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Open competition launched to find design team for new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki

Workplace Insight

The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design, Real Estate Company ADM, the City of Helsinki and SAFA the Finnish Association of Architects have launched an international, open design competition to find a design team for a new 10,050 sq m (GFA) museum building in Helsinki’s South Harbour.

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A just in time lesson about office design

Workplace Insight

A 1994 piece in The New York Times summed up the general response of the media, both to the new offices and the new era they embodied: “There are no assigned desks. Instead, Chiat and Pesce have created the architectural equivalent of a brainstorm: 29,000 boisterous, loosely organized square feet, bursting with color, form and wit.

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What ever happened to The Great Resignation?

Workplace Insight

One of a succession of workplace trends that flare up on social media, then are gone as quickly as they arrived, like tears in rain. Nothing was so trivial that it wouldn’t lead to half of a firm’s workforce flouncing out in a huff And then we stopped talking about it. Just as true for The Great Resignation as it was for quiet quitting.

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The Great Relearning about the Great Office Problem

Workplace Insight

That includes an architectural practice who came up with the idea earlier this year and whose name escapes me. He might have had a more sympathetic reception if he’d introduced sleep pods of the sort that were lauded by some Musk-critical media outlets when Google introduced them a few years ago.

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We All Need a Little Nudge Now and Then

HR Bartender

In the best-selling book “ Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ”, authors Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein define a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.”

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What Are #HR Analysts and Why Should You Pay Attention To Them

HR Bartender

It is not only important to have experience understanding the complexities of the architecture behind HR technologies, it is also important to have end-user experience in both buying and implementing technology as well as running HR. In the human capital management (HCM) industry, we’re starting to see a shift in the analyst role.

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5 apps for HR Management that make you instantly productive

HR Digest

Uber Conference has an excellent Web client-based architecture where the HR can log in on the website, call any number, and stay connected. One can also share multiple documents, set up the customized music for the company, simultaneously share screens as well as check out the social media profile of the people connected on the call.