Workplace Insight

JANUARY 3, 2025

Workers are resisting the so-called return to office due to a lack of desk space, following widespread reductions by companies in the wake of Covid. A fifth of workers cited a shortage of desks and facilities among their top three reasons for avoiding the office, according to a survey by real estate consultancy Remit Consulting. The firm claims that businesses may have scaled back desk numbers too aggressively after the pandemic spurred a rise in home working.

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TED Talks

JANUARY 3, 2025

What's the best way to develop and implement solutions to social problems? TED Fellow and human rights activist Monica Malta discusses why traditional, top-down policymaking often fails by excluding key voices and missing root causes. She shows why community-based participatory research — a method that empowers communities to co-create solutions to their own challenges — taps into the resilience and strength of everyday people to be leaders of change.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

Three, two, one, Happy New Year! (Queue the fireworks and blares from party horns). This end-of-year holiday is always met with a flurry of glitz and glitter. But somewhere between the toasts, parties and endless celebrations, many people will also find themselves carving out time for reflection and planning for days to come. Enter inspirational New Years quotes.

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TED Talks

JANUARY 3, 2025

TED Fellow and economic policy researcher Huiyi Lin is cocreator of "The Poverty Line," an art project examining poverty through the lens of food. By photographing the daily food choices of people living at the poverty line in 38 countries and territories around the world, Lin shines a light on the problem of poverty in a way no policy report ever could.

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Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

Skills

Allwork

JANUARY 3, 2025

Spain ended 2024 with 2.56 million people unemployed, the fewest in December since 2007, the Labour Ministry said on Friday on its website. The number of people in Spain registering as jobless fell 0.98% in December from a month earlier, or by 25,300 people, the ministry said. The number was 5.4% lower than in December 2023, but above the 2.13 million registered without a job in December 2007. “We finished the year 2024 as we had started it: reducing unemployment, fighting precariousness a

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Productivityist

JANUARY 3, 2025

In this Flashback Friday episode, I revisit my conversation with Paul Jarvis from 2019, to discuss the release of his bestselling book, Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business. Pauls insights into building a fulfilling, scalable business without unnecessary growth struck a chord with listeners and remain highly relevant today.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 3, 2025

Businesses are increasingly likely to prioritise workers willing to come into the office for pay rises and promotions, according to a new poll from Reed Group. A year ago Reed.co.uk , which deals with over 30 million job applications a year, predicted that employers would increasingly mandate days in the office and would prioritise what it called the in-person premium.

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Success

JANUARY 3, 2025

Last week, I did yoga with my landscaper. Before he cut the grass, Joseph mentioned he was struggling to teach himself yoga through YouTube videos. I was meandering barefoot through the flower beds, so I invited him to remove his shoes and join me for an impromptu class. It was so much fun that we discussed doing weekly garden yoga once spring returns.

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Allwork

JANUARY 3, 2025

The movement of skilled professionals is an important part of India-U.S. ties and benefits both countries, New Delhi said on Friday amid a debate over H-1B visas on which President-elect Donald Trump and his backer Elon Musk commented recently. India, known for its massive pool of IT professionals, many of whom work across the world, accounts for the bulk of such visas issued by the United States.

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