Over 66% of households own a pet according to the American Pet Products Association, with Millennials taking the largest share of pet ownership at 33%. Compare that to Team Stage data which states that millennials make up 35% (or 1/3) of the current workforce, which means that a good portion of the workforce probably consider themselves to be pet parents.
Since the pandemic, a lot of the benefits of home pet ownership have come to light, and for the workplace the same applies. A few different studies have explored what kind of effect having an office pet (or a few) has had on workers, with a multitude of positive results. Here are the 3 most surprising ins (Read More)
Working from home… Sounds like a dream, right? I never really considered it an option because I spent twenty years in construction management which meant being on the jobsite every day. Fifty, sixty, and even seventy hour work weeks in places all over the south. Large cities like Birmingham, and Atlanta or vacation destinations like Pensacola, Florida. All the way to places you don’t hear about until they spring up on you like Newnan, Georgia or Pascagoula, Mississippi. Then there are places that I’ve been that I still have nightmares about like Kemper County, Mississippi. All places that required daily attendance and long hours at a desk in your offic (Read More)
Whether you began working from home pre-2020, were forced to mid-pandemic or have just gotten your first WFH gig (congrats) chances are that there are at least 5 difficulties that you have (or will) run into.
This isn't to scare you off or make you second-guess your decision but when you begin working from home, everyone tends to face some of the same problems. How much of an issue they actually are really depends on the individual.
Irrespective of which from this list you are rocking and which you are tanking on, we're going to go through the 5 most common challenges of working from home and what to do about them.
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According to Arch2o multifunctional, multiuse and multipurpose spaces are defined as: a proper integration of several functions.
In essence, taking a space and using it for more than one purpose. While everyone has a room in their house or office which has a dedicated name to make the use apparent, creating a multiuse room is not necessarily about changing the function of that space, but designing it in a way that opens it up seamlessly to another possibility of use.
So, if conventionally a room has a particular use, why would it be important or even necessary to create a multifunctional space?
Well, it's no surprise that in the past decade, at least, (Read More)
