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How To Lead Globally Distributed Teams: 3 Strategies From Leadership Experts

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Diverse global teams are not a future concept that’s growing alongside increasing acceptance of remote work, but a present-day reality: One-third of employees at U.S. multinational companies are based overseas Teams stretched across continents and time zones help facilitate access to broader talent pools and emerging markets. From Tokyo to Toronto, remote and hybrid work are redefining what’s possible — and reshaping how and where work happens.

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Assistants: How to be Sober at The Work Summer Party

The Assistant Room

Summer brings a familiar rhythm in the corporate world; networking receptions, client dinners, company picnics, rooftop mixers. For Personal and Executive Assistants, these events are […] The post Assistants: How to be Sober at The Work Summer Party first appeared on The Assistant Room.

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New Fair Work Week Rules Set To Transform Hourly Retail Scheduling In Los Angeles County

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Starting July 1, 2025, large retail and grocery employers in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County will be required to comply with a sweeping new ordinance aimed at providing more predictable schedules and protections for workers, according to the California Labor and Employment Law Blog. The Fair Work Week Ordinance targets companies with 300 or more employees nationwide, introducing a set of rules that aim to improve transparency, stability, and fairness in scheduling practices.

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ROOM Launches The Room Collection: flexible architecture for today’s hybrid workplace 

Workplace Insight

ROOM , the leading modular architecture company behind the award-winning Phone Booth and pioneer in flexible workplace design, has introduced The Room Collection: a new series of scalable and adaptable rooms, designed to provide privacy in open floorplans and meet the dynamic needs of today’s businesses and office workers. A major pain point for employees is working in an office that hasn’t yet been optimized for the hybrid workplace.

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The Memory Edge: Outlearn, Outperform, Outlast

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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No Trainers, No Translations, No Problem: How AI Is Democratizing — And Drastically Speeding Up — Workplace Training

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Proficiency with AI tools has quickly become a top skill, and companies are working to train their employees how to use it. At the same time, AI is also emerging as a useful training tool in its own right. Across industries, AI is helping companies create training materials faster and more efficiently, as well as allowing them to design new, more interactive methods to train workers.

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Shining Star: Shana Christensen

Office Dynamics

In her 15+ years at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she created a new EA role with a new executive, for a new division, and recently spearheaded the Administrative Assistant Network to connect and empowers assistants across the U.S. and Canada, our June Shining Star Shana Christensen shares how to have a successful career as an EA.

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It’s not just the cities. Extreme heat is a growing threat to rural America.

Vox Open Sourced

Summer has officially begun with a blast of scorching temperatures across much of the United States. The National Weather Service is warning of “extremely dangerous heat” baking 160 million people under a heat dome stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast the rest of this week. It’s already proven fatal. But while this is the first real taste of extreme heat for Northeastern cities, parts of the country like Texas have been cooking since May.

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New JLL Report Reveals Top 2025 Occupancy Planning Goals Of Commercial Real Estate Leaders

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In 2025, portfolio optimization has overtaken improved reporting and cost reduction as the leading occupancy planning goal for corporate real estate leaders. According to JLL’s Global Occupancy Planning Benchmark Report 2025 , 73% of respondents named it their primary focus, reflecting a growing maturity in workplace strategies. Top Occupancy Planning Priorities Portfolio optimization: 73% Reduce cost of portfolio: 71% Improve space data accuracy: 68% Improve reporting: 64% Increase employee pre

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NTSB faults Boeing for lack of safety protocols in 737 Max door plug blowout

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The nation's top safety investigators concluded that a lack of basic safety processes at Boeing, coupled with an inexperienced workforce, contributed to the door plug blowout in January 2024.

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New York Weighs Statewide Four-Day Workweek Pilot That Could Reshape U.S. Labor Norms

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A new legislative proposal in New York is aiming to trial a four-day workweek across both public and private sectors, potentially laying the foundation for larger reforms in how Americans approach work. If implemented, the initiative could offer a new model for work-life balance and productivity, not just in New York, but nationwide. According to Newsweek , the proposal is outlined in two bills introduced earlier this year in the New York State Assembly.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: What Really Matters

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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What Is ESG Investing? An Overview of a Sustainable Wealth-Building Strategy

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Investing can help us thrive. Today, however, investing can go beyond just the monetary aspect. Institutions, investors and governments alike are recognizing the need to take greater accountability for their role in the health and sustainability of the planet. This is where ESG factors come into play. What exactly is ESG investing? It is an investment approach that considers non-financial factors like environmental, social and governance (ESG).

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U.K. Flex Market Defies CRE Trends With 895% Growth And 93% London Occupancy, Report Shows

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Once considered an alternative workspace model, flex is now firmly embedded in the commercial real estate mainstream. What began as a post-dotcom experiment has grown into a resilient, investor-grade asset class, driven by strong occupier demand, institutional investment, and operational maturity. According to Spaces to Places new UK Flex Office report , London office occupancy remains strong at 93%, proving demand for well-run workspaces is resilient.

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Federal Judge Rules It's Legal to Train AI on Copyrighted Books, Marking Major Win for AI Companies

Entrepreneur.com

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco stated in a ruling that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books as training material for Claude was fair use, a win for AI companies.

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GCUC To Host 50th Conference in NYC

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The Global Coworking Unconference Community ( GCUC ), the world’s largest coworking conference series, announces that its milestone 50th conference will take place April 13-16, 2026, in New York City. The landmark event will be hosted at Jay Suites Conference Center through a generous venue partnership that perfectly exemplifies the community-first collaboration at the heart of the coworking movement.

