"What’s even better is that this almost non-existent gender gap in earnings also extends to the diversity of professions women can find in DC. In the same study, the BLS noted that nearly half of the city’s labor force in medicine, education, accounting, hospitality, and banking were all filled by women. Of course, this doesn’t mean that business conditions in the city only favor those companies that have a lot of female employees. Meanwhile, the World Bank discovered in 2012 that most women seek a balance between their professional and personal lives, particularly if they intend to raise a family at some point. Upwardly mobile female entrepreneurs, in particular, need the kinds of flexible working arrangements that allow them to complete their tasks even outside their home offices. This is where a virtual office space in Washington, DC can come in handy."
http://www.metroffice.com/2013/11/washington-dc-office-space-solutions-for-the-upwardly-mobile-woman/Sunday, December 8, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Why Open Plan No Longer Works for Office Space in Washington, D.C.
Open-plan offices used to be the quintessential workplace in the pre and post-war periods with their free-flowing arrangement of desks and appliances. However, this office is proving less effective today, reports Jonathan Brown of The Independent. New research shows that the absence of barriers in the office was affecting workers' ability to focus on the job at hand. This poses a risk for jobs that need the utmost focus: programming, accounting, and clerical among others. Open-plan offices arrange desks and work areas in random positions, allowing for quick access just in case someone needs help with something. While some open-plan offices use partitions, they don't use them as much as other types of offices. One of the most notable examples of open-plan offices is the Pentagon, which adopted it for clerical work shortly after its construction. The typical Washington, D.C. office space can be an open-plan office, given that the city houses duties that require constant contact.
http://www.metroffice.com/2013/09/why-open-plan-no-longer-works-for-office-space-in-washington-d-c/