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In a Hybrid World, Your Tech Defines Employee Experience One of the big questions many leaders are facing now is: how can we meaningfully communicate, collaborate, and connect in a hybrid (or remote) environment? As companies compete for talent and adapt to new ways of working, the technology they use has become the dominant feature of the employee experience — a place where many companies are falling short. Employers should start by asking employees if they have the right tools and technology to do their jobs, especially in a hybrid or remote work environment. Once employers understand opportunities to improve digital experiences, it’s key they also take action toward closing any gaps, and let employees know that they’re being heard. Finally, it’s critical employers keep pace by giving employees a forum to provide feedback, continually understanding how they are engaging with the tools offered to them and where to make improvements.
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WorkBritain loses title of biggest European stock market to France It's another sign of Britain's shrinking place in the wake of Brexit, the energy crisis, double-digit inflation and Liz Truss' economic turmoil, while France's luxury companies ride a wave of optimism that Chinese shoppers will spend as Covid restrictions ease.
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WorkWorkHow one of historys most beautiful books was used to find fate in the cosmos | Aeon Videos The Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) by the German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer Petrus Apianus was used by the privileged – including the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, who commissioned it, and the Tudor king Henry VIII – to find guidance, knowledge and fate in the stars. Produced over eight years at Apianus’s printing press in Bavaria, it was also extraordinarily beautiful, with hand-coloured illustrations, rotating paper dials and silk threads helping to steer its owner’s astrological forecast. Taking viewers on a guided tour of one of the original copies of the Astronomicum Caesareum, this short from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City explores the book’s elegance, intricacy and function. Through this, the video conveys the prevalence of astrology in the 16th century, and how the book emerged in an uncertain world in which long-held beliefs – including geocentrism – were being upended.
There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo
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WorkLessons in corporate governance from the Jesuits | Aeon Essays A worldwide gathering of Jesuits at a Thanksgiving Mass at the Church of Jesus in Rome, Italy in 2016. Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty
A worldwide gathering of Jesuits at a Thanksgiving Mass at the Church of Jesus in Rome, Italy in 2016. Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty
As corporations struggle to survive in a more uncertain world, they should look to the success of the Society of Jesus
Work | � | | WorkKurdish militants deny Turkish claims they carried out Istanbul attack “Because of the economy, the risk of unemployment – we have to come to work. It’s dangerous, there are usually thousands of people in the street here,” said Özcan Tekinalp, on a break from work at a restaurant on the avenue. “Today is empty compared to most days. But we have to work. I feel unsafe, but this is my work – I have to come to work,” he said. Work | � | | WorkWork | � | | WorkWork | � | | WorkWorkYes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow but what does each one mean exactly? | Aeon Videos You’ve probably heard that there are dozens of Inuit names for snow, but what do they each mean, and what purpose do they each serve? In this short documentary, the Inuk filmmaker Rebecca Thomassie from the remote village of Kangirsuk in the far north of Quebec in Canada learns many of these terms from a local elder, Tommy Kudlak, so that she might pass them along to her three-year-old daughter. As Thomassie and Kudlak travel by snowmobile through the pristine white landscape, he teaches teaches her words describing snow that’s ideal for building igloos or shelters, snow that’s good for drinking, and more. Produced by Wapikoni Mobile, a nonprofit organisation that helps Indigenous filmmakers craft films that reflect their cultures, issues and rights, Thomassie’s short makes for a charming and fascinating window into Inuit cultural knowledge.
There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo
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The Titeca psychiatric hospital in Brussels, Belgium, 14 April 2020. Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters
Evidence is growing that mental illness is more than dysfunction, with enormous implications for treatment
WorkWhat did the Russians dig up when they dug trenches in Chernobyl? | Aeon Essays An abandoned Russian trench near a military post in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, 13 September 2022. Photo by Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty
An abandoned Russian trench near a military post in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, 13 September 2022. Photo by Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty
Disturbing and inhaling radioactive dust, in their haste Russian soldiers unburied the wrecked, undead Earth itself
WorkFederal appeals court blocks Biden student debt relief program nationwide \"Whatever the eventual outcome of this case, it will affect the finances of millions of Americans with student loan debt as well as those Americans who pay taxes to finance the government and indeed everyone who is affected by such far-reaching fiscal decisions,\" the panel said in its ruling. WorkWorkWorkHow Percy Shelley invented free love in 1792 | Aeon Essays Percy Shelley thought romantic love freed men and women from the strictures of monogamy, but did it free them equally?
is professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He is the author of David Hume's Political Theory (2007) and The Ethics of Sex: An Introduction (2022).
