Center, a two-tower office and retail complex in downtown Phoenix, SmithGroup was ready to redefine its Phoenix workplace. The firm wanted to create an environment that would be expressive of the Phoenix team’s evolution and success – one that would further deepen the bond between our people and the meaning behind our work.
Attendance Bot
JUNE 27, 2025
Some people need absolute silence to work effectively. Others can tune into a heavy metal playlist and still meet their deadlines. Whether you’re team “library quiet” or “background buzz,” one thing’s clear: workplace noise impact is real, and it plays a bigger role in how we focus, think, and get things done than most of us realize. From chatty coworkers to humming AC units, our brains are constantly processing background sounds, even when we think we’re tuning them out.
Total Wellness
JUNE 23, 2025
🎶 “Workin’ 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’…” Oh, how times have changed. If Dolly Parton wrote that song today, it might be called “Logging on at 7, still Slacking at 11.” The once-structured 9-to-5 has quietly morphed into something fuzzier — a workday with no real start, no clear finish, and no off switch. Microsoft calls it the “infinite workday.
Workplace Insight
JUNE 25, 2025
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) will come into force on 28 June 2025. It introduces standardised accessibility requirements for a range of products and services across European Union member states. Its advocates suggest that it will transform workplace inclusion across the EU. The act applies to digital and physical services including websites, mobile apps, e-commerce platforms, banking services, ticketing machines and ATMs.
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.
Office Snapshots
JUNE 26, 2025
The former multi-tenant office on Lange Kleiweg in Rijswijk has undergone an impressive transformation in just ten months. From an outdated office building to a dynamic and future-proof working environment that brings companies and organisations together. The Den is more than a workplace; it is an environment in which connection, flexibility and experience are central.
Office Skills
JUNE 25, 2025
For office professionals and customer-facing teams, placing a caller on hold is often necessary, but how it’s done can make or break the customer experience. While “please hold” is a […] The post Beyond “Please Hold”: Mastering Effective Hold Techniques and Customer Communication appeared first on Office Skills Training.
Insperity
JUNE 24, 2025
In the world of human resources (HR), certain terms are thrown around casually and used interchangeably. Prominent examples of such terms include HR operations and HR administration. These two terms are closely related and often overlap, but don’t mean precisely the same thing. Yet, you know they’re both vital to your company running smoothly and meeting its business goals – to say nothing of staying out of legal trouble and achieving your organization’s people strategy.
Workplace Insight
JUNE 25, 2025
A new report from audio brand Jabra, in collaboration with The Happiness Research Institute, claims that daily users of artificial intelligence tools are more likely to report higher levels of job satisfaction and optimism about their working lives. The study, Work and Wellbeing in the Age of AI [registration] is based on a survey of over 3,700 knowledge workers across 11 countries, including 360 in the UK.
Fellow
JUNE 26, 2025
New in Fellow: Ask Fellow is your on-demand AI Chief of Staff, built to surface insights and generate deliverables from meetings, even the ones you skip. At most companies, the Chief of Staff is a force multiplier. They’re the right hand to the CEO or department lead, surfacing insights, keeping priorities on track, and making sure nothing critical falls through the cracks.
Office Snapshots
JUNE 23, 2025
Rooted in the spirit of the West Coast and connected to Gensler’s global network, the Vancouver office reimagines the modern workplace as a space for connection, collaboration, and wellbeing, blending local identity with a global vision — all while fostering a true sense of place. At its heart is the Welcome Mural by artists Debra Sparrow and Cole Sparrow-Crawford.
Insperity
JUNE 26, 2025
Have you heard of people strategy? It’s your company’s plan for how you’ll leverage your people to grow your business and achieve business goals. One of the most critical parts of your people strategy is creating a positive culture that drives the engagement and productivity that’s essential for business success. We call this a people-first culture.
