All Work

APRIL 28, 2022

Despite hybrid working set ups, there is still some reluctance to return to the office. But why, and how can the physical workspace itself help address this issue? Designing spaces that encourage returning to the workplace will need an approach that is tailored to the company, its people and its clients. In today’s environment, that doesn’t just mean a workplace that looks good, it also needs to be seamlessly functional in a hybrid working world.

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Real Estate Flexibility Flexibility Planning 289

Insperity

APRIL 28, 2022

When attracting top talent in a competitive job market, the very first interaction a potential candidate has with your company starts in the job interview. And in this case, first impressions are extremely important. Selling your company to candidates. Remember: An interview is never solely about a job candidate answering your questions and then you decide whether to hire them.

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Interviewing Insurance Customer Service Teamwork 264

Wellable

APRIL 27, 2022

Much ink has been spilled over the dramatic rise in resignations during the pandemic. Often, the discussion is backward-looking, focusing on potential causes that could be pushing workers to leave their roles in search of something better.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 27, 2022

Being in a leadership role is a big adjustment from a standard role in any company. It comes with a lot of personal development and figuring out how to earn respect from your coworkers. Respect is not something that just comes when you get a promotion, it’s something you have. Click to continue reading.

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Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

Leadership

Jen Lawrence

APRIL 25, 2022

We often feel the emotional response to frustrations before we can identify the source of them. Specifically, when it comes to getting work done, we can usually only sum it up as, “It just doesn’t work!” In fact, that’s one of the top complaints I hear from my clients, “Something just isn’t working.” How do you figure out what “something” is?

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Technology 130

Success

APRIL 24, 2022

Technology continues to change the way people view and interact with the world. One of those ways is how people invest their wealth. From cryptocurrencies to non-fungible tokens, these shiny alternative investments can be tempting to the risk-willing investor. But is it the right strategy for you? Let’s dig in. Cryptocurrencies. At its core, money is a token or symbol built on trust, one that facilitates an exchange of one’s products or services for that token or symbol.

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Government Computer Manufacturing Banking 112

Workplace Insight

APRIL 28, 2022

Six London workplaces have been recognised at the annual British Council for Offices’ (BCO) Regional Awards. The London Awards Lunch returned in-person to the London Hilton on Park Lane, recognising the highest quality developments in London and setting the standard for excellence in the office sector across the UK. The winning workplaces include: 80 Charlotte Street (Commercial Workplace); Plumtree Court, 25 Shoe Lane (Corporate Workplace); Dojo, The Brunel Building, 2 Canalside Walk (Fi

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Vantage Circle

APRIL 27, 2022

Mother’s day is observed and celebrated every first Sunday of May, and this year it is on 8 May 2022. And you’ve come here to witness the best mother’s day quotes to celebrate working mother’s in your workplace. It is time to admire and recognize the working mothers and their sacrifices to reach this far in their respective careers.

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Success

APRIL 25, 2022

Jairek Robbins’ last name is famous; his first name, not so much. Jairek, he says, is the result of creative parents, dad Tony Robbins and mom Liz Acosta. They originally planned to name him Josh, but when he entered the world, he didn’t look like a Josh. He remained unnamed for three days before his parents settled on Jairek. One day when he was in elementary school, he came home upset.

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Coaching Learning Networking Creativity 106

Go Burrows

APRIL 24, 2022

Kathleen Gauden is owner of The Virtual Assistant & Company and has been working from home since long before it was hip and trendy. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Kathleen shares tips for working remotely so tune in to hear her story and advice. LEADERSHIP QUOTES. For those that say it cannot be done, get out of the way of the person doing it!

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Real Estate Coaching Mentoring Sales 98

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

Workplace Insight

APRIL 26, 2022

A new poll claims that one in three (37 percent) employees consider their current job to be at risk from automation and digital transformation. HR software provider CIPHR has compiled a list of the occupations that are the most and least likely to be replaced by technology or machines, based on the results of a survey of more than 1,000 UK workers: www.ciphr.com/jobs-at-risk-from-automation.

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Bookkeeping Catering Payroll Technology 98

TinyPulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Measuring employee engagement at your organization can be complicated and often the results don’t give you enough data or detail to take action and create impactful change.

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Quantum Workplace

APRIL 28, 2022

Using outdated approaches to performance management doesn’t help employees reach their full potential. In fact, flawed performance management hurts employee engagement levels and hinders business success. Employees crave fairness, transparency, and ongoing coaching and feedback. When leaders prioritize these things, employees feel connected to the rest of the organization and can do their best work.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 26, 2022

This post, a coworker who I referred to a job is demanding I share my referral bonus with him , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: A couple of months ago, I bumped into a former coworker, Fergus, from my previous company. We chatted for a few minutes and he mentioned he’d recently started a job search because he felt he was underpaid in his current role.

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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.

Technology

Workplace Insight

APRIL 28, 2022

The start of 2022 saw a jump in new tenants looking to rent UK commercial property, with the uplift particularly prevalent in prime office space. Investor enquiries across all UK commercial property also continued to rise, according to the RICS Commercial Property Market Survey, Q1 2022. Respondents to the survey saw a notable increase in UK office demand in Q1 2022 with the net balance improving to +30 percent from a flat picture at the end of 2021.

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Real Estate Retail Government Security 98

APSMB

APRIL 29, 2022

Brilliance is often seen as something you’re born with—a kind of raw intellectual talent that propels certain people to succeed at a level the average person can only dream of. Although this trait is often prized in academic fields, an organizational emphasis on proving one’s intellectual superiority can contribute to a “masculinity-contest culture” (MCC) that may discourage women from jumping into the fray, according to research by Andrea C.

