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How Planners Maximize the Benefits of Telecommuting

PCMA Convene

Between 2005 and 2014, the number of work-from-home (WFH) employees in the United States grew by 103 percent, according to the research-focused consulting firm Global Workplace Analytics (GWA), which based its assessment on the U.S. “I love my job,” she recalled saying, “but I just can’t do it like this anymore.”.

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Planning for disaster: Best practices and essential terminology

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since 2005 than there were in the previous 23 years combined. In fact, he says, the only widely adopted change he has seen is that meeting planners tend to include a clause in contracts that says they can cancel events because of terrorist acts. There have been more total mass shooting incidents and deaths in the U.S.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

One flex point came in a survey of nonprofit CEOs (“CEO Wish List,” April 2005) in which they ranked meeting planning as second only to executive management in importance to their organization’s mission, but ranked strategic planning ninth in a list of important skills for senior meeting planners. Paper Trails for Miles.

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