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Office refurbishments rise to all time high in London

Workplace Insight

According to the latest London Office Crane Survey from Deloitte, London has seen the highest volume of new office refurbishments since records began in 2005, with 37 new schemes covering 3.2 This is the highest number and volume of refurbishment starts since Deloitte began tracking them across the seven central submarkets in 2005.

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How the rise in urbanization and remote workers will change commuting

Benefit Resource Inc.

A rise in remote workers and denser city populations are also expected to impact how employers approach commuter programs. In addition to keeping up with a more dynamic workforce, emerging payment solutions will allow employers to provide commuting solutions for a growing city population. In 2005, 6.2 of the U.S.

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Is working from home going to be a permanent thing?

Business Management Daily

Supported by technological advances and the desire to better integrate professional and personal obligations, the number of people telecommuting in the United States increased 159% between 2005 and 2017. employers over $30 billion a day in what would have otherwise been lost productivity during office closures due to COVID-19.”.

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FAANGs for the memories: how tech palaces lost their lustre

Workplace Insight

And that 2011 Jobs’ speech is a lesson in oratory and authority back when tech firms, especially those part of what was called the FAANG group of companies: Facebook (main image), Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix were considered the last word in innovative workplace design as well as highly desirable employers. Its signage has been removed.

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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

There could, of course, be only one answer to these inquiries, that the influenza, though a great misfortune, could not by any stretch of imagination be considered as an accident arising out of employment. Those charged with these tasks amplified the messages from experts. WCB of BC, “Future Risks: Issue specific environmental scan” 1998].

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Rendering Aid to an Injured Worker: Potential Liability under the Dual Capacity/Dual Persona Theory

The Workcomp Writer

It is axiomatic that in every American jurisdiction, once a workers’ compensation act has become applicable—either through compulsion or election—it affords the exclusive remedy for the injury by the employee or the employee’s dependents against the employer [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 100.01, et seq. ]. 2023) 2023 Cal.