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Ruby

APRIL 28, 2022

Businesses pour so much energy into creating a great product or service and then marketing it to find customers and clients. But what happens when the product or service is delivered with a poor experience? Simply put, all that energy doesn’t pay off—especially not with consumers’ expectations these days. What a business offers is as important as how it’s delivered.

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Customer Service Purchasing Sales Communication 52

Shift Work Place

APRIL 27, 2022

The post Reversing Incivility With Intent To Be And Do Good appeared first on ShiftWorkPlace.

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Leadership 52

Workplace Insight

APRIL 24, 2022

In recent years we have grown very fond of borrowing foreign words to describe some of the more difficult to express ideas about wellbeing and the new era of agile, experiential and engaging work. We’ve adopted Eudaimonia from the Ancient Greek of Aristotle to describe the nuances of wellbeing, happiness and purpose. We went nuts briefly for the Scandinavian idea of hygge to describe a copy and laid-back approach to life that we felt we’d been lacking.

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Productivityist

APRIL 27, 2022

When I was given the opportunity to speak with Daniel Coyle for A Productive Conversation, I jumped at the opportunity. I’ve been a fan of his work for some time, starting with his book The Talent Code. In the pages of another of his books – The Culture Code – I discovered that he’d paid a visit to observe the culture of the San Antonio Spurs, a team I’ve been a fan of since the David Robinson era began.

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Mind Matters from Menninger

APRIL 26, 2022

A look at the strengths of those with autism and the different ways they think.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 25, 2022

This post, I’m not productive every single minute of every day , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Recently, our vice president decided she wanted to start time tracking for our department. She has positioned this as wanting to gain a better understanding of which of our internal clients are taking up the most of our time, and what type of work we are doing, which I can definitely see the value of.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 28, 2022

The pandemic has brought with it many different trials and tribulations over the course of the past few years. An area that has impacted teams across the country, and the world, has been working from home and other forms of remote work. Once a necessity imposed by the UK government to stop the spread in the early stages of the pandemic, it has now become a part of working life for many people in many different sectors.

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Government Flexibility Flexibility Banking 98

The Receptionist

APRIL 25, 2022

Many experts believe that we’re finally entering into the post-peak phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this phase, there’s a possibility of recurrent events, however, we’re slowly but surely getting a handle on the widespread human infection we saw at the height of the pandemic. While the disease hasn’t simmered down to seasonal levels yet, we do see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 25, 2022

A poll of 2,000 people published in the new edition of the State of Hybrid Work study from Owl Labs claims that flexibility is now key to retaining top talent in 2022 and beyond. 65 percent of British employees would rather be paid less in exchange for a four day week and over a third (37 percent) would choose to decline a job if flexible hours are not offered.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 27, 2022

Employees with full autonomy to choose where they work are happier in their job, yet only one in five are currently able to do so. And though 60 percent of all employees prefer hybrid working, only 39 percent are able to flexibly split their time between the home and office. This is according to Jabra’s 2022 edition of the Hybrid Ways of Working Global Report.

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Technology Reporting Flexibility Flexibility 97

Workplace Insight

APRIL 26, 2022

The number of employers who believe that an increase in homeworking and flexible working has increased their organisation’s productivity or efficiency has jumped significantly over the last year, according to new research from the CIPD. When asked in December 2020, a third (33 percent) of employers said homeworking had increased their organisation’s productivity or efficiency.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 27, 2022

Over two-thirds of UK office workers would consider returning to the office full-time if employers covered commute costs, an Emburse/YouGov poll suggests. The survey of 1,000 British employees, of which 724 worked in an office, were asked questions around their new working preferences in order to understand what the ‘future of work’ looks like.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 27, 2022

Even before the pandemic, statistics were making the case for workplaces to be made up of more intelligent buildings. This includes the fact that offices generally operate at around 55-60 percent utilisation, and as we return to the office are currently at 45 percent utilisation. From presenteeism to absenteeism and many other factors in between, workplaces have seldom been utilised by entire workforces at the same time.

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Real Estate Cleaning Government Technology 52

Workplace Insight

APRIL 26, 2022

With organisations adopting a hybrid working model and moving towards flexible working also comes a need for flexible office solutions. International office and workplace solutions provider Kinnarps , approached Codelocks as it was looking to furnish a UK county council with an access control solution suitable for its hybrid working needs. Codelocks designs and distributes a wide portfolio of innovative, standalone keyless door locks and access products for a range of growing markets.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 25, 2022

A poll from Perkbox claims that moves towards hybrid and flexible working are changing the workplace experience for employees across the UK, with 57 percent feeling freer to be ‘themselves’ in this environment. This is particularly strong for women – 61 percent say they feel freer to be themselves when remote and hybrid working compared to 51 percent of men.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 25, 2022

This post, Administrative Professionals Day is weird , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Administrative Professionals Day is Wednesday, and it’s time for it to go. If it were used to draw attention to the need for administrative support staff to be paid fairly, that would be great. But too often it’s a day where admins receive flowers and lunch, then return to jobs where their contributions are undervalued and their paychecks reflect that.

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Interviewing 48

Ask a Manager

APRIL 27, 2022

This post, my family member says it’s bad to withdraw from a hiring process even if I know I don’t want the job , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I had a really frustrating interview situation recently. I applied for a job based on the posted job description, which was for a generalist, with a list of maybe 10 areas of responsibility.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 27, 2022

This post, I saw my manager’s rude texts about my resignation, a dramatic haircut at lunch, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I saw my manager’s rude texts about my resignation. I just put in my two weeks this past Friday at a company and during my Zoom meeting with my supervisor, I noticed her texting, which is not uncommon (I assume she’s very busy).

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