Workplace Insight

MAY 3, 2024

The share of international banks actively lending to commercial real estate in the UK market has been falling since 2018. Historically, these banks provided 32–34% of financing, but their share dropped to an historical low of 25 per cent last year.”

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Colliers International, a global real estate services and investment management company, recently released their 2019 U.S. markets • Key issues facing the sector" This by itself is quite interesting. markets • Key issues facing the sector" This by itself is quite interesting. Flexible Workspace Outlook Report.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In December 2021, a survey by the National Council of Nonprofits found that “one in three nonprofits (34%) shared job vacancy rates of between 10% and 19%, and a troubling 26% responded that they had job openings for 20% to 29% of their positions.” What duties must be covered while the employee is on sabbatical?

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

According to the International Federation of Robotics, an industry body, worldwide sales of robots increased by 31% in 2017.  Their pitch was their robots were "cobots", meaning they could work along side and collaboratively with humans. It "; Expect to see more cobots in the future.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 5, 2023

However, upon delving deeper into the figures, the research shows that those with the highest salaries are twice as likely to be enrolled in a health plan than those on the lowest – 34 percent versus 16 percent.

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Allwork

MARCH 25, 2024

Frank Cottle [ 00:11:00 ]: Yeah, we became mobile internally within a space, and as well as externally, it wasn’t just external mobility, it was also internal mobility. Tim Rowe [ 00:34:31 ]: We’ve done some spin out nonprofits, but. Frank Cottle [ 00:38:47 ]: All companies are now international.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 6, 2024

Ahead of International Women’s Day, new data from Ricoh Europe claims that UK and Irish businesses risk losing out on top female talent due to an inability to support workplace flexibility, exacerbated by a lack of technology and fit-for-purpose people policy.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 25, 2018

Euromonitor International recently released their 2018 Top 10 Global Consumer Trends list,  which are listed in the chart below.   It's also "beginning to impact older generations: previously materialistic Baby Boomers are looking to downsize and simplify their lives."

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Allwork

MARCH 4, 2024

Having held key roles at Amazon, Wells Fargo, and American Family Insurance, Anastasia has honed her skills in managing internal politics and understanding diverse personalities within professional environments. Transcript Jo Meunier [ 00:01:34 ]: At work hello and welcome to the Allwork.Space Space Future of Work podcast.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 7, 2008

Is there a fee of any sort that goes with the international fax? Home About Me Advertise Trying to Phone/Fax Internationally? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, January 07, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Productivity D o you have trouble figuring out how to call a client or even a colleague in another country? It definitely works!

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Key quote from the deal press release : "We will be able to learn from TaskRabbit's digital expertise, while also providing IKEA customers additional ways to access flexible and affordable service solutions to meet the needs of today's customer," said Jesper Brodin, president and CEO of IKEA Group, in a press release.

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Allwork

JANUARY 30, 2024

Clear, adaptable WFH policies contribute significantly to internal team alignment, productivity, and overall company culture, enhancing employee satisfaction and attracting talent aligned with modern work expectations.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It offers clients a unique blend of local market insights alongside a wealth of experience, having executed projects in over 5,000 buildings across 34 countries. Studio Alliance members specialise in workplace consultancy, design, fit-out, and commercial office furnishings.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 15, 2017

greatly reduces issues and problems associated with  navigating time zones, cultures and languages that are common with international outsourcing.    Another example is the growing trend towards "near-shoring" - locating manufacturing in the U.S. Meanwhile, locating in the U.S. to lower cost areas. 

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

  Despite their small size, a smart dust "mote" (the term used for single smart dust sensor) would contain sensors, computing circuits, bidirectional wireless communications technology and a power supply. Appending "ceuticals" to a word or part of a word is a popular way of creating new buzzwords.

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2013 Health International AT&T 113

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Individualization , which the paper describes as "the puzzling elimination of returns to scale, resulting in a supplier base that consists of one-person micro-providers." "; While we agree that returns to scale have been reduced and in many cases eliminated, we don't find this puzzling.

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Allwork

JUNE 19, 2023

This service is provided internally or often by a third-party provider and functions by either integrating with the time clock the business is using or estimating the number of hours that you’d worked that week. Employees can use an EWA service to take a portion of their wages immediately, without waiting for regularly scheduled payday.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The resulting corporate "need for speed" means that companies have to be able to quickly staff up and down, often with hard to find talent. A perfect alignment between an open job/project and the internal or external skills within the enterprise talent pool is the ideal way to address work.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 4, 2015

Key quote on from their article on their study of Google Trends data related to the search term "coworking": The worldwide searches for the term “coworking” on Google have reached their current peak this March.   The article chart below shows the overall global growth in the search term "coworking"

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 15, 2016

Every so often a report comes across our desk that makes us go "wow!" "; McKinsey's Digital Globalization: The new era of global flows is such a report. It claims that "soaring flows of data and information now generate more economic value than the global goods trade."

