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DECEMBER 18, 2018

I hope you enjoy our key skills roundup for 2018. We focussed really heavily this year on increasing our content around the key skills Assistants need to develop in their role this year. We covered a lot of skills including minute taking, event management, organising business travel, project management and everything in between!

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Ford (yes, that Ford) recently released their 2018 Trends Report. Ford has been doing an annual trends report since 2013. Like prior years most of the reported trends are not new or surprising. But Ford does a great job presenting and explaining the trends.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

The technology information site CB Insights recently published their list of 15 Trends Shaping Tech in 2018. This is happening and next year, for example, Volvo will release a car subscription option for their new 2018 XC40 SUV.  So their list of tech trends is well worth taking a look at.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Euromonitor International recently released their 2018 Top 10 Global Consumer Trends list,  which are listed in the chart below. We found all the trends interesting, but we especially liked two trends that we also follow closely - the shift to access over ownership and the rise of entrepreneurship.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

The strikes are already more widespread than the last round of major industrial action at VW in 2018, when more than 50,000 workers went on so-called warning strikes over pay at six sites.

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In 2023, executives listed a 31% higher rate of soft skills on their LinkedIn profiles compared to 2018. The top 10 fastest growing soft skills among C-suite members and executives are skills including “strategic thinking,” “storytelling,” and “conflict resolution/negotiation.” in 2018 to 66.0% Women made up around 38.5%

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JANUARY 9, 2018

coworking forecast projects continued growth for the U.S. coworking industry over the next 5 years.    Our forecast average annual growth rate for U.S. spaces over the forecast period (2017 to 2022) is, by coworking's standards, a relatively modest 9%.  over this time frame.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs – The Guardian: A “long read” article from 2018 covering the history of the antiwork movement and recent (at least in 2018) developments.  A 2013 article by antiwork movement intellectual leader David Graeber, which he turned into the book B t Jobs: A Theory in 2018. 

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MAY 25, 2021

billion on contract labor in 2018 (the most recent data available).  Over the period from 2010 to 2018, contract labor spend by sole proprietors increased by an annual growth rate of 9.1%. billion in 2018, or an annual growth rate of 3.61%. the spending on traditional employee salaries and wages from 2010 to 2018.

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In early February 2018, Elon forwarded us an email suggesting that OpenAI should ‘attach to Tesla as its cash cow,’ commenting that it was ‘exactly right… Tesla is the only path that could even hope to hold a candle to Google. He [Elon Musk] then suggested instead merging OpenAI into Tesla.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Tulsa Remote, which was launched in 2018, has brought in over 2,000 remote workers to the city of Tulsa by marketing itself as an inexpensive, lively haven for like-minded professionals. The country’s largest remote work program is having great results, and more is certainly to come. .

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JUNE 14, 2024

In 2018, the bank fired over a dozen employees for manipulating time stamps on receipts to claim expenses for food deliveries outside the permissible timeframe. This decision followed FINRA’s announcement to reintroduce homeworking rules that had been suspended during the pandemic.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

At least, that’s what LinkedIn’s 2023 Jobs on the Rise list suggests. LinkedIn Economic researchers analyzed millions of jobs from the beginning of 2018 to July 2022 and were able to determine the 25 fastest-growing jobs of the last five years.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

a publicly traded company , announced the sale of a majority ownership stake in Insomnia Cookies , representing a $350 million total enterprise value—double what it was when Krispy Kreme bought it in 2018. Insomnia Cookies’ growth has boomed since 2018. A business transaction worth examining On July 22, 2024, Krispy Kreme, Inc.,

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MAY 25, 2024

They received seed funding in 2018 and 2020 and then subsequently raised Series A in 2022. Noor Akbari, CEO and co-founder of Rosalyn.ai , started his company in 2018 with a vision to democratize education with a proctoring AI that works anywhere regardless of internet speeds and bandwidth.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

The program, which launched in 2018 prior to the pandemic, has proved to be successful, with 20,000 people applying to become temporary Tulsa residents last year. . Tulsa Remote is a program that provides remote workers with $10,000 in relocation costs to move to the city for one year.

