Tag: workplace
Big rise in number of over-70s in the workplace – with the King leading by example
Zoom is expanding its platform to become a one-stop digital workplace
Zoom is expanding its platform to become a one-stop digital workplace
MICK HUME: Sinister Bill that could turn every workplace into a surveillance state
Your workplace Zoom meetings are about to get an OpenAI boost, you lucky things
Q&A: Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn on the challenges of a hybrid workplace
In April, 2021, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced he would let all 75,000 employees work remotely indefinitely, even after the COVID-19 pandemic ended. The company had seen no drop in productivity by allowing employees to work from home and expected to save money by not fully staffing offices. When and how often employees should come into the office would be up to their managers, who abide by a flexible hybrid policy.
But that shift brought technology challenges most companies are by now familiar with: how do you secure networks when the employee’s home is essentially a branch office? How do you create company culture from afar? And, how do you retain employees at a time when IT talent is in historically high demand.
10,000 Dogs are Registered for Workplace Visits at Amazon
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4 ways DEI tools can drive change across the workplace
Over the past few decades, human resources and business leaders have come to understand that greater diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) positively affects their corporate culture, their brand perception, their ability to attract and retain talent, and the performance of the business.
In fact, the justification for diversity and inclusion in terms of business performance is stronger than ever, according to the 2020 McKinsey & Co. report “Diversity wins: How inclusion matters.” The company has been collecting data on corporate diversity and inclusion since 2014 and has noted an increasing disparity between the financial performance of more diverse organizations and that of less diverse companies.