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Flexibility In Design: Turning A Workplace Into An Outdoor Oasis

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In the workplace, the pandemic changed everything: workers traded in cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. Workers traded in their cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. This article was written by Brian Parker and was originally published on Work Design Magazine.

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6 Reasons Men Are Not Working as Much as They Used To

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Alternate ways of making a living The pandemic ushered in a new era of work , far from the cubicle and tediously long workdays. Mental health and addiction issues on the rise The Association of American Medical Colleges published an article called “ Men and mental health: What are we missing?

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What’s Going On With Office Vacancies?

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The costs are high, the expertise needed is great, and properties built to house workers in their cubicles often lack important characteristics that are important or required for rental housing, like adequate daylight penetration deep into each floor plate. Educational and medical users such as the Savannah College of Art and Design and St.

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The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Menstrual Health at Work

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Women are already historically neglected when it comes to medical care … We know that the history of biomedical research has a long history of misogyny… [The study] really kind of exploits that systemic frustration,” explains immunologist and microbiologist Andrea Love, Ph.D., Should we be reconsidering tampon use based on this study?

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Offices Of The Future Will Be Uniquely Tailored To Each Company

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Others will take on new life as nonprofit centers, medical clinics, or even vertical farms. So are heavily closed-off cubicle farms. This has created a dilemma for landlords — either slash rents or find new tenants. Giordano predicts the older buildings will increasingly be repurposed. Some may be partially converted to apartments.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

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Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people. Seeing Red Does it matter what colour of font you use in your e-mail? Watson Associates Inc.,

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