Does your workplace earn employees' trust? | Hey! Sit up straight! | Healthy office buildings are getting ready to evolve
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April 23, 2020
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Getting Ahead
To improve organization resilience, companies should make work portable so the amount of work isn't limited for remote employees, according to experts. Using increased automation and cross-industry talent exchanges are also ways businesses can navigate the coronavirus.
Full Story: Harvard Business Review online (tiered subscription model) (4/22) 
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Gain employees' trust by giving them clear goals, allowing them to make mistakes, investing in their career development and monitoring bias, writes Josh Bersin. "When employees feel a sense of trust and humanity at work, they translate this into new products, innovative ideas, amazing customer service and high degrees of resilience," he writes.
Full Story: HR People + Strategy Blog (4/21) 
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Hey! Sit up straight!
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To avoid a tight neck or sore wrists, workers at home should remember to keep good posture, which consists of feet flat on the ground, a straight spine and head not hunched forward. Health expert Stephanie Mansour has compiled a list of exercises to improve overall posture and combat poor posture while working.
Full Story: CNN (4/22) 
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The Landscape
Healthy office buildings are getting ready to evolve
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The pandemic adds a layer to what a healthy office building might feature -- instead of just offering things like enhanced air quality control systems, the healthy office building of the future might include scanners that detect signs of illness in workers as they enter the workplace. The costs of such amenities will be passed on to tenants, who might recoup those costs by paying lower health insurance premiums for their employees.
Full Story: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (4/20) 
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Electricity usage is showing new trends for people in lockdown like sleeping later and less productive afternoons, writes Rachel Morison. Other habits include staying up later and an increase in streaming subscriptions for services like Netflix and Disney+ which could remain after the pandemic passes as some workers could be comfortable working from home.
Full Story: Bloomberg (tiered subscription model) (4/22) 
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Balancing Yourself
Get lost in your thoughts while social distancing
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Isolation due to the pandemic is a great opportunity to just sit -- or walk -- and think about past travels and adventures, much like great philosophers do. "Part of why we feel the need for so many new experiences may simply be that we are so bad at absorbing the ones we have had," according to The School of Life.
Full Story: CNN (4/22) 
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The Water Cooler
The US Air Force knows it might not have all the firepower it needs to defend its satellites from cyberattacks, so it is inviting hackers to bring it on. The hope is that hackers will be able to identify weaknesses and help the Air Force enhance its cyber defenses.
Full Story: TechCrunch (tiered subscription model) (4/22) 
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