Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
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Spiceworks
MAY 19, 2025
If last year’s Dell Tech World Conference was all about announcing the company’s renewed focus on AI, the 2025 edition focused on showing how its enterprise customers are using AI with Del.
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Total Wellness
MAY 19, 2025
Ever found yourself elbow-deep in a bag of chips after a wild morning of back-to-back meetings? Or staring into the fridge like it holds the answers to all of lifes problems? Yep, same. Stress snacking is real. And its not because you lack willpower or just really love cookies (although, cookies are pretty amazing). Its your brain doing what it thinks is best: trying to protect you from chaos with a side of carbs.
Eat Your Career
MAY 19, 2025
When you hear the words office politics , what do you think of? Many people think of maneuvering, manipulation, and power playsbackstabbing, gossip, and favoritism. Its no surprise that most people hate the idea! I get it. But I want to challenge that perception. At its core, office politics is simply about relationshipsunderstanding and leveraging influence and informal power dynamics.
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
Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
Jake Knapp is a designer, investor, and general partner at Character Capital. He has spent the last 25 years helping companies create products that people genuinely love. He helped build Gmail, co-founded Google Meet, and has worked with hundreds of startups, including Blue Bottle Coffee, One Medical, and Slack. Whats the big idea? The foundation of success is shockingly simple, and yet most teams get bogged down for months trying to strategize a new idea.
Office Snapshots
MAY 19, 2025
Transforming workplace dynamics in the finance sector through innovation As a leading integrated securities firm,Changjiang Securitiesis committed to delivering prime investment services to its clients. To support rapid business expansion and a growing team, the company decided to relocate its workplace to a prominent financial hub in Shanghai. Inspired by our work for other leading firms, the client engaged us to create its new seven-floor office.
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Office Snapshots
MAY 19, 2025
Helix Architecture + Design collaborated closely with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on a tenant-improvement project to address the challenge of defining the future workplace for an organization with diverse departments and evolving values. The team focused on breaking down siloes among departments, establishing a strong brand identity, and providing an exceptional experience for both members and NAICs 600 employees.
Great Place to Work
MAY 19, 2025
Heres how investment banks like Jefferies are helping money managers get ahead of disruptions in the labor force and what the trend means for your company. Investors and fund managers are increasingly conscious of how labor relations impact company performance. They have been deeply studying the impacts of human capital strategies on the companies they invest in, shared Matt Spring, senior associate on the sustainability team at global investment bank Jefferies, at the For All Summit hosted by
Office Snapshots
MAY 19, 2025
An immersive space to foster collaboration and innovation We had the privilege of designing a unique space for the Invoke team a project conceived to reflect their creative identity, at once playful, assertively geeky and imbued with a certain mystery. The brief: translate their universe without becoming purely thematic. The result: an immersive environment, punctuated by a play of textures, transitions of hues and abundant vegetation that allows the space to breathe.
Success
MAY 19, 2025
Many of us have fallen into the trap of believing that working under pressure is more effective, only to end up overwhelmed and regretting the delay. Napoleon Hill, in Think and Grow Rich (1937), calls procrastination one of the most common causes of failure. He says, Old Man Procrastination stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one’s chances of success.
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.
Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
I dont know about you, but I usually cringe when I get my weekly Screen Time Report. Did I really spend that much time online? Turns out, Im pretty average. According to DataReportals 2025 Global Overview Report , adults worldwide clock in about six hours and 38 minutes on digital devices each day. While being average is comforting, I know I could benefit from more time unplugged.
Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
Weve been told that the future of work is all about freedom. Companies offer unlimited PTO, flexible hours, and asynchronous communication channels that we can access anytime. The promise is that fewer constraints will make us more empowered, more creative, and more connected. Sounds great in theory, but in practice, that kind of freedom without structure often leads to chaos.
Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
Emily Falk is a Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Communication Neuroscience Lab and the Climate Communication Division of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Her work has been covered in the New York Times , Washington Post , BBC, Forbes , and Scientific American , among other outlets.
Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
In my decades of working in cybersecurity, I have never seen a threat quite like the one we face today. Anyones image, likeness, and voice can be replicated on a photorealistic level cheaply and quickly. Malicious actors are using this novel technology to weaponize our personhood in attacks against our own organizations, livelihoods, and loved ones.
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.
Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
Between collections resuming , courts blocking student loan programs and layoffs at the Education Department , borrowers might be confused about the status of their student loans. Recently, the Education Department announced it would start involuntary collections on defaulted loans , meaning the roughly 5.3 million borrowers who are in default could have their wages garnished by the federal government.
Work Life
MAY 19, 2025
Federal judge and Trump appointee Matthew J. Kacsmaryk issued a ruling on Friday that will significantly alter the protections that transgender employees are entitled to in the workplace. The decision impacts the current guidance on workplace harassment from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , in a move that reflects the agency’s new priorities under the Trump administration and new acting chair Andrea Lucas.
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