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Neuroscience News: Multitasking Is Many Skills, Not One

Posted on June 5, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Multitasking Is Many Skills, Not One Featured Neuroscience Psychology ·June 5, 2025 Summary: A new study reveals that multitasking isn’t a single, universal skill, but a combination of broad cognitive abilities and task-specific skills. Researchers tested 224 participants across nine different … Continue reading →

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RTE Investigates. What will 2025 mean for remote working? Comment: Interesting but what happens to offices and the communities that supported them. Brussels have already decided to give over 23 corporate buildings to be converted to apartments so people can live local … It will mean bigger apartments, with storage for bikes and balconies. Ireland has a large number of new and being built office developments, let’s hope it does not bode what the 80’s did ie nobody interested in office space and pension funds losing out. We may await U.S. DOGE and it may be high scale “firing” of surplus to requirement staff, letting them return to the old version of “sole trader”.

Posted on January 5, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

What will 2025 mean for remote working? Video on RTE investigates. By Brian O’Donovan Work & Technology Correspondent Big companies such as Amazon, Dell and IBM have told their remote workers in recent months that they need to start returning to … Continue reading →

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The Observer: The flow state: the science of the elusive creative mindset that can improve your life

Posted on September 27, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Support the Guardian The Observer Psychology  This article is more than 2 months old The flow state: the science of the elusive creative mindset that can improve your life This article is more than 2 months old Scientists have long known … Continue reading →

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Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge. Chance Encounters: What’s at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions. “What’s the role of the office in an increasingly virtual world?” —- “How can organizations spark collaboration among people who prefer to isolate? Andy Wu and Maria Roche discuss the value of bringing people together—and why that’s still so hard to do.

Posted on July 11, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Business Research for Business Leaders Research & Ideas Chance Encounters: What’s at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions 09 Jul 2024| by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin What’s the role of the office in an increasingly virtual world? How can organizations … Continue reading →

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Less work for the same pay won’t fly – but here’s a four-day week that might. Source: The Guardian

Posted on April 29, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Print subscriptions Support the Guardian Fund independent journalism with €10 per month Support us The four-day workweek is an idea that could do with a little rebranding. Photograph: Kwangmoozaa/Getty Images/iStockphoto US small business Less work for the same pay won’t … Continue reading →

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