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Building a healthy, motivated and productive workforce requires considerate, supportive leadership. Yet, while 90% of HR leaders believe a human touch in leadership is crucial to company success, only 29% of employees recognize their employer as a “human leader,” according to Gartner research. Source: 5 Human Leadership Traits

An increasing number of companies today are using artificial intelligence to enhance employee experience, automate processes and reduce human error. The World Economic Forum Future of Jobs report 2020 indicated that 80% of business leaders were speeding up work process automation, with 50% planning to accelerate the automation of repetitive tasks in the workplace. Source: In Today’s Workplace, the Limitations of AI Are Increasingly Human

Whether it’s a pop-up that young singles in your area are looking to meet or a banner highlighting the different solutions to a problem you recently r… Source: Are You Prepared To Enter The OOH World Of Advertising?

The use of collaboration tools has accelerated over the last couple of years to the point where we now have more collaboration platforms than we know what to do with. In some ways, the proliferation of these tools is fantastic, as I can now work from home and collaborate with colleagues all around the world. But I’d already been doing that for decades: I’ve worked from home for almost half my career as part of a globally distributed team or as a manager of remote teams. The modern platforms have made working in this way a lot easier to do, which brings me back to my original question: Just because we can, should we? Source: Just Because You Can Collaborate Doesn’t Mean You Always Should

  The remote work environment has proven to be a positive experience for many employees. In fact, the increased flexibility afforded to remote employees has even led to some choosing to leave full-time employment and seek more independence. The so-called Great Resignation and the legions of people leaving their jobs in search of new ones has further fueled the gig economy. Source: 3 Ways Gig Workers Can Support Your Workforce Strategy

We’ve seen some awesome geeky knives, so it makes sense that we look at geeky cutting boards today. After all, you can’t use those knives (or any knife for that matter) on something as ordinary as a kitchen counter. Here are five geeky cutting boards that must be in everyone’s kitchen. Source: 5 Geeky Cutting Boards You Need in the Kitchen

The role of legacy technologies in the remote and hybrid workplace is often overlooked in the rush to introduce new technologies. One of the most widely used and deployed technologies over the past 20 years has been document management systems. While investment and spending on technologies is largely focused on the cloud or communications and collaboration platforms and apps, we have seen over the years that investment in document management is still substantial. Source: Why Good Document Management Systems Are Still Key to Enterprise Success

Now that the initial effects of pandemic on work are waning, many employees previously hesitant to quit their jobs are now doing so, resulting in what has become known as the Great Resignation. As a result of fewer employees in general and more employees working remotely, companies have attempted to automate as many processes as possible and turned to robotic process automation (RPA). Source: How Robotic Process Automation Improves Employee Experience

Fortune estimated that the company lost almost $100 million in revenue during the outage. As individuals and businesses around the world clamored to understand what went wrong, many began to realize that if one of the largest platforms in the world could go down, the same could happen to their business. Source: The Lessons Remote Work Leaders Should Learn From Facebook’s Service Outage

According to one survey by an IT security company, there has been a 63% average increase in the purchase of employee surveillance software since March 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic average. This is a 24% increase compared to the nine months prior. A recent report from tech media site The Information spotlighted some of the tactics tech giant Google uses to spy on employees. Taking a screenshot or looking up COBRA health insurance costs can put Googlers in the crosshairs of the company’s security team. Source: Alternatives to Investing in Employee Surveillance