Work Life
JUNE 24, 2025
Productivity myths can stand in the way of personal and professional growth, often without our awareness. Moreover, what equals productivity for one person or company may not be the same for others. This article challenges common misconceptions about productivity that experts have found to be misleading or harmful in the workplace. Here, experts offer practical alternatives to these myths that actually make a difference in your efficiency.
Success
JUNE 21, 2025
Co-founder and executive chairman of Netflix Reed Hastings gets an annual 360-review via written assessment to which any employee can contribute. He wrote about his 2019 review in his book No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention , observing, “I find the best comments for my growth are unfortunately the most painful.” In a memo to employees, he thanked them for pointing out how he skipped or rushed over topics he felt weren’t worth the time.
Robertson Cooper
JUNE 26, 2025
Learn what burnout is and how to approach breaking burnout, by tackling workplace stress by managing energy and workload more effectively
fm:systems
JUNE 24, 2025
Learn how Johnson Controls OpenBlue helps organizations calculate the financial and operational impacts of Return to Office mandates.
Work Life
JUNE 24, 2025
The most frequently used word to describe the last few months is “uncertainty.” Our heads have been spinning as we get word almost daily of major policy shifts, market turmoil, new advances in AI, and on and on. Many leaders are feeling a little lost in the wilderness as they navigate the rough terrain. As you ruminate on these heady problems and how to move forward, how you respond to uncertainty is as important as what you do.
Success
JUNE 26, 2025
Google is revamping its compensation system to better reward high-impact employees who deliver strong results, with fewer perks for those with lower performance ratings. This change follows similar moves by other major tech companies like Meta and Microsoft—both of which laid off thousands earlier this year and claimed that these employees were low performers.
Zevo Health
JUNE 23, 2025
Strong leadership has a direct impact on how Trust and Safety teams handle daily pressures. Team wellbeing depends on the actions, communication, and support that leaders provide each day. Trust and Safety work demands more than standard management – leaders must create psychological safety, offer genuine support, and tackle the specific challenges that Content Moderators face.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 27, 2025
“I’m the third person brought in to replace him, and it’s been six months with no signs that he intends to step aside. Given his ongoing access to accounts and financial authority, I would thinj that someone really should review the books. In small companies, reluctance to relinquish control can sometimes be an early red flag for financial misconduct or embezzlement.
Work Life
JUNE 25, 2025
A CEO I recently worked with had become obsessed with speed and staying ahead of disruption. He launched an internal rapid response “tiger team”—a small group of leaders and managers from a cross-section of departments—to accelerate innovation. Within a quarter, they launched pilots, restructured teams, and redesigned workflows with promising early results.
Quantum Workplace
JUNE 24, 2025
What Is Upward Feedback? Upward feedback gives employees a voice in the leadership experience. It allows team members to share candid insights about their manager’s communication style, leadership behaviors, and impact on performance—contributing to a culture of transparency and continuous improvement. This type of feedback is most commonly collected through performance reviews and 360-degree feedback cycles.
Yarooms
JUNE 25, 2025
After years of remote and hybrid routines, many organizations are asking employees to come back to the office - some gently, others more forcefully. Yet one thing is clear: anxiety around return-to-office (RTO) mandates is widespread, complex, and often underestimated.
Success
JUNE 23, 2025
We all want to do better at work—and in life, really. But traditional professional development courses can be soul-sucking and aren’t the only way to improve. Sometimes we have to take matters into our own hands when it comes to upping our efficiency, streamlining our workflow or integrating tech tools. We reached out to other businesspeople to see what products and tools have helped them stay at the top of their work game.
Work Life
JUNE 23, 2025
Marcus leads a team of eight direct reports, and Jennifer is his star employee. While the other seven team members struggle to complete tasks on time or in the way Marcus asks for them, Jennifer seems to ace any task she’s given. She asks questions when she’s unclear and owns up to her mistakes. Any time the other employees mess up, Marcus wishes he could clone Jennifer seven times and save himself the hassle.
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