Ok, der Wortwitz, mit dem #Beiersdorf gerade in #Hamburg seinen neuen Campus bewirbt, ist echt unterirdisch, aber dass und wie damit geworben wird, finde ich spannend.

Hier kann man eine virtuelle Tour machen und etwas über das Konzept #DynamicWork mit Home Zone, Team Neighbourhood und Common Space lernen:

https://campus.beiersdorf.com/?_ga=2.239462851.1382137021.1694511614-751892437.1694511614#/

Ich geh es mir auf jeden Fall mal anschauen, allein schon, weil mein Cousin das Lichtkonzept entworfen hat 😏.

#Workplace #OfficeCulture

#dev Weekly Roundup (Sep 4): 🔥Hot Topics🔥 in #workplace, #sharepoint, and #powerplatform https://dev.to/jaloplo/weekly-roundup-sep-4-hot-topics-in-workplace-sharepoint-and-powerplatform-g81

Further research in today’s Times highlighting the issues of #mentalhealth and the #workplace. The result of huge #NHS waiting lists for #counselling and the impact of poor #worklifebalance - which clients discuss with me every day - is felt constantly in workplaces and in schools, colleges and universities. We need access to counselling for all within hours or days, not weeks or months.

#StopOverworking #beforeavacation and #afteravacation
#workplace #productivity #nostress #relax #enjoy #beorganized
Source : #HarvardBusinessReview
https://hbr.org/2023/09/stop-overworking-after-vacation?ab=hero-subleft-3

There are people who wish to create and there are people who wish to control. Currently organizations have and need both types of people. Control is needed when separate groups of people are creating something together. Control *should* harmonize the workflow (YMMV).

Since artificial intelligence is going to take over anyway, we should start by creating an artificial intelligence that is designed to manage organizations.

It can't be any worse than the current situation.

#workplace #management #CEO #AI

"I think the biggest wool pulled over everyone's eyes by #rightwing #politicians is that liking #history and tradition by definition makes you socially conservative, because the left agenda is to destroy your culture and absorb you into some kind of beige multiculturalism that really just means no culture at all.
You'll see a lot of #people gobbling that up who think being American means owning a pick-up truck while not knowing what a dulcimer is, because they keep voting for people who throttle their own #education system, but likewise a bunch of left wing people who just grew up watching anyone into history with mistrust because this whole broad, general interest has been portrayed as people wanking over how great #society was in the 1940's, which in itself is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Now broadly speaking you can define culture and cultures in two ways, stuff that's been forged over thousands of years and resembles fancy arts and craft, and things like recounting important battles or what rich people call "#workplace culture", stuff that never affected ordinary people so much as was inflicted upon them and will never be looked upon fondly by anyone who lived through it.
You might notice that the first part is generally what people think of as culture and the second one just shit that happened.

Politicians will try and make you think that it's all one big lump but really it's just #political maneuvering. Most of these boring assholes don't know the first thing about their own culture, and they know most people don't either, they're just pretending European culture is white privileges and glorifying some long-dead assholes to give it all an air of sainthood, when really European culture, much like everywhere else, is tasty dishes and silly hats.
I don't think the left is against tasty dishes and silly hats."

https://www.tumblr.com/thelearnedwobbly/727545390331756544?source=share

Since it's Labor Day, it's the perfect time to highlight how unions have fundamentally shaped the modern #workplace.

Here are just five monumental changes we owe to #union advocacy:

1. #Weekends
2. 40-hr #work weeks
3. #OSHA, ensuring safer working conditions.
4. Benefits like health ins, retirement pensions, and unemployment support.
5. #Childlabor laws. (It's startling to realize we needed #legislation to prevent #employers from exploiting children.)

#laborday #unionize #laborlaws #policy

#UK #AI #Workplace #AIBias: "We can’t let existential risks blind us to the challenges we face today,” says Gina Neff, a tech expert at the University of Cambridge and co-chair of a new TUC taskforce on artificial intelligence in the workplace. “Those challenges are real, and they’re faced by all of us.”

Rishi Sunak is hosting a global AI safety summit in November, amid hair-raising concerns raised by tech gurus – some of whom have even warned the technology could destroy humanity.

Sunak, a Stanford graduate, is known at Westminster as a wannabe West Coast tech bro, with his branded hoodies and Palm Angels sliders, and has picked up on the “existential” threats highlighted by some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley.

Neff welcomes the prime minister’s decision to call the summit. But today, without a hoodie in sight, she has come together with two fellow female tech experts – Dee Masters, an employment barrister, and the TUC campaigner Mary Towers – to discuss a more immediate, albeit less apocalyptic, threat from AI: the risk to workers’ rights."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/03/tuc-taskforce-examine-ai-threat-workers-rights

How #Humans Play a Vital Role In An #AI.-Powered #Workplace
https://observer.com/2023/08/ai-workplace-human-role/

Olga is in deep shit.

#AI #Workplace

https://twitter.com/i/status/1697204841813070261

White House announces plan to guarantee overtime pay for millions https://politicaliq.com/2023/08/30/white-house-announces-plan-to-guarantee-overtime-pay-for-millions/ #Overtime #Workers #Salary #Biden #LaborDept #workplace #politicaliq #news #politics

I love the concept of #transferable #skills! Who would have thought to apply #improv techniques to improving #workplace #communications? These folks have! It's a great read with #practical ideas.
https://technical.ly/professional-development/improv-workplace-lessons-unscripted-project/

While DEI is advocated in the #workplace, its roots must also be firmly planted in #education. Deep-seated biases, often formed early, can become almost immutable if not addressed young.
Research shows exposure to diverse perspectives, not only shape attitudes, behaviors, & biases in adulthood but also foster more tolerant & open-minded attitudes when inclusivity is taught from a young age.
#DEI in the workplace is good, but the true impact starts in #childhood
#diversity #equity #inclusion

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer. ~ Ambrose Bierce

#Workplace #ClassWar

#DOJ is suing #SpaceX for years of #workplace #discrimination
https://www.popsci.com/technology/doj-spacex-work-discrimination/

New paper published!
In 'The challenges of hybrid work: an architectural sociology perspective', we - my wonderful colleagues Matt Thomas, Rosica Pachilova and I - scan the emerging literature since 2020 and compare it to a small sample of participants with lived experience of hybrid work.

#architecture #layout #HybridWork #workplace #WorkplaceResearch #sociology
@sociology

More info in the thread... 🧵

Available #OpenAccess here:
https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.350

When #sexism & #ageism intersect....

'Any age can be viewed as “the wrong age” for a woman, allowing her capacity to be questioned and her fitness for leadership challenged'!

Here are some tips from the HBR on avoiding these tendencies in the #workplace.

And it not rocket science:

Recognise the problem(s);

Tackle 'lookism';

Focus on skills & ability;

Collaborate across age cohorts so that the criticism that young(er) #women lack experience can be neutered

https://hbr.org/2023/06/women-in-leadership-face-ageism-at-every-age

#Workplace #Violence: Protecting #Retail #Workers
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/08/22/workplace-violence-protections/

@JB611 This is so true Josie. People often talk about young people being 'digital natives' because they grew up with tech, but there are often huge gaps in their skillsets especially with essential digital skills #EDS for the #workplace.

In my #DigitalInclusion work I have often heard that many young people don't know how to add an attachment to an email. That's hugely problematic because attaching a CV/resume and covering letter is one of our key routes to employment.

Pink News: Stonewall shuts down claim it ‘purged’ government departments from top 100 employers list https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/stonewall-telegraph-top-100-employers-list/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #ConservativeParty #Stonewall #workplace #Business #Politics #News #UK