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Blended Reality — Read the Report! | The Institute For The Future

  • We are creating a new kind of reality, one in which physical and digital environments, media, and interactions are woven together throughout our daily lives. In this world, the virtual and the physical are seamlessly integrated. Cyberspace is not a destination; rather, it is a layer tightly integrated into the world around us.
  • In our research for the Blended Reality work, we conducted ethnographic interviews with people who are pioneering new ways of living in the blended reality world. They are superstructing their realities and themselves in order to adapt to a changing ecosystem.
21 Oct 09

Why don't more dads work part-time? | Life and style | The Guardian

  • Tom, 37, is one of those unreconstructed fathers whose world-view flies in the face of today's report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) which suggests the majority of working fathers are unhappy with their work-life balance. The Fathers, Family and Work report found that that 62% of fathers thought that dads should spend more time caring for their children.
  • But maybe working fathers – and their employers – would benefit from reducing their hours. The EHRC report found that six out of 10 fathers work more than 40 hours a week. Yet a recent survey of American human resources directors by researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah, found that where city [ie local authority] employees had been offered flexitime or part-time contracts, 64% said the new working patterns improved morale, and 41% said they improved productivity.
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Under shared management | Society | The Guardian

  • Shared services has largely been thought of in terms of IT and back-office services, but as the chill wind of cuts begins to blow through local government finance, many local politicians — if not necessarily their senior staff — are likely to take considerable interest in a report out today from the local government improvement and development agency, IDeA, which gives examples of councils that have saved millions by putting joint management arrangements in place.
  • Joint management arrangements involve two or more councils, which remain separate but share a group of senior officers who then work not only on supporting the work of each of the authorities, but also on developing services – either in-house or contracted out – to be delivered to both authorities
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Communities in recession: Broad Green, Swindon | Society | guardian.co.uk

  • Shirley works across the community, training people in broadcasting skills so they can make their own programmes.
  • It is the lack of such new skills and training that is a major concern for Swindon, which lags behind the rest of the UK in terms of its residents' qualifications.
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