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July 25, 2017
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Tech giants create elaborate work facilities
Tech giants create elaborate work facilities
Apple Park (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Apple, Facebook and Google have individually built or plan to build huge structures to house their facilities and to symbolize global power. Rowan Moore examines them, focusing on Apple's $5 billion campus of 2.8 million square feet that accommodates 12,000 employees in a single building.
The Observer (London) (7/23) 
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Recruiting & Retention
With unemployment low, companies might turn to AI
Company leaders are increasingly mentioning artificial intelligence during earnings calls, possibly indicating AI technology will make waves across the services sector. Demand for AI is likely to increase as the US nears full employment.
Bloomberg Professional Services (7/20) 
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Leadership & Development
Strategies for Success from TrainingMag.com
Ericsson uses street campaign to recruit
Ericsson hosts an event annually on the streets of Stockholm to recruit interns and to pique interest in the company and a career in science, technology, engineering and math. At this year's event, 90 interns passed out lists of available positions to interested pedestrians, talked with people at metro stations and completed fun challenges to demonstrate the company's positive culture, writes Ericsson's Anders Oesterlund.
Training magazine (7/24) 
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Benefits & Compensation
Study: Voluntary benefits may boost part-timers' financial security
Part-time employees who are offered voluntary benefits through their work could see their financial security improve, according to a study by Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Such benefits can be cheaper as part of a group plan and can assist part-time employees in paying out-of-pocket expenses, said Peter Marcia of YouDecide.
Society for Human Resource Management online (7/20) 
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The HR Leader
A method for embracing change
To help your company change for the better, diagnose your current culture and where you'd like to be, and emphasize the importance of company leaders' participation, writes Andi Simon, a corporate anthropologist. "Once you begin to realize that more of the same is not going to build better results, you need a process to change how people think about their work life and habits," Simon writes.
HR People + Strategy Blog (7/19) 
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson,
28th US president
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