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MARCH 18, 2022

This article originally appeared in the January 2018 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. No matter the number, ask, Will I let a small few, those statistical anomalies among thousands, dictate the size of my future? The answer should be no. Photo by @albertolopezphoto/Twenty20.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The most famous case of this happened in 2018, when Amazon had to ditch an AI hiring tool because it was discriminating against women. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, has been signaling these issues for years, including in her 2018 book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. “We

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JULY 9, 2019

This us up from 19% in 2018 and just 12% in 2012. As the MBO Partners State of Independence study chart below shows (click to enlarge), in 2019 22% of Independent workers who work full-time as independent workers said they provided goods or services to customers outside the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The key takeaways include: From 2018 to 2020, 22.3% The subsequent report, “ Second Chances Part II ,” examines the frequency of criminal conduct issues during federal employment background investigations. of suitability investigations for federal civil service positions flagged criminal conduct issues.

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JULY 28, 2023

Productivity monitoring In 2018, the Supreme Court undid its 2015 decision that allowed employers to monitor employees with drones at will. The 2018 decision didn’t revoke the right to monitor employees but forced employers to have a “reason” for the monitoring.

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MAY 19, 2023

in 2018 to 4.3% Daily Mail reported that rates of marijuana use have experienced a significant 54% increase across industries over the past five years. The data reveals that the rate of workers testing positive for marijuana has surged from 2.8% in 2022, marking the highest marijuana positivity rate since 1997.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

In 2018, office density in the UK came to around 9.6 Taking into account the shift to remote and flexible working, the The Future of UK Office Densities report commissioned by the British Council for Offices (BCO) suggests that the amount of office space per person should sit between 10 to 12 square meters (roughly 107 to 130 square feet).

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APRIL 7, 2023

Victor Burnett and Karl Fowlkes founded the rising multidisciplinary entertainment company, EVGLE , in 2018 with Grammy-nominated artist Blxst. Check out the full episode below or on Apple podcasts , and never miss another episode by subscribing to SUCCESS podcasts today!

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JUNE 23, 2022

Claure served as CEO of Sprint from 2014 and 2018, when Combes took over until Sprint merged with T-Mobile. . Combes took over the role in January after Marcelo Claure stepped down following a pay dispute. . This isn’t the first time that Combes has followed Claure’s footsteps, too.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2023

It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” – Horace “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius This article was published in May 2018 and has been updated. Seuss , One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish “Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans.

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MAY 7, 2022

This article originally appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Focus on the process of your strategy on a micro level, instead of the bigger picture and vision, which might seem unreachable and intimidating. Photo by @natabene /Twenty20.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

  Happy Holidays and see you in 2018. We're on vacation for the rest of the year. 

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Billings , who grew up playing travel basketball, honed her skills on the court during her time at UCLA before being drafted by the WNBA in 2018. Monique Billings is a forward for the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream.

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JUNE 14, 2024

The Allegations Jong and Salgado allege that Apple’s practice of determining starting salaries by asking for compensation history before 2018 perpetuated historical pay disparities between men and women.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

This article was published in April 2018 and has been updated. They’re usually only as happy as they make their minds up to be. Sometimes all it takes is a great teacher to show a student how to change their mindset. Photo by baranq/Shutterstock The post Happiness Is All About Perspective appeared first on SUCCESS.

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JUNE 10, 2022

For instance, Amazon had to do away with its AI recruiting tool in 2018 after it was discovered to discriminate against women.? . “There has been a lot of news about the impact of bias in the algorithms looking to identify talent,” said Greenstein. .

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MAY 11, 2022

Welkin & Meraki has been offering flexible office space throughout Europe since 2018. . The Great Room has been offering hospitable-focused coworking spaces since 2016, providing entrepreneurs with hot desks and startups with an innovative, collaborative environment.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

Before officially shoving off in 2018, Ellison and Darsy led what some might call typical lives. Ellison and Darsy purchased Polar Seal in March 2016, but they didn’t hit the waters full time until June 2018. These are five of those lessons. Your speed is the right speed. You will never be fully prepared.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Nestled in the heart of Denver, Firmspace Denver has been delivering excellent coworking solutions since its inception in March 2018. As a part of the Firmspace network established in 2016, this coworking center exemplifies the ideal blend of privacy, security, and support tailored to meet the needs of modern professionals.

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APRIL 23, 2019

  As the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), in 2018 32% of small businesses seeking credit applied to an online lender. The Federal Reserve recently released its 2019 Small Business Credit Survey.    A key finding is the use of online lending sources by small businesses is rapidly expanding. 

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MAY 15, 2018

SAP Fieldglass's External Workforce Insights 2018 study, 44% of workforce spend at large corporation is on external, non-employee talent.    External Workforce Insights 2018 is another study showing non-employee labor at most corporations is large and growing and increasingly used in core and strategic business functions.

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