Allwork

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Many organizations have been exploring workplace design solutions that can attract employees back to the office. However, an amazing physical space alone can’t achieve that. Melissa Pesci and Amin Mojtahedi of HGA surveyed their clients to understand what makes a productive and happy workplace and came up with six scalable ideas. Companies must be intentional about reimagining their office environment to transition from a remote to on-site work model.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

I don’t know his name, but his messy, shoulder-length hair hides a pair of hauntingly blue eyes. It’s a warm September day in New York, but he’s sitting under a mountain of ragged bits of clothing, towels and blankets. In one hand, he loosely holds a piece of string attached to the neck of the small, mangy-looking dog lying next to him. In the other hand, he clutches a nearly empty bottle of cheap vodka.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What’s going on: WeWork has forecasted revenue lower than expected for the current quarter, demonstrating that their business of providing flexible workspace is feeling the impacts of the recent wave of job cuts in the tech industry. The company’s stocks dropped 5.5% in morning trading after their projected revenue of $830 million to $855 million fell short of analysts’ predictions of $918.4 million, according to Reuters.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Quiet quitting was trending in 2022, as employees responded to feeling underappreciated , underutilized and under-compensated. So, they stopped trying, doing the bare minimum necessary to stay employed and fly under the radar. Business leaders now have a response, one called “quiet hiring.” This new workplace phenomenon is the result of bosses trying to figure out creative ways to fill gaps in their companies without spending extra money to hire new employees.

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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

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What’s going on: Kevin Roose, a renowned tech-savvy Times columnist, had a rather disturbing dialogue with the advanced Microsoft Bing search engine. The AI-enabled chat feature, situated next to the main search box on Bing, allowed for a lengthy two-hour discussion on any matter. This feature is accessible to only a select number of users at the present time, but Microsoft has expressed its intentions of broadening its availability in the future.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Last summer, we banned personal electronics from our family vacation—no laptops, iPods, video games or other devices. Instead we played cards, read books and watched the Olympics. The first book on my list was Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged , which I’d read for college years ago. I wanted to reread the 1957 novel because it was being discussed as the presidential race heated up in August 2012.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Back in 2020, the Department of Labor released a Field Assistance Bulletin to its investigators, which concluded that an employee who worked in the office, ran errands during the afternoon, and continued working at home didn’t need to be paid for the time she was running errands because it was personal time. However, things get a bit muddier with remote employees, and the DOL’s guidelines and regulations are constantly being updated.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In his recent book, The Constitution of Knowledge, the author Jonathan Rauch argues that knowledge consists of something about which nearly everybody can agree, and which has been arrived at by a structured, ongoing and benign process of debate and discovery. Without this social architecture, things unravel and sometimes in catastrophic ways. The undermining of knowledge and the processes that lead to it has been one of the defining characteristics of authoritarians for the entirety of human his

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