McKensey
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The global beauty industry continued to grow in 2023, but the dynamics driving sector growth are shifting. A new analysis shows some emerging bright spots and how players can compete.
Workplace Insight
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
British and Irish firms are increasing their investment in digital transformation, according to Docusign’s Digital Maturity Report 2024 , but this hasn’t yet translated into improved productivity or digital maturity. The poll of 600 decision makers in the UK and Ireland, now in its second year, reveals what it claims is a ‘stark productivity and efficiency paradox’ for employers, as well as a Catch-22 for workers.
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McKensey
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Global capability centers (GCCs) are rapidly evolving beyond their traditional roles as execution centers, becoming increasingly important as enterprise innovation hubs.
Spiceworks
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Stay updated on the ABCs of Tech - the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, and Cybersecurity with our daily news roundup. Discover what's shaping the tech industry today. The post Roblox to Add AI for Creators; Google, Apple Lose Big on EU Appeals; Slim CD Data Breach appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.
AdminDroid
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Confident your Microsoft 365 environment is secure? You might be overlooking some risks! Even the most sophisticated security systems can have their blind spots. While Microsoft 365 offers powerful tools for productivity, vulnerabilities often arise from misconfigurations, human error, or inadequate security practices rather than flaws within the platform itself.
Workplace Insight
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
facilities managmentWorkplaces need to be maintained and managed in a more agile and responsive way if they are to serve the needs of hybrid working and the so-called return to the office, according to new research from Colliers. Colliers Global Occupier Services’ new report Adaptive Facilities Management – a new vision in agility reveals traditional facilities management (FM) models, where services are delivered at fixed frequencies and costs, are no longer fit for purpose, due to occupancy l
McKensey
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
As companies strive to create value from AI, generative AI, and other rapidly evolving technologies, enterprise tech officers will make fundamental shifts in the way they operate.
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Work Life
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Today, Gusto , a payroll and HR software platform for small businesses, rolled out a new AI “assistant” named “Gus” that promises to simplify compliance and save companies from crushing fines. Gus is powered by OpenAI’s API and allows users to ask questions such as: “How much overtime pay do I owe my employees who work in California?” Or, “What kind of paperwork do I need to complete to onboard my new employee in Texas?
Office Snapshots
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
In response to evolving workplace needs post-COVID, Oktra undertook the refurbishment of two buildings in London and Hove for Legal & General. The spaces, spanning eight floors in total, had grown dated and inefficient prompting the client to rejuvenate their working environment to enhance talent retention and encourage a return to the office. Oktra worked alongside Legal & General to develop a change management scheme that would bring their workspace up to standard and make it fit for t
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Welcome to Pressing Questions , Fast Company ’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions. Q: How should I handle being constantly interrupted? A: Hold on, I’m going to let you finish. Being interrupted is not only annoying, it can feel demoralizing.
Tanveer Naseer
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
As team lifespans continue to shorten as a result of both layoffs and employee leaving for opportunities elsewhere, leaders are having to deal with another growing issue in today’s evolving workplaces: specifically, how do you ensure team harmony when everything – including the make-up of your teams – is in.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Katia Verresen has a wish “for people to understand, feel, and embody the truth of their creative power.” “I fundamentally believe that we are born creators and we can design for anything,” the executive coach says. “We have this creative agency and sovereignty. I’ve noticed that so many people have forgotten that. To understand this is to be connected to what I call your Inner Power: It’s this compass you have inside of you.
fm:systems
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
FM:Systems VP of Strategy, Andrew Butterworth is featured in FMJ article on real estate’s role in climate change and how smart building technology can help organizations not only run smoother but also reduce costs and their carbon footprint FMJ: Smart Building Innovation
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
By now, most business leaders understand the benefits of diversity. And while more and more organizations are making an effort on this front, improvements at the leadership level remain few and far between. Many business leaders assume that they can combat a lack of diversity on their leadership teams by promoting (and recruiting) historically underrepresented individuals.
Great Place to Work
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Data from the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Europe List offers insights on what companies can do to improve sustainability. Hope is fading for leaders to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a plan crafted to tackle 17 of the world’s biggest problems, from hunger to climate change. In its 2023 progress report , the UN said measurable progress on the 140 targets in its SDGs was “weak and insufficient.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
If you have ever been to a recruiting conference, odds are you‘ve seen purple squirrels everywhere. On shirts, hats, or swag, the purple squirrel has come to be a mascot of those in recruiting and talent acquisition. In recruiter talk, it’s that magical perfect candidate: One who is exceptionally skilled, perfectly suited, and nearly impossible to find.
FirLyfe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Looking for an incentive management program to manage points, rewards, and prizes for wellness program participation? Online incentive programs can help you achieve your wellness goals and improve population health. But they’re not all created equal. Many use a one-size-fits-all design. That’s a problem that doesn’t always allow for customization to achieve the best results.
Yarooms
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Predictability in the workplace refers to the degree of consistency and reliability of the patterns, processes and expectations surrounding work. It's about knowing what to expect, when to expect it and how to meet those expectations.
FirLyfe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
What is FitLyfe 360 ? It’s the most agile and powerful wellness platform in the wellness industry, highly flexible, and designed to accommodate any wellness strategy (outcome, hybrid, full-health-contingent, and more.) You’ll never have to search for another health and wellness platforms and new vendors again. And if you change your strategy from year to year, no problem.
Workplace Insight
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
JLL’s latest Future of Work Survey claims to reveal new opportunities for the commercial property sector as two-thirds of business leaders expect their CRE budget to rise between now and 2030. Despite challenges in the commercial real estate sector and bumpy economic conditions, global business leaders are optimistic about the future, with two-thirds (65 percent) expecting their CRE budgets to increase by 2030, according to the poll.
Productivityist
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
In this latest episode of our monthly series, PM Talks , Patrick Rhone and I further explore the delicate balance between urgency and – more notably this time around – importance in our lives. We explore how navigating these two forces impacts everything from birthday parties to home renovations and even our evolving relationship with AI. The conversation is a continuation of themes we’ve discussed in previous episodes, with a focus on how urgency often overshadows importance—and what we c
fm:systems
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Forrester Research: Cracking The Smart Buildings Code A Spotlight on Commercial Real Estate Cracking The Smart Buildings Code A Spotlight on Commercial Real Estate
FirLyfe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Build Your Corporate Wellness Program Ready to build a corporate wellness program or add features to your current employee wellness program? You’ll find everything you need right here. Corporate Wellness Program Success Starts Here The FitLyfe 360 Platform is designed to help you build a corporate wellness program that gets results, or add on to the success of your existing health and wellness program.
fm:systems
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Watch this session recording hosted by IFMA where we'll explore key findings from Johnson Controls' commissioned research paper from Forrester, “Cracking The Code: Unleash Your Smart Buildings Strategy With The Power Of Facility Data.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
D epression is almost always treated with depression pills, although their effect is so small that it lacks clinical relevance. In most placebo-controlled trials, the effect is measured as an improvement on the Hamilton Depression Scale, and meta-analyses have shown that the effect is considerably less than the smallest effect that can be perceived, even for patients with very severe depression.
Success
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
When Jen Barnett was a grad student in her 20s, she was overwhelmed with her studies and looking for a way out. “I walked out of class, dropped out and tried to buy a one-way ticket to France,” she explains. While her travel agent talked her off the ledge and convinced her to make it a round-trip ticket instead, the seed was planted for Barnett’s life as an expat and her business, Expatsi.
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