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The new workplace : employee alignment in remote-first, office-forward, and hybrid work organizations
The COVID pandemic forced most workers to shift from the work office to the home office. As we navigate this new normal, organizations must decide on their post-pandemic workplace strategy: office-forward, remote-first, or hybrid. Meanwhile, employees have also developed their preference, whether working from home, the office, or a combination of both. This book helps leaders to align their workplace strategy with employee preferences. It helps them to understand the different types of employees they have and how to engage employees whose work preferences may or may not align with that of the organization. Through in-depth interviews with both employees and executives, the authors identify nine distinct employee personas and present findings about the personas' demographics, specific behaviours, attitudes, preferences, and motivations.
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Cell complexes, poset topology and the representation theory of algebras arising in algebraic combinatorics and discrete geometry
In recent years it has been noted that a number of combinatorial structures such as real and complex hyperplane arrangements,
interval greedoids, matroids and oriented matroids have the structure of a finite monoid called a left regular band. Random walks on the
monoid model a number of interesting Markov chains such as the Tsetlin library and riffle shuffle. The representation theory of left
regular bands then comes into play and has had a major influence on both the combinatorics and the probability theory associated to such
structures. In a recent paper, the authors established a close connection between algebraic and combinatorial invariants of a left
regular band by showing that certain homological invariants of the algebra of a left regular band coincide with the cohomology of order
complexes of posets naturally associated to the left regular band.
The purpose of the present monograph is to further develop and
deepen the connection between left regular bands and poset topology. This allows us to compute finite projective resolutions of all
simple modules of unital left regular band algebras over fields and much more. In the process, we are led to define the class of CW left
regular bands as the class of left regular bands whose associated posets are the face posets of regular CW complexes. Most of the
examples that have arisen in the literature belong to this class. A new and important class of examples is a left regular band structure
on the face poset of a CAT(0) cube complex. Also, the recently introduced notion of a COM (complex of oriented matroids or conditional
oriented matroid) fits nicely into our setting and includes CAT(0) cube complexes and certain more general CAT(0) zonotopal complexes. A
fairly complete picture of the representation theory for CW left regular bands is obtained.
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THE RISE AND NATURE OF ALTERNATIVE WORK ARRANGEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1995–2015
To monitor trends in alternative work arrangements, the authors conducted a version of the Contingent Worker Survey as part of the RAND American Life Panel in late 2015. Their findings point to a rise in the incidence of alternative work arrangements in the US economy from 1995 to 2015. The percentage of workers engaged in alternative work arrangements—defined as temporary help agency workers, on-call workers, contract workers, and independent contractors or freelancers—rose from 10.7% in February 2005 to possibly as high as 15.8% in late 2015. Workers who provide services through online intermediaries, such as Uber or TaskRabbit, accounted for 0.5% of all workers in 2015. Of the workers selling goods or services directly to customers, approximately twice as many reported finding customers through off-line intermediaries than through online intermediaries.
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The Value of Flexible Work
Technology has facilitated new, nontraditional work arrangements, including the ride-sharing company Uber. Uber drivers provide rides anytime they choose. Using data on hourly earnings and driving, we document driver utilization of this real-time flexibility. We propose that the value of flexibility can be measured as deriving from time variation in the drivers’ reservation wage. Measuring time variation in drivers’ reservation wages allows us to estimate the surplus and labor supply implications of Uber relative to alternative, less-flexible work arrangements. Despite other drawbacks to the Uber arrangement, we estimate that Uber drivers earnmore than twice the surplus they would in less-flexible arrangements.
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Partnership patterns and living arrangements of LGBTQ+ identifying US adults: Estimates from a probability-based survey
BACKGROUND: Most national surveys exclude sexual and gender identity (SOGI) measures or do not link them with household rosters and non-coresidential partnership questions, limiting demographic estimates of LGBTQ+ family life. OBJECTIVE: We examine differences in relationship status and living arrangements between LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ identifying US adults. Specifically, we compare the shares of those who live with a spouse, live with an unmarried partner, have a non-coresidential partner, or have no partner. We also assess household size and composition, including living alone, coresidence with children and/or other family, and living with unrelated roommates. METHODS: Data come from the 2021 American Marriage Survey, a probability-based survey of 2,806 US adults recruited through the AmeriSpeak panel of the National Opinion Research Center. RESULTS: LGBTQ+ identifying adults were less likely than non-LGBTQ+ identifying adults to be in a coresidential marital relationship but were more likely to report an unmarried cohabiting partner, a non-coresidential partner, or no partner. They were also more likely to live alone or with unrelated roommates and less likely to live with children. Consequently, LGBTQ+ identifying adults tend to live in smaller households, which may heighten social isolation risk. CONCLUSIONS: Findings underscore the need for national surveys to integrate SOGI questions with detailed measures of relationships and living arrangements to capture diverse family structures and inform policies supporting LGBTQ+ well-being. Conventional surveys often disproportionately undercount LGBTQ+ relationships by excluding non-coresidential partners. CONTRIBUTION: This analysis provides nationally representative estimates of relationship status and household composition, revealing distinct partnership patterns and living arrangements among LGBTQ+ identifying adults compared to non-LGBTQ+ identifying adults.
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Thrive with a hybrid workplace : step-by-step guidance from the experts
\"In the new world of hybrid work, leaders need to ensure that remote work is productive, employees are engaged, and success is guaranteed. Here, leaders and managers will find expert advice on how to achieve the gold standard for work, and workplace, excellence no matter where the work gets done\"-- Provided by publisher.
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On Formality and Combinatorial Formality for Hyperplane Arrangements
A hyperplane arrangement is called formal provided all linear dependencies among the defining forms of the hyperplanes are generated by ones corresponding to intersections of codimension two. The significance of this notion stems from the fact that complex arrangements with aspherical complements are formal. The aim of this note is twofold. While work of Yuzvinsky shows that formality is not combinatorial, in our first main theorem we prove that the combinatorial property of factoredness of arrangements does entail formality. Our second main theorem shows that formality is hereditary, i.e., is passed to restrictions. This is rather counter-intuitive, as in contrast the known sufficient conditions for formality, i.e., asphericity, freeness and factoredness (owed to our first theorem), are not hereditary themselves. We also demonstrate that the stronger property of k-formality, due to Brandt and Terao, is not hereditary.
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