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Sustainability, Well-being, and the Building Blocks of a Biophilic Workplace

Allwork

Incorporating biophilic design principles into workplace environments can have far-reaching benefits, both for individuals and for the planet. Providing a range of spatial, thermal, formal, and acoustical environments that prioritize health and well-being can make a workplace more attractive, making it commute-worthy.

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The Big ‘Why’: Unraveling the Purpose of Work in a Changing World

Success

So I started making some comics about psychology, and science and I got a contract for two years with a magazine,” Coan shares. If we refine our institutions with intention while supporting both the worker and the environment, then it could be a positive shortcut.” They paid me for each one––and Jesus, how’d that happen?

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

Success

As a Black professional, he had been through his own set of uncomfortable interactions traveling on business and was all too familiar with the array of characters you meet and the variety of tactics used to wiggle out of uncomfortable environments. The impact of toxic work environments. Shortly after, I noticed the gradual weight gain.

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Top 5 Office Waste Reduction Tips

Eco-Office Gals

Also, if you and your co-workers are conscious about the needs of the environment, then you also want to make choices that will reduce the amount of office waste that you have for the sake of being responsible with what you dispose of and how you dispose of it. But don’t stop at the break room. Make your own cleaning products.

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16 planet-friendly gift ideas, recommended by TED speakers

Ideas.Ted

3) An annual subscription to a magazine that will introduce you to great writing and emerging voices. Maps can help people rediscover the amazing diversity of their natural and built environment, support local business and help keep everyone’s footprint local. It creates stronger bonds and connects with other cultures.

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Always connected in the age of disconnection

Workplace Insight

We would consider with horror the isolation, lack of engagement with society, poor mental health and loneliness of the people who had almost completely withdrawn to their rooms. But chronic solitude and loneliness can actually harm your health, perhaps even to a greater degree than smoking or high blood pressure.

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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

Workplace Insight

Arguably, it is also behind many of the most misleading notions about work and workplace design, perhaps most importantly that a change to some single element or characteristic of a working environment will lead to a specific outcome in the behaviour of people. We are hardware as well as software, in other words.

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