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Return to Xanadu: The Joy of Co-working

Nancy A. Shenker | Posted 06.06.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Cooperatives, Small Business, Workplace, 1980s, Xanadu, Co-Working, University of Michigan, Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Small Business News and Trends, Workplace Flexibility, Open-Space, Hippies, Interns, Canada Business News
Nancy A. Shenker

About 40 years ago, I lived in a co-op (cooperative student housing) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. My home was aptly called Xanadu, a fo...

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No More Horrible Bosses - Reinventing the Office Environment

Sheldon Dyck | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Banking, Work-Life Balance, Atb, Workplace Flexibility, Workplace, Work Environment, Work Life Balance, Canada Alberta News
Sheldon Dyck

Thankfully most of us will never experience being threatened with death or blackmailed by our bosses. However, many of us could relate to Kevin Spacey's one beady eye on the clock and another on a closed-circuit video revealing precisely when his employees arrived at work through the company parking garage. Spacey's David Harken was driven not only by his addictions -- to power, humiliation, $1,400 suits and early-morning highballs -- but also by a century-old workplace myth: you have to physically watch the people you lead to determine whether they're being productive.

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How to Get Millennials Excited About Coming to Work

Mary Donohue | Posted 05.05.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Bad Bosses, Workplace, Yahoo CEO, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Millennials, Yahoo!, Millennial Generation, Workplace Flexibility, Workplace Culture, How to Feel Good, Canada Business News
Mary Donohue

The recent dust-up over working from home or working at work has brought a few issues to the forefront. Primarily, that dealing with a young, mobile and educated workforce is hard. When millennials work for you, life is going to be very different: they are not their father's workforce.

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