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Ideally

Alan Weiss

The Dunkin’ people felt as if they had invaded someone’s living room, and the Starbucks people were repelled by the hard seats and cheap surfaces. It’s why those coffee shops and talk shows do so well. These are tribes, set in their ways and preferences. They are all singing to the choir.

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The Wider Implications of COVID-19: the Changing Nature of Work

Tom Spencer

The virus has not only changed the way we view health policy, but also our way of living and working. The pandemic changed this dynamic with professionals jumping on video calls from make shift offices in living rooms, studies, and bedrooms. This post will explore how the post-COVID-19 world may differ from the one before it.

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Which is best – online or face-to-face training?

The Management Centre

The joy of face-to-face learning We love meeting people, in rooms, in person. People spend a lot of time online – in meetings, commuting, producing work and even shopping or entertaining themselves. There are also built in accessibility options that participants can activate themselves – such as live captioning and screen readers.

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How to Create a Comfortable and Productive Home Office

Tom Spencer

Feng Shui , a philosophy of how to arrange living spaces to create balance with the natural world, can be used to organise your home to represent different areas of your life. When desk shopping , keep in mind that this key piece of office furniture should reflect what you plan to get out of your career. Find Balance and Stay Focused.

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Three Slightly Ranty Thoughts on “Back” to Normal

Johanna Rothman

See the Pittsburgh ice cream shop story.) The employees no longer fret about whether they can piece together enough hours to make a real living. We have short-sighted managers who live the myth that lower wages mean you get less expensive products. No, you have to give up your meeting room for the next meeting.

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NRF 2021: Trends that Retailers Bet will Outlast the Pandemic

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Survive, Sustain, Strive Prior to the pandemic, attempts to fuse online and in-store shopping into a seamless experience were far from uniform. In-store shopping was a physical and social experience whereas online shopping was largely transactional. Suddenly, shopping in a physical space became very transactional,” he said. “No

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How Retail Can Thrive in a World Without Stores

Harvard Business

Historically, shopping has been a sensory experience. That traditional “personal touch” shopping experience is hard to replicate online. Here’s how some brands are already doing this: Making the bedroom the new fitting room. Shopping virtually with augmented reality. Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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