Work life conflict (or imbalance) is an issue for a growing number of my employees.

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To help remedy all this, the firm has created the Thermo Management Institute, which runs courses explaining Thermo's philosophy to a growing number of its 20, 500 employees.

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On the other hand a growing number of companies are deliberately engaging employees in the future of productivity and allowing them to contribute to its definition by bringing into the workplace their own inventive ideas for the use of advanced technologies like social media, augmented reality and gesture technologies.

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