If there was some new workplace seminar that promised a way workers can be happier, healthier, and more productive simply by making one change, you would think it was a joke. But if it also said it can make the business more environmentally friendly, then you would for sure think it was a scam. The […]
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Much of the time our minds can be lost in fantasising, imagining, dwelling on the past, pondering about the future, or just generally wandering in and out of all sorts of crazy ideas and desires. This endless mental activity is often harmless — even advantageous to the creative mind. But when we become overworked and […]
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Most people in recent history have spent their working lives in small, closed-off spaces. And it was these small, closed spaces that lead architects like Frank Lloyd Wright to come up with such masterpieces of workplaces as the Johnson Wax Headquarters. The Johnson Wax offices were abundant with space, natural light, and ingenious design. They […]
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Is it possible to do your bit for the environment without impacting the success and growth of your business? Amazon, with its aim to be carbon neutral by 2040, thinks it is. Microsoft, with its pledge to become “carbon negative” by 2030, and undo all its negative impact since it was founded by 2050, certainly […]
With today’s fleeting preferences and rapidly changing markets, it’s difficult to how to know which idea you should invest your time and money in and which you should forget forever. This can make it seem like pursuing a new business idea isn’t worth effort. That sticking to your traditional revenue stream or 9-5 job is […]
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Work is increasingly seeping beyond the office and factory walls and into other areas of our lives. The commute, the holiday you worked so hard to afford, dinner with your partner, bathrooms — no place is safe from becoming a place of work. The advantages of this societal shift are endless — more autonomy over […]
Until the industrial revolution, humans were preoccupied mostly with survival as they fought for space, food, against illness and died young. The motivation in life was pretty clear — do what it takes to keep me alive/fed/clothed another day, week, and month. The rise of productionised work swapped the fear of dying with the fear […]
You would think more choice would equal more freedom. That an abundance of yoga studies would mean you’d be going every day. Or more ways to stay in touch with your friends and relatives would lead to closer, more loving relationships. But more choice often leads not to more freedom, but more restriction. Take […]
On the internet, everything we do is stored, indexed, mined, and crunched: Our likes, our fears, our friends, the places we go, status updates, our photos, what we chat about, the contents of our email, the stuff we buy, and how we think. It’s endlessly pervasive and mostly “stolen” via the “small print”. We never […]
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It seems silly to even question that more isn’t always a good thing. Head down the high street or watch an episode of your favourite drama and you will immediately see that more of everything — money, pleasure, babies, food — is the answer to all of life’s problems. But alas, more is not always […]
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Technology is now involved in everything from getting you out of bed in the morning and informing you of news to managing your money and running the government. The inevitable result is, if you’re one of the millions who work in tech, you’re not just affecting digits and cold hard machines but real people’s lives. […]
Few would contest that having freedom in your job is a good thing. And most would also agree that freedom is being able to work from wherever you choose. So ipso facto, hotdesking must be as good as if not a better idea than even that mindfulness program your managers keep trying to get you […]
After arriving about six hours early for a flight and with my kindle already dead, I found myself doing something I’d never do out in the outside world: slowly and curiously browsing the shelves of WHSmith. If it wasn’t strange enough to be in an airport without frantically rushing through it, picking up a random […]
What happens when companies no longer favour candidates adorned with the accolades of formal education over the wit and abundance of independent consultants, freelancers, and contractors? The answer to such a question could potentially upend our whole education system, causing universities to go bankrupt and schools to permanently close their doors. It sounds catastrophic, and yet […]
The way we organise the modern workplace seems entirely backwards when compared to the life of the modern worker. 24/7 connectivity, cheap/free international video calling, hours spent using mobile devices; the modern worker is able to control almost every aspect of their life while sitting at home or on the tube and using a tablet […]
Whether it’s informing a purchase, studying for an exam, or deciding where to go on holiday, the search engine is the place people go when they want their questions answered. Google calls these little moments of action the “I-want-to-know”, “I-want-to-go”, “I-want-to-do”, and “I-want-to-buy moments”. According to its data, we have thousands of them every day. […]
Despite more people than ever accessing the web from mobile, many businesses mobile sites are still lagging way behind their desktop counterparts. This does, of course, affect the number of people that visit your site. But even when the traffic is flowing steadily, as a new report has shown, mobile conversion rates can still be […]
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Ads are everywhere. So much so that it’s questionable if it’s worth competing against them all. But if one thing’s for sure, advertising is here to stay. It’s the “more is better” principle that is on its way out. Marketing has always trodden a fine line between offering something useful and being downright intrusive. With […]
Ever since Pokemon Go, AR has been slowly but surely taking over social media. Everyone wants a piece of its promise, with some placing bigger bets on it than others as the destined future of the web. On the surface, AR is all about novelty filters and amusing designs. But at the same time, the […]
For a long time, the content part of content marketing has been synonymous with the written word. Blogs, sales pages, web copy, etc. More recently, it’s come to be associated more with interactive media and video. Things like webinars, live streaming, infographics, and Instagram Stories. Soon, this is going to change again to reflect the […]
