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Navigating Uncertainty: Strategies For Success In Commercial Real Estate Amid Global Turmoil

Allwork

View of proposed Northwestern Mutual North Office Building. The reuse of the building’s structure greatly minimizes the project’s overall carbon footprint and reduces construction time which in turn minimizes employee displacement. Image courtesy of Lifang. 600 Fifth holistically reimagines the entire city block.

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Could the 4-Day Workweek Be the Answer to Better Work-Life Balance?

Success

It would take many more proposals and the Great Depression before Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which officially restricted the workweek to 44 hours in 1938, amended two years later to 40. This prompted the creation of labor unions in the late 1800s that called for more reasonable workdays. That model is still the norm.

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Five Reasons It's a Good Idea to Stay on a Sinking Ship

On The Job

You are asked to re-use ovenight envelopes -- and not because the boss cares about the company's carbon footprint. She volunteered to take on duties left by departing employees, and soon had access to key managers and top decision makers. You catch the boss working on his resume.

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UKGBC publishes new guidance on embodied carbon emissions reporting for more rigorous carbon reduction strategy

Workplace Insight

The GHG Protocol sets out a standard framework and tools for measuring emissions and is the most common way for organisations to fully assess the overall carbon footprint of activity.

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EU building data project to drive full decarbonisation in three European countries

Workplace Insight

Currently, almost all building regulations in Europe only address carbon emissions from the building operation, ignoring the emissions that are generated before a building comes into use and at the end of its life. Certain leading markets like Denmark, Finland, France and the Netherlands have already enacted whole life carbon policies.

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Massive investment programme needed to facilitate carbon neutral future, WEF report claims

Workplace Insight

trillion in investments is derived from average clean power generation costs of solar, off-shore and on-shore wind, nuclear and geothermal, electrolyzer costs for clean hydrogen and carbon transport, as well as storage costs. According to the report, the $13.5