In the notes for his poem Queen Mab (1813), Percy Shelley declares that ‘love is free’. This was the creed he would follow when it came to his own intimate relationships: he rejected monogamy, and tried to convince the women in his life to do the same. Not many people today would be shocked by this. Most living in Western countries have sex before they get married, and a YouGov survey in 2020 of adults in the United States found that, of those who are in a relationship, more than a quarter are non-monogamous. But free love – by which I mean the idea that both men and women should be allowed to have sex outside of marriage, and to carry on multiple relationships at once, without judgment or persecution – was not always with us. It had to be invented. And we can say quite precisely when this happened.
WorkWorkThe revolutionary artist who propelled the Black Panther movement with imagery | Aeon Videos Growing up Black in an era of social upheaval and tumult, Emory Douglas was on the verge of spending his young adulthood in penal institutions until he took up printmaking at a juvenile rehabilitation facility in California. In 1960, he began studying graphic design at City College of San Francisco. Soon, a serendipitous meeting of time, place, talent and revolutionary spirit would lead to Douglas being named the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party. From 1967 to the Party’s dissolution in the early 1980s, Douglas designed the art that came to define the Black Panthers and their iconography, including their newspaper, whose circulation peaked at 400,000. Interspersed with images of Douglas’s provocative art, this short documentary from the New York-based production studio Dress Code features Douglas reflecting on his life, and how it intersected with and propelled the Black Panther Party’s mission to fight back against institutional racism.
WorkOne woman prepares for the risky solitude of Georgia OKeeffes American West | Aeon Videos In the popular imagination, the American West is at once a place of peril, solitude and liberation – a vision most famously expressed in Hollywood westerns. It’s also a place of immense natural beauty, as reflected in Georgia O’Keeffe’s famed renderings of the New Mexico landscape. Both of these visions of the West intermingle in the US filmmaker Courtney Stephens’s film Ida Western Exile.
The experimental work plays out in a series of recorded phone calls in which Stephens nervously enquires about issues – from the amount of canned tuna one can eat without subjecting themselves to mercury poisoning, to the availability of something called a ‘zombie killer machete’ – that reflect her intention to spend some time alone, away from society. And her chosen destination seems to be the American West, as implied by a series of shots of its extraordinary, red-tinted and rocky landscapes, which are at times overlayed with the O’Keeffe paintings inspired by them. Through this framework, Stephens builds an idiosyncratic meditation on how, in her words, ‘emancipation is curiously coupled with risk’ – a truth that tends to be especially inescapable for women.
WorkWorkFrom sheep to sea an ode to the iconic sweater that warms Cornish sailors | Aeon Videos Famed for its indigo shade of the ocean and its place-specific knit pattern, the iconic sweater known as ‘the gansey’ has been worn by Cornish sailors on seaward journeys since the 18th century. In the short film Cast Out With Love, based on a poem of the same name, the UK-based filmmaker Greg Dennis takes viewers through the crafting process, from sheep-shearing to dying to knitting, capturing traditional techniques that have deep cultural, coastal roots. The striking visuals are accompanied by an ethereal sea shanty and poetic musings on the gansey’s qualities and place in Cornish lore. Through his own craftsmanship, Dennis highlights not only the expertise and engineering that goes into each hand-knit sweater, but also the heart and soul.
There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo
WorkGive and take: how gift-giving forges society, and ourselves | Aeon Essays Sister Gabriel giving bread to a person with leprosy; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1963. Photo by Thomas Hoepker/Magnum
Sister Gabriel giving bread to a person with leprosy; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1963. Photo by Thomas Hoepker/Magnum
The gifts we exchange are both generous and yet fraught with social rules and obligations. Marcel Mauss explained why
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