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Why Productivity Paranoia is the Real Obstacle to Remote Work

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Even before Covid, peer-reviewed research demonstrated that remote work improved productivity. Do bosses trust employees to be productive when working remotely? A recent Microsoft study found that 49 percent of managers of hybrid workers “struggle to trust employees to do their best work.” Not at all.

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Internationalisation and Women Inclusion in Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises

Impact Hub

In a Peer-Learning Partnership (PLP), Impact Hub is bringing together a consortium of 23 leading impact-focused organizations from 11 countries. Kick-off of the Peer-Learning Partnership. The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is one that is made up of inclusive and impact-focused organizations. This comes with various challenges.

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Battery giant Anker backs programmable robot maker Keyi

TechCrunch

It also didn’t answer a question about potential collaborations between Keyi and itself. And like its peers, Keyi is enjoying a growing demand for its educational robots. The market is teeming with products from hardcore robotics scientists and their copycats. Keyi’s new funding comes at a time when inflation in the U.S.

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What Plinko Can Tell Us About Where to Post

This is going to be BIG.

In some ways it feels like a company that has gone partially remote—where you still get certain types of interaction on “office days” that you can’t get at home, but it’s definitely not what it was. You shouldn’t post any content that you wouldn’t create if you knew no one would see it. I think of tweets like I think of Dad jokes.

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Would you commit to an office lease today?

Berkonomics

With audio and video conferencing and all the tools for communication and collaboration available today, each of these four new employees felt empowered, connected and enthused to work from home for the first time. The extra burden of travel cost and time was theirs to bear without extra compensation compared to their peers.

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Massachusetts startup OPT Industries is perfecting a 3D-printed nasal swab for COVID-19 tests

TechCrunch

These tests were performed at Boston University Medical Center, but the results were not published in a peer-reviewed journal (though Ou has more studies that are striving for this). In 2020 and 2021, we all became well-acquainted with nasal swabs. A May 2020 survey of 118 labs in the U.S. Image: OPT Industries.

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Solutions to the Internationalisation and Women Inclusion in Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises

Impact Hub

We collaborate in a Peer-Learning Partnership (PLP) to support these organisations to develop and scale internationally, particularly developing a deeper understanding of how better to support women-led impact businesses. Kick-off of the Peer-Learning Partnership. Screenshot of the kick-off workshop.