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    Using bridging tools to improve workplace productivity and retention

    Joan Blades
    March 24, 2023
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    Joan Blades is Co-Founder ofLivingRoomConversations.org, MomsRising.org andMoveOn.org.

    Covid upended workplace cultures around the world. For organizations that could allow employees to work remotely, work practice shifted with incredible speed. Now that social distancing is no longer required, many offices are returning to pre-pandemic in person expectations while some have decided to let go of their office space and yet other organizations have chosen a hybrid model that has employees in the office some of the time but also working remotely.

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    Joan Blades is Co-Founder ofLivingRoomConversations.org, MomsRising.org andMoveOn.org.

    A Question of Respect: Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation was published earlier this year. The need to address toxic popular and political culture is being recognized by people across the political spectrum. Ed Goeas and Celinda Lake are pollsters and strategists that have worked together to create joint Battleground Polls for more than thirty years. Ed is a Republican and Celinda is a Democrat.

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