Allwork

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virtual and augmented reality technologies are emerging to bridge the gap between physical isolation and collaborative teamwork, creating immersive environments that mimic real-world office interactions. Synthesized environments enhance presence and interaction quality but pose challenges such as cognitive dissonance, miscommunication, and the need to balance virtual exposure with real-world interactions.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Anna Rodney never set out to start a doula agency. It became a necessity when her one-woman birthworker operation attracted more inquiries than she could accommodate. Today, Chicago Family Doulas is one of the largest doula agencies in the country and has an education branch called Birth & Baby University , which Rodney founded to meet the need for self-paced, remote birth classes during the pandemic.

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Allwork

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

New data reveals the increasing influence of hybrid work environments on how business leaders approach traditional workplaces. Nearly half (49%) of the corporate real estate executives surveyed in CBRE’s 2024 Asia Pacific Office Occupier Survey indicated they plan to expand their use of flexible office spaces over the next three years. The survey reveals flexible space currently makes up slightly over 10% of most corporate real estate portfolios.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Most professionals have heard of transferrable skills and vaguely know what they are, but few know how to truly build and leverage them for career advancement. Let’s change that! What Are Transferrable Skills? Transferrable skills are competencies that can be applied across various jobs, industries, and roles. Unlike technical skills, which may be specific to a certain job or field, transferrable skills are broadly applicable.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Allwork

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Many remote workers in the U.K. experienced a notably slower pay growth compared to their in-person colleagues during the first two years following the COVID-19 pandemic. Bloomberg reports that a recent study shows hybrid work arrangements, though beneficial in terms of promoting greater work-life balance, could come at a financial cost. In-person employees saw greater increases in their salaries to compensate for the lack of work-from-home benefits, the study showed.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What does it mean to be a changemaker? It means stepping up to bat for what you believe in. It’s the willingness to fill leadership roles , promising to advocate for and shedding light on the unrepresented and undervalued. These people are innovators, groundbreakers and resistors. They’re not afraid of change and demonstrate their dedication through years of hard work.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When Jonathan Fields was working as a lawyer in one of the biggest law firms in the country, enduring long hours and massive amounts of stress, he became an unexpected witness in one of the most important trials of his life. After being hospitalized when his immune system shut down due to a massive infection, he traded law for his health. As a result, he embarked on a wellness journey that led him to owning a fitness studio, a yoga studio and two movements that disrupt our concept of a “go

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Our friends at comms specialist Magenta Associates have announced that the business is now owned by its employees. The company has set up an Employee Ownership Trust which owns the majority of the business. The trust will be led by five trustees to ensure the management team is running the business in the best interests of the employees. Magenta was set up in 2011 by Cathy Hayward, the former editor of FM World (now Facilitate) and FMJ magazine who spotted a gap in the market for a PR agency spe

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The new issue of IN Magazine is available for you to read here. In this issue: it’s events season and we look forward to Orgatec and back on Material Matters; we profile the most important workplace thinker of the past fifty years whose ideas are as relevant as ever; we visit a new office for one of the many tech firms making Munich their home; ask why people often seem to prefer ‘difficult’ analogue tech to digital; explore a new generation of life sciences workplaces; Helen

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