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Working From Home Passes Property Costs Onto Workers

The Horizons Tracker

Most of the time these discussions have focused on the enjoyment employees have had from working at home, but research from Harvard reminds us that for many, it has imposed a clear financial cost that should be considered. Cost of living.

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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. Nevertheless, the downside to locating in traditional startup hubs is becoming more apparent in recent years.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

Strategy Driven

Then FDIC Chairman William Seidman expressed concern about the merger of two weak banks, “however, without the merger, both banks were more likely to fail, and they would cost even more [apart] than if they failed together,” Seidman recalled in his memoir Full Faith and Credit 1. Seidman’s concerns were warranted.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts. Pessimists about the costs of climate change ignore such latter effects.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

Frank at Sagapixel told me about a conversation he had with Eric Diaz, a prominent real estate attorney in Philadelphia. But an attorney whose practice is primarily electronic, like bankruptcy, might relocate to an area with lower costs of living and work remotely. Can You Create a Niche? The Fourth P – “Promotion”.

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Three Ways to Say No to a Reference Request

Harvard Business Review

Christopher, a seasoned real estate executive, left his job in early 2013 to move to a competitor’s firm. The option of saying yes and then badmouthing your boss isn’t really an option — that’s a below the belt tactic you should avoid at all costs. So take the high road.