Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

A new meta-analysis published in the Journal of Occupational Health suggests that a one size fits all approach to working from home is best avoided, as the outcomes for people in terms of their productivity and wellbeing can vary enormously. Home workers were found to be more sedentary, on the whole.

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Achievers

JANUARY 11, 2021

Here are five creative virtual employee appreciation ideas you can use to recognize and celebrate employee contributions, regardless of where they work. Upgrade workstation furniture for home offices. As we all learned very quickly, working from home comes with its own unique set of challenges.

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Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s this kind of a win-win that should guide your efforts to find employee perk ideas. Inside the office A comfortable working environment is a must-have, but there are plenty of other ways to go beyond and create something amazing. What if employees didn’t have to leave the office in order to relax, for example?

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A new survey concludes that three days a week in the office appears to be optimal for many people to optimise key aspects of workplace culture and performance. The report commissioned by Ipsos Karian and Box is based on a survey of 1,400 full-time UK office workers.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 12, 2024

With the pandemic now over, whether to return to work or continue work from home is a hot topic of discussion. As per a CNBC report , Goldman Sachs wants employees to attend office five days a week. Google is factoring employees’ in-office attendance into their performance reviews. There’s a catch!

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Get ready to ring in the New Year at the office! This blog is packed with the 50 best New Year Office Party Ideas for 2024 to make your celebration a hit. Explore this blog for top office New Year party ideas, including exclusive suggestions for remote teams and various company sizes to suit different budgets.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 19, 2023

The working-from-home debate was reignited this week following Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s comments that the office should be the default location for workers, unless they have good reason to work from home. So, have the past three years taught us nothing about how the majority of employees really work from home?

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Working from home on a regular basis has become typical, not ad hoc or as required. Commuting five days a week to attend an office is no longer the norm and on the whole is no longer demanded – rather, we have seen organisations adopt hybrid working. More than ever before, the office must be multi–purposed and activity based.

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Business Management Daily

JULY 19, 2021

Our payroll software requires us to set up a home location for each worker, but with 800+ workers, many in the same state, this will become burdensome. We set up a new office location for an employee who will be working in Chicago. We’re looking for a shortcut. What you need to know. Working in one state but living in another.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This leaves us full of work-life balance ideas, chasing a packed schedule with no actual net gain. Evolving Workforce Each generation has its own work-life balance ideas and opinions and Gen Z is no different. Do I carry my work home with me to get tasks done? Assess Your Situation: Do You Have a Good Work-Life Balance?

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Achievers

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To some degree, employees working from home is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Here are some ideas on how to rethink community and culture-building when employees aren’t in the office: . Virtual lunches are another great idea—recreate the breakroom via video chat and catch up on work or non-work conversations.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

One of them is that people are better off carrying out focussed, quiet work at home, and creative and collaborative work in the office. And that this might suggest our approach to office acoustics would shift in particular ways. Many people live in circumstances that do not support their ability to work well from home.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporate culture has fundamentally changed since the pandemic and with it, so has the way employees interact with the office. This has put leaders under pressure to create experiences for employees that complement, and in some ways even compete with, the comforts of home.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Anna Karenina Principle was popularised twenty or so years ago, but the underlying idea is nothing new. This is the cargo cult approach to office design , the attempt to make a family happy by buying the stuff that the happy family next door owns. It describes how success can only happen in one way, but failure comes in many forms.

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Achievers

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Here are 15 great employee appreciation ideas to suit any situation, team member, and budget. You can try idea after idea until finding a few employee appreciation methods your team members respond to, but why beat around the bush? Help team members create the office of their dreams.

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Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Returning to the office, whether hybrid or a full transition, has presented a wide array of difficulties for employees. That would be training employees unaware of office etiquette rules or helping others brush up on them after years of working at home. One of these may be a challenge you, as a manager, never saw coming.

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HR Digest

JUNE 23, 2023

Our list of 15 “Best 4 th of July Office Party Ideas” will make you forget you’re missing those grills full of meat and coolers full of beer in your neighbor’s backyard. There are plenty of ways to bring the Fourth of July festivities into the office. Celebrating the Fourth of July at office doesn’t have to be complicated.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 3, 2023

As such, in the early days of the pandemic it was naturally prefixed to ‘work’ to refer to spending time labouring at the office and (as was the requirement at the time for many) at home. Office and prototype workshop, say. It also lifts us out of the focus on office work alone, as the three apply to all work.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 26, 2023

Over the last few years there has been something of a loud and widespread backlash to the idea that we need to have constant access to information and our colleagues to work effectively. It is also one of the main reasons people prefer to work anywhere other than offices some or all of the time.

