According to new research, a combination of collaboration and isolation are best when working on a project. In the study, Boston-based researchers — Harvard Business School associate professor Ethan Bernstein, Boston University business professor Jesse Shore and Northeastern University professor David Lazer — analyzed three groups to see how well each completed a complex task, […]
For the fourth year, Adobe surveyed 1,000 office workers about their email habits and feelings about the communication vehicle. According to an Aug. 28 Associations Now article, the survey found: People are more likely to read work email (39% said they read all of work emails) versus personal emails (17% said they read them all). […]
Gen Z — those born between 1995 and 2012 — will account for 40% of all consumers by 2020, according to a May 15 article on Inc. If you haven’t already taken them into account when designing your marketing plans, clearly, you should. To gain insight into this generation, Stamford, Connecticut-based MNI Targeted Media Inc. surveyed […]
For eight weeks last spring, an Auckland, New Zealand, company tried an experiment: It allowed employees to work four days a week but get paid for five. The result was encouragingly positive. Employees at Perpetual Guardian, a trust and estate planning firm, got the same amount of work done (if not more) in the shorter […]
