Thu.Mar 02, 2023

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Coworking Explained: What Is It And Why Should You Start?

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Coworking spaces offer small businesses, freelancers, and other professionals a productive environment to complete their tasks, expand their networks, and become involved in their local business community. As of 2022, there were more than 6,200 coworking spaces in the United States — giving more than one million people a space to work and collaborate.

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When to Retire from Your First Career and How to Plan Your Next Move

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Tom Brady. Cher. Tina Turner. What do they have in common? Besides being at the top of their respective game at one time or another, all three second-guessed their initial decision to retire. They returned for one more season and a few additional farewell tours. You might not knock on your former company’s doors months after blowing out the candles on your well wishes in retirement cake.

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Ambient Scenting Makes Sense For Coworking Management

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A recently released study found that 60% of workers would take a lower paid job if it had a healthier working environment than their current job, and 42% said unpleasant odors created a stressful and anxious work environment. Pleasant fragrances can reduce stress, enhance moods, improve productivity on the job, and connect people with nature. Ambient scenting technology for office spaces can be computer controlled, efficient, hypoallergenic, and use sophisticated odor-neutralizing technology t

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Hollywood loves a good story, and few have a better one than Michael J. Fox. The charming Canadian child actor transitioned into adulthood as a box-office star miraculously untainted by scandal, and was blessed by a great marriage and family life. Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020.

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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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The Pay Gap Still Isn’t Closing 

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What’s going on: In the past two decades, not much progress has been made in the fight against the U.S. gender pay gap: women earned roughly 82 cents to every dollar men earned last year — a figure that has remained constant since 2002, according to the Pew Research Center. Parenthood is a large factor. Mothers aged 25 to 44 who have children living at home are less likely to be in the labor force and tend to work fewer hours than their childless counterparts, which can reduce their ea

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Judge Rules That Starbucks Violated Labor Law

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What’s going on: A National Labor Relations Board judge has just ruled that Starbucks has committed multiple violations of labor laws in its efforts to prevent a unionization of its Buffalo, New York locations. As a result, Starbucks must reinstate seven employees that were unjustly dismissed, and provide back pay and damages to roughly two dozen workers whose hours were cut as a means of retribution for their union support.

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Using critical observation as an Assistant

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Using critical observation as an Assistant As an Assistant, observing and analysing any situation quickly, accurately and without bias is essential. Working in a fast-paced environment can make it challenging to develop critical observational skills. Using critical observation as an Assistant is essential.We work at one hundred miles an hour, and [.

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Artificial intelligence could mean we all do more work, not less

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There’s a common perception that artificial intelligence will help streamline our work. There are even fears that it could wipe out the need for some jobs altogether. But in a study of science laboratories I carried out with three colleagues at the University of Manchester, the introduction of automated processes that aim to simplify work — and free people’s time — can also make that work more complex, generating new tasks that many workers might perceive as mundane.

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6 Business Lessons from the Jury Box

Tips From T. Marie

I’ve spent the majority of this week doing jury duty at our local Superior Court. I’ve sat on a jury before when I lived in Virginia, but this was the first time being a juror in civil cases rather than a criminal one. As with any life experiences, I walked away with a few insights, some of which I felt could be applied to running a home business. Here are my 6 lessons from the Jury Box: 1.

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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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What Does Success Really Mean to You?

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We all want success. We want to be successful and feel successful. In fact, we chase money, fame, power, education, relationships and a thousand other things without ever stopping to ask one essential question: “What does success mean to you?” Few people pause to consider what it truly means to achieve success in their own lives. As Jim Rohn said, “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.

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Congressman Proposes 4-day Workweek

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What’s going on: Congressman Mark Takano has reintroduced his 32-Hour Workweek Act (a revolutionary bill aiming to shift the current standard workweek of 40 hours to 32) by revising the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to Business Insider. “Workers across the nation are collectively reimagining their relationship to labor – and our laws need to follow suit,” said Takano, a Democrat from California.

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