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Business Briefing: are our standards dropping in the workplace?

  • Written by Jenni Henderson, Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation
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Our workplaces are becoming less formal as the decor resembles what we have at home, companies relax dress codes, and technology makes it possible to work from anywhere.

But the old formality had some advantages, says Libby Sander from Bond University. For example,...

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