Fri.Apr 14, 2023

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NYC Office Vacancies Are At Record High

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What’s going on: As the demand for office space dropped due to the switch to remote working, New York City office vacancy rates surged to an all-time high of 16.1% in the first quarter of 2023 — leading the way in a nationwide trend that saw vacancy rates sitting at 16.4%. As a result, New York has been attempting to repurpose office spaces into residential buildings.

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Matchmaker Consultant for ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Shares Top Relationship Red Flags

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Bonnie Winston began her career as a matchmaker at the age of 16. While dancing with her friends at a New York City club in 1979, she set up one of her friends with a guy Winston had met. Six years later, the matched couple got married. Winston unofficially continued the practice for the next 30 years—successfully matching hundreds of couples. In 2013, she made it official by creating a business , aptly named Bonnie Winston Matchmaker.

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How To Design Impactful Offices? Prioritize ESG Goals

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Increasingly, building/office owners are considering how their design projects and their workplaces reflect their ESG goals. Designing spaces that promote the well-being of people and the planet can be challenging. HOK designers Christine Vandover and Komal Kotwal share how a disciplined approach to design can lead to sustainable, equitable and healthy new workplaces.

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

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Every great business starts with an idea , but actually growing that idea into a viable company has its challenges —such as getting the financial support you need. No matter what kind of business you want to scale , access to advisers and experienced business owners can be a valuable tool. When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, r

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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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Spain Offers To Pay Companies Trying Out A 4-Day Work Week

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What’s going on: Spanish businesses with fewer than 250 employees have one month to apply for an ambitious government pilot program: cutting their work week to four days while still earning full pay. The €9.6 million scheme aims to support small and medium-sized industrial firms, with around 25-30% of workers having reduced hours with full salary, and employers being partially compensated up to €200,000 and the consulting costs of designing new work schemes.

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Mexico’s Bold Move: Rethinking the Workweek to Revolutionize Latin American Work Culture

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What is happening? Mexico’s Senate Labor Commission will hold a forum on April 20th to discuss the feasibility of reducing the workweek in the country. Various proposals are being considered, such as working from Monday to Thursday or reducing the daily work schedule from 8 to 6 hours. Why does it matter? Mexico has the highest number of annual work hours among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries, with an average of 2,137 hours per year.

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American Marriages Are Becoming More Financially Equal

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What’s going on: Over the past 50 years, the number of women earning the same, or more than, their husbands has tripled — resulting in more financially “egalitarian” marriages, according to the Pew Research Center. Today, in 29% of opposite-sex marriages both spouses earn nearly the same; which, since 1972, is a decrease from the 85% of marriages with the husband as the main or only breadwinner.

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