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The Future Of Commercial Real Estate In The 21st Century City

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Copyright: Jeff Goldberg/Esto, Courtesy Perkins Eastman Return to Cities Means Return to Office In cities built for people to live in one area and work in another, we need high office occupancy and the guaranteed captive audience Monday-Friday, 9-5 to keep transport networks, restaurants, dry cleaners, and other smaller businesses running.

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How Designers Can Set The Stage For A Flexible Future

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These surveys give the firm real-time insights to shape future policy and space design. Copyright James Ewing. In our Ann Arbor location for example, which was designed in 2011, we’ve found that when the office is at only 35-percent occupancy meeting spaces are fully booked. Copyright David Pires Photography.

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Why Worry About Ethics?

Virtual Moxie

Here are a couple of examples of things you might come up with if you were to think of things that might be ethical challenges in your practice: * Working for competitors (conflict of interest) * Billing differently than agreed (or padding your invoice) only unethical if you don't tell the client that you do it Here are a couple of examples of ethical (..)

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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

Ian's Messy Desk

Six points for merchants : Make protection of personal information a company priority; designate someone in your business to coordinate privacy policies and practices. For example, Social Insurance Numbers are rarely needed for retail transactions. Information on your computers should be password protected with adequate safeguards.

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8 Work-Life Balance Myths

Ian's Messy Desk

Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. Many companies offer their work-life balance policies to employees at all levels. Participation in family-friendly policies is a career-limiting move. Management will lose control.

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How to be an Effective Mentor

Ian's Messy Desk

Mentoring can be one of the most effective means of teaching: inviting someone to learn from the example of another with more experience. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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3 C's To Help Simplify Instructions

Ian's Messy Desk

For example: Your manager wants to improve employee technical skills; mentions the benefits of having a needs analysis to plan the training ; and asks you to look into self-study manuals, seminars, teleconferencing and cheaper training options. Condense: Take what was said and break it down. Number each step.