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Remote work can boost innovation, but culture eats it for breakfast
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Remote workers don’t stick to their contracted hours and even (gasp) skip some days completely
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AI ushers in the era of the ‘frontier firm’, Microsoft report claims
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Negative feelings about work continue to grow, especially for managers
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What kind of change leader do you want to be?
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People’s expectations of work have changed forever (and they think office work should pay better than remote work)
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Come fly with me. The new digital issue of IN magazine is here for you
December 20, 2013
Driving home for Christmas? Forget Chris Rea and try Sigur Ros
by Tess Gaze • Comment, Technology
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Six in ten commuters travel by car. This was the finding of a survey conducted by the RAC earlier this month. Inevitably a busier road leads to congestion, and therefore stress. It’s no shock to learn, according to a Sky News report, that almost half of British drivers claim to have been involved in some form, with road rage. In fact, Britain is the shamed ‘winner’ of the highest road rage (Daily Mail), a surprising truth for such a stereotypically polite-prone nation. Road rage is a worrying occurrence – both for stress levels – but also for road safety. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents attributed ‘aggressive driving’ to the deaths of 122 and the serious injury of almost 1,000 in 2011. It goes without saying, that lowering these high-stress experiences for drivers is a necessity.
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