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HR Bartender

AUGUST 4, 2020

When COVID-19 started making headlines and employees were working from home, the idea was that this was all temporary. In fact, many organizations are telling employees they can stay home for the rest of the summer, year, or forever. Think of it as “Working from Home Version 2.0”. That hasn’t exactly happened.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Instead of planning off-site work events to break routine with office life, companies are now planning on-site meetings so their employees can interact face-to-face and get a break from working virtually. Other meetings that can benefit from being scheduled at the office: Project meetings – Get the right stakeholders together.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Dream of Secret Santa, Ugly Jumpers and, next thing you know, you’re jostling with the accounts over… the office Christmas party ! Maybe yours won’t be as wild as the 2016 Hollywood movie of the same name but, if you’re planning to make your office Christmas party a success, here are some tips to help you put together the annual event.

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Insperity

AUGUST 11, 2020

As some employers start to bring their employees back to work and others mull it over, leaders and managers may be eager to put 2020’s massive, sudden work from home experiment behind them. Organizations competing for talent will need to offer a mix of in-office and remote work – or a fully remote workforce. And what should it include?

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 16, 2023

In a post-pandemic working world, the idea of a work-life balance has certainly changed. Test out sticking to working normal work hours, particularly if you’re working from home, rather than logging on your laptop at 7pm to only stop reading emails at 9pm.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 23, 2022

I was going for a ride with an idea to see where it went. The office has always been with us. There is a standardised, laundered history of the office that begins with the design of Frank Lloyd-Wright’s Larkin building in 1903. But the office in its generic sense has been with us for thousands of years. And this was it.

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Take It Personel-ly

JANUARY 12, 2021

The idea of working from home can be appealing. Without the structure of an office atmosphere to keep you on task, it’s easy to get distracted. You get to skip the commute and have the flexibility of working independently. However, remote work can also present some challenges.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Is this the death of the office? The evidence: The office is back: is this the end of hybrid working? No And the exception that prove the rule: Is the four-day week a good idea? But far from signalling the death of flexible working, these moves are taking place in a much-changed landscape for working culture and offices.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 12, 2023

It wasn’t a technology at all but rather a slightly obscure office design concept that originated in Hamburg in the late 1950s, but which tells us a lot about how we work in the 21st Century office, according to Gartner. Management was no longer isolated to private offices. Some familiar themes. A new world order.

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COMPackage

MARCH 28, 2024

For example, the provision of free meals at the office is still an attractive perk, but not as much as it used to be. To stay competitive, your company should consider providing several options, such as: a work-from-home setup for most — if not all — workdays, compressed workweeks whenever possible, and flexible operating hours.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 11, 2022

While there are numerous benefits to being able to work from home, as the pandemic continues on, time has brought some of the challenges of remote work to light, serving as a reminder that balance is key to a hybrid work environment. Working from the office was the norm for many employees pre-pandemic. Working from home.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Strangely there is a consensus on some things that people who work from home do not miss at all about their old work life. After being stuck at home for almost six months most work from home people are either ready to throw in the towel and wishing for any setting but home, and others that have grown quite comfortable in this new routine.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 18, 2023

Academic research from Stanford Professor Nick Bloom et al suggests this positively impacts talent retention and attraction, with a reduction in attrition of 35 percent for those able to work from home two days a week. The office remains an essential environment for social collaboration and building a strong workplace culture.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 11, 2023

Following a session on ‘Gen Z and the Lure of the Office’, chaired by Unispace’s Stuart Finnie at CoreNet Global’s EMEA Summit last month, I spoke to some Gen Zedders at one (of the many) parties I attended. Organisations had already started to focus on delivering a better workplace experience in order to bring employees back to the office.

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Hppy

MARCH 22, 2021

As more and more people start working from home , whether as a result of COVID-19 or simply because of our world’s digital transformation, there is an increasing need for a home office for many people. . Having your own home office gives you space away from your life to work and be more productive.

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HR Lineup

JANUARY 15, 2024

The traditional 9-to-5 office routine has given way to more flexible arrangements, allowing employees to work from the comfort of their homes or adopt a combination of office and remote work. As businesses adapt to the changing times, the debate over which approach is superior intensifies.

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15Five

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we’ll introduce several out of the box wellness ideas for HR professionals to implement to create a happier, healthier workplace. If your team is in-office or hybrid, team sports leagues are a great opportunity to bond and break a sweat. Team sports leagues: Never played in a dodgeball or softball league?

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 28, 2020

The Top 7 Disadvantages of Working from Home at a glance. Lack of Office Equipment and Security Concerns. Since this switch, employees have been raving about how it's so great to be able to work remotely, independently, and on their own schedules, among all the other benefits of working from home. Table of Contents.

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