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MillerKnoll Expert Explains Why Offices Need To Design For Belonging Above Productivity

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By combining living and working spaces, people would be more connected, encouraging stronger communities and reducing the physical and emotional separation that technology often promotes. Anderson also explored how technology, despite its benefits, is contributing to a more atomized, individualistic experience of work.

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5 Tips for Working Without Direct Supervision

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Based on the questions I’m receiving and complaints I’m hearing, quite a few are struggling as they attempt to work without direct supervision. How can you still provide value without supervision? What if your primary video conference technology isn’t working? Many professionals are working from hom e for the first time.

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8 Reasons Why Employee Productivity May Suffer

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Poor supervision. Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance , says poor supervision is a top interference to productivity. Inadequate technologies. Steven Lowell, community manager with Voice123 , says the failure to upgrade company technology can hinder productivity.

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Millennials in Charge: How They’re Changing the Workplace

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Millennials are the first generation to have access to digital technology their whole lives. Technology has helped accelerate transparency because it cuts through levels of bureaucracy. If people don’t like change, have stagnated or failed to embrace technology , then they’ll likely be pushed out. Off the clock?

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Creating a not-so-formal leadership development program

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One-on-one mentoring , real-world practice of skills, on-the-job training and special assignments with supervision generally prove much more effective for developing a person’s more conceptual, people-oriented skills. However, classroom or online training is only one method for developing leaders. Fewer events, more learning.

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Millennials in Charge: How They’re Changing the Workplace

Insperity

Millennials are the first generation to have access to digital technology their whole lives. Technology has helped accelerate transparency because it cuts through levels of bureaucracy. If people don’t like change, have stagnated or failed to embrace technology , then they’ll likely be pushed out. Off the clock? On the clock?

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How Will We View Today’s Transformation Of The Workplace In Twenty Years?

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Over the hundred years that followed, variances occurred in how offices were designed but most still resembled rows of open desks within view of large private offices, driven by the needs of bosses to supervise work, commiserate with each other, and impress clients. Image courtesy of MillerKnoll.