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How Employers Can Support Workplace Mental Health

Entrepreneurs' Organization

However, due to the nature of conditions such as anxiety, addiction, depression and the like, problems can go undetected for lengthy periods of time, even as they damage relationships with family and coworkers. In the workplace, those people are coworkers and the employer. The first step toward healing is facing the problem.

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How to Fill a Building Full of Tech and Startup People

This is going to be BIG.

815 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY - A former turn of the century era bank building that will soon house creative folks. Don't you just hate it when you own an old building made like no one makes buildings anymore in an up and coming area--and you've got no cool startupy/creative/tech tenants in it yet? I know, I know--we've all been there.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. Is your business plan competition a fun thing you do on the side each year, or do you have real programs with fulltime staff dedicated to teaching full stack development and how to incubate real businesses? It says so right on their website.

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Why self-care is important for entrepreneurs

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Signs of burnout include : Lack of creativity. Negative attitudes to coworkers or family. By exercising, practicing mindfulness, taking regular breaks and vacations, focusing on your sleep and developing your support network, you are taking steps to be more productive and excited about your periods of hard work.

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Attract Talent by Creating an Empathetic Company Culture

StartupNation

While it’s true that there is a difference between the way we relate to family and friends and the way we relate to coworkers, we still need to understand each other and be empathetic in order to work and create together. . People are more engaged and more creative when they like their work environment.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community.

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Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success

TechCrunch

In fact, the 2010s were focused on going the other direction, as open offices, on-site perks and coworking spaces sprung up around the idea that in-person community is an essential component of innovation. Just as silos in the development process are detrimental to software quality, so too is a lack of passive collaboration.