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Across 20 major office markets, including New York, Paris and Singapore, only 34 percent of future demand for low-carbon workspace will be met in the next several years. In many global markets, rising corporate demand for buildings with sustainability credentials will have an impact on office market dynamics.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Susan Sabo proposes having a "watch out" day or evening on her Productivity Blog. This is a way to tune into your internal clock. But when you don’t, try leaving the watch on the bureau and forgetting about its constant ticking. Without the pressure of time, you may find that you’re more productive.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 8, 2016

Susan Sabo proposes having a "watch out" day or evening on her Productivity Blog. This is a way to tune into your internal clock. But when you don’t, try leaving the watch on the bureau and forgetting about its constant ticking. Without the pressure of time, you may find that you’re more productive.

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2008 International Promotion 100

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 29, 2017

With organizations choosing to run lean, often internal employees don't have the bandwidth to take on new tasks.  They describe this as "the world's largest talent agency" This initiative has features that help corporations with all 3 drivers discussed above. Increasingly, it's an outside contractor.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Globalization and international trade was once driven almost exclusively by large multinational corporations. goods exports in in 2004 to 34% percent in 2014. goods exports in in 2004 to 34% percent in 2014. In fact, according to the U.S. SBA  small business goods exports have grown from 29% of total U.S.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Is peaceful international collaboration ending? This is the key question asked in Knowledge@Wharton's  How to Manage the Top Five Global Economic Challenges. The article is written by Kalin Anev Janse, secretary general of the European Stability Mechanism (the eurozone’s lender of last resort).

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way to "talk" to your subconscious?    I call that optimizing your internal operating system. "; Research shows that over 70% of our self-talk is negative!  Great Tool I've Found to Optimize My Internal Operating System. Stephanie LH Calahan.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 6, 2015

The "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) listed above is an agreement between the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. It covers the growing number of regulations and rules related to hiring contingent workers. The slide is below (click to enlarge).

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 16, 2016

Key quote from MSFT's CEO's memo to employees on the deal: "Think about it: How people find jobs, build skills, sell, market and get work done and ultimately find success requires a connected professional world. It This will lead to more corporations viewing coworking as part of the future of work.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 10, 2017

The researchers predicted that by 2017, the share of "nontraditional" workers would grow to 25% contingent, 34% gray area, and 41% traditional workers. ";" Human Capital's Top five talent management predictions for 2017 : 2017 will see the redefinition of work become more pronounced.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As you can see from the chart below, the use of the term "digital nomad" started to gain traction in the 2008-2009 time frame.   So I thought I would look into the history of this term and trend. There's been a number of good articles on digital nomads lately.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 17, 2017

It's our"go to" site for information on rural and small town businesses and we highly recommend it. International travelers are starting to make rural regions like the Deep South their first destination in the US, skipping traditional big city visits. Small towns excel at offering authentic experiences.

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2017 Travel International UPS 100

Small Business Labs

MAY 29, 2012

.   According to the article, they are looking for white American males "to sit near the front of an office or to join in on meetings because it apparently adds a level of sophistication." "; This practice was also common in Japan during the boom years of the late 1980s. ";  . ";  .

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Tryout Economy is what we call the shift from offering people traditional jobs to offering them internships or temporary assignments as "tryouts" where they are evaluated in-depth prior to getting a premanent job offer.  The reasons for this are straight forward. .

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 23, 2014

 Many knowledge-based firms (Emergent Research included) often serve international clients but don't really think of it as "exporting"  It is.  Read this chapter to better understand how to reach and build your international customer base. It is fun, but also exhausting and a lot of work.

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International Legal Travel AT&T 100

Small Business Labs

JANUARY 26, 2012

In case you missed the announcement, 2012 is the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives. The UN defines cooperatives as: "Cooperatives are business enterprises owned and controlled by the very members that they serve. "; There are also 7 principles of cooperatives : Voluntary and Open Membership.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2011

The Wall Street Journal's Overseas Start-Ups Move In covers the trend of international technology startups moving to Silicon Valley.    According to the article, they move "to get access to venture capital, top talent and other resources."  Interesting   The reason? 

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