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How To Overcome Change Fatigue In Finance With Neuroscience-Backed Strategies

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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How US air strikes in Iran might affect the country's nuclear program and leadership

NPR Technology

Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour discusses the war between Israel and Iran, potential fallout from U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear sites, and how this may affect Tehran's authoritarian regime.

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Career Experts Explain How Gen Z Can Break In When AI Has Broken The Entry-Level Path

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AI is on a collision course with young people. Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the technology can already perform the tasks equal to that of an entry-level employee. Now, in a podcast posted just last week, the ChatGPT mastermind went even further—saying AI can even perform tasks typically expected of the smartest grads with a doctorate.

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Fired Justice Department lawyer accuses agency of planning to defy court orders

NPR Technology

The accusations from a veteran government lawyer add to broader concern about the Trump administration's repeated clashes with the judiciary.

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Goldman Sachs Rolls Out AI Assistant, Defying Job-Cut Fears — For Now

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Goldman Sachs is embracing artificial intelligence, but, for now at least, it won’t cost any workers their jobs. The investment firm has launched the GS AI Assistant, an AI program that will let workers across its divisions converse with large language models that are firewalled within Goldman, ideally eliminating the threat that sensitive data could escape into the wild.

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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A Possible Iran-Israel Ceasefire and Why China is Watching the War Closely

NPR Technology

President Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran on social media and the agreement was immediately tested. We'll hear the latest. And China has been watching developments in the war closely because gets much of its crude oil imports from Iran through a "dark fleet" of vessels to evade American sanctions.

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Amazon To Create Thousands Of Jobs With $54 Billion Investment In Britain

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Amazon has deepened its commitment to Britain, with the e-commerce giant saying it plans to invest 40 billion pounds ($54 billion) over the next three years, a move the UK government hailed as a vote of confidence in its economic policies. Elected in 2024, the Labour government has made boosting Britain’s anaemic growth a priority and wants to see a step up in foreign investment.

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You Deserve Better Than ‘Fine’: Escaping the Stability Trap

Tips From T. Marie

This article was written by TMarieHilton and originally published on T.Marie Hilton's Clerical Advantage. I stayed in work that crushed my soul… because it felt safer than the unknown. That’s the truth. And not some dramatic moment either…just that quiet, gut-level realization that the thing I kept calling “security” was slowly wearing me down.

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Sometimes the Plan Needs to Change, Even When it Was a Good One

Stephanie LH Calahan

Sometimes the plan needs to change, even when it was a good one. Twenty years ago my flower bed was completely filled with weeds. I had a dream of a butterfly 🦋 garden that I could enjoy from my office window. One filled with color. The space has been cultivated for several years. We planted. We nurtured. We were patient. And it worked. Sort of. The space was full sun when we started, but over time, the tree in our backyard has grown taller than our two-story home.

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The New Way Remote Finance Teams Are Protecting Accuracy And Building Resilience In A Cyber-Threatened World

Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry

Remote finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs—and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats have become more than just “growing pains”. They’re now liabilities. The challenge isn’t just team distribution, but building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell says tariff uncertainty warrants caution on rate cuts

NPR Technology

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, under continued attack from President Trump, says the impact of tariffs on inflation should become clearer in the coming months.

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Why Storytelling Beats Bullet Points and Facts Every Time

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Bullet points fade. Stories stick. If you want your message to land, not just get heard, use these five proven storytelling frameworks to turn dry content into something people actually remember.

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The good news (154 million deaths avoided) and bad news about childhood vaccines

NPR Technology

A new study points out success stories — and potential obstacles — to bringing vaccines to the world's children.

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Amazon Is Expanding Same-Day Delivery to Thousands of Small Towns and Rural Areas

Entrepreneur.com

Amazon is expanding its Same-Day and Next-Day Delivery options to 4,000 smaller cities and rural communities by the end of 2026, the company announced Tuesday.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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How summer camp became an American obsession

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A boathouse at an old Boy Scouts of America camp in Milton, New York, in 2017. | John Carl D’Annibale/Albany Times Union via Getty Images Summer camp. It’s where kids go every year to make friends , find their long-lost twin , or even evade a slasher wreaking havoc on the campers and counselors. At least, that’s what pop culture would lead you to believe: For the outsized space they take up in our consciousness, going to camp for the summer isn’t actually all that common.

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After This LGBTQ Couple Lost Their Jobs Within 30 Days of Each Other, They Started a Business — With Goats. It Led to More Than $150 Million.

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Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge bought a farm as a weekend getaway. After losing their jobs in the 2008 recession, they started a business: Beekman 1802.

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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

Vox Open Sourced

This story was originally published in The Highlight , Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. If you aren’t feeling the itch yet, you will soon. It could come by the end of this sentence or, on a good day, the fifth paragraph. But before long, a little voice in your head will whisper, “Click away for just a second” — just long enough to take a quick glance at your email or Instagram feed or group cha

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Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in London will feature a bridge reminiscent of her tiara

NPR Technology

'/> Foster + Partners architecture firm beat out four competitors to design the memorial, which will also feature statues of the queen and her husband Prince Philip.

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How To Break Digital Transformation Barriers And Accelerate AI Adoption

Speaker: Anna Tiomina, MBA

AI is reshaping industries, yet finance remains one of the slowest adopters. Concerns over compliance, legacy systems, and data silos have made finance teams hesitant to embrace AI-driven transformation. But delaying adoption isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about staying competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. How can finance leaders overcome these challenges and start leveraging AI effectively?