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Resimercial Design Balances Comfort and Sustainability in the Office

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It’s no secret that employee health and wellness play an important role in workplace retention and recruitment. Elements such as indoor air quality , outdoor spaces, natural light, and comfortable, sustainable furniture create a dynamic workplace rooted in employee wellbeing. By embracing workplace design strategies that prioritize wellness and sustainability, companies can welcome employees back to an office that actively supports their health and the way they choose to work.

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Celebrating One Year of In the Details!

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It’s time to break out the balloons and pop the champagne because In the Details is celebrating its first birthday! Host Karen Allen is taking a stroll down memory lane and sharing some of the show’s best moments and guests from the past year. Among them: Amina AlTai , who answers the question “How do you know if you’re not aligned with work?

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Landlords Challenge Rent Stabilization in New York

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What’s going on: Landlords are pushing for a landmark decision from the Supreme Court on a case that challenges New York’s rent-stabilization laws. This move was anticipated after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals already ruled in favor of the rent laws – despite the campaign led by the Community Housing Improvement Program and the Rent Stabilization Association to sue the city and state, according to Curbed.

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Building respect in your role: Advice for Assistants

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Building respect in your role: Advice for Assistants As an Assistant, you have a unique and valuable role in your company. But it can feel overwhelming when others don't recognise the importance of what you do or disrespect your position. It may be challenging to face [.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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OpenAI CEO Says Remote Work Was A Mistake

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What’s going on: Sam Altman – the CEO of San Francisco-based OpenAI – has expressed his strong opposition to remote work during a talk hosted by financial tech giant Stripe, according to SFGATE. Altman believes that the “experiment” of remote work is “over,” and that the technology is not yet good enough for people to work remotely forever. Altman argues that there has been a loss of creativity due to remote work, and he has previously stated that companies who rushed to adopt full remo

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Replay: Doug Conant Hosts Bonnie Low-Kramen and Ann Hiatt

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Here’s the video replay from the April 26, 2023 Blueprint Leadership Summit hosted by Doug Conant, former CEO of Campbell Soup. Doug, Ann Hiatt, and I discussed “The Executive Assistant as Strategic Partner.” R/T 71 min. [link] There were so many fabulous questions in the chat. In reviewing them afterward, I realize that most of the answers will be found by reading Doug’s book The Blueprint , Ann’s book Bet on Yourself , and my books Staff Matters and Be the Ultima

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Bisley Home Space to launch at Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

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British furniture maker Bisley is to open th e doors of its new Home Space showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week (23-25 May 2023) exploring the theme of People, Wellbeing and Space – at Home and at Work. Making its debut at Clerkenwell Design Week will be the Bisley Home Space, a brand new area of the showroom dedicated to Bisley’s growing range of products for the home.

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Union Takes Legal Action to Avert US Debt Crisis

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What’s going on: The U.S. federal government is approaching a looming default crisis. The concern has triggered a national union – known as The National Association of Government Employees (NAGE) – to file a lawsuit against Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and President Joe Biden to stop them from complying with a law that places limits on the government’s total debt, according to PBS.

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Three quarters of small business owners say overwork leads to strife at home

Workplace Insight

A new poll from Sky Business claims that whilst 67 percent of SME owners and decision makers would recommend someone should start their own business, more than half (54 percent) have found running their own business more stressful since the threat of impending recession in the middle of 2022. And one of the consequences of overwork for SME owners is a tendency for stress to spill over into other parts of their lives.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Should Your Business Talk About Politics Online? 

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In the spring of 2021, the Israel-Gaza conflict was making headlines worldwide. On social media, a PR war was happening, with people on both sides of the issue posting their opinions about and videos of the conflict. When Sheila Nazarian, M.D., a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who starred on Netflix’s Skin Decision: Before and After saw the anti-Israel sentiments that were spreading, she knew she couldn’t stay silent anymore. “I went full-blown pro-Israel during the May 2021 conflict,” she

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Chance plays a huge role in career success, report confirms

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If you’ve ever thought that the success or otherwise of a career is a little or largely dependent on getting the right breaks at the right time, new research from academics in the UK and France may confirm it. The study examines the role of chance events, whether positive or negative, on managers’ career success across Europe. While positive chance events typically have a positive impact on careers, 71 percent of those having experienced a negative chance event report nevertheless a positi