Fri.May 31, 2024

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People must take the lead on hybrid working to drive highest returns

Workplace Insight

A new report from workplace technology provider Eptura suggests that employee-led hybrid working models and connected technology drive the highest returns for businesses. According to its first half 2024 Workplace Index report [registration], companies with hybrid working models in which employees can choose when to come to the office are seeing the most benefit.

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Exploring the Contexts for Healthy Change

WELCOA

Change is necessary—now more than ever. Between the popularity of remote work and the emergence of AI technologies, it has become increasingly important for organizations to be change ready and adaptable. In the webinar “ Setting the Contexts for Healthy Change ” presented by WELCOA and the National Wellness Institute (NWI), Hanlie van Wyk and Colin Bullen of Virtuositeam shared their tips on making healthy change initiatives succeed in the workplace.

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Stepping Out of Your Vertical

Sarah Levitt

And into an enterprise mindset, something many of my clients are asking of their current and aspiring senior leadership, requires the following: Curiosity. About other functions, about the business, about the company’s strategic goals, about other people and their challenges, about how the pieces of the puzzle fit together. A View of the Long Game.

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A new generation of workplace apps is transforming people’s experience of work

Workplace Insight

Disseminating information about a building to the people who occupy it has come a long way from a basic, intranet desktop interface with warnings about wet floors or notices about charity fundraising. These days, workplace apps promise a much more sophisticated experience, which can be accessed in the palm of your hand. Gartner has a useful definition of workplace apps’ capabilities, stating, “They are used to explore and reserve workspaces, navigate the workplace, find colleagues, plan the best

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Preventative Tooling for Content Moderator Wellbeing

Zevo Health

Existing Tools for Content Moderator Wellbeing The online sphere is rife with harms, spanning from innocuous spam to violent and egregious content. The most harmful content includes child sexual abuse and exploitation imagery, suicide and self-injury content, and terrorism and violent extremism. Human moderators are tasked with removing such harmful content daily – with hundreds of thousands of pieces of content that are audio-visual, text-based, and even live-streamed across platforms.

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Make my day, punk. With Will Easton

Workplace Insight

Will Easton joins me for a chat over a drink on the Workplace Cocktail Hour podcast. We discuss many things including: the scope of facilities and workplace management and why it offers so many career opportunities for people; punk approaches to work; what presence means and why it can be found in mosh pits as well as when touching grass; the emerging role of UX in designing offices; and why you should take the claims of iconic office designs with a pinch of salt.

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Managers: Here’s how to support a grieving employee

Work Life

Loss is a fact of life. Sooner or later, every one of us will lose loved ones, and those losses create a rip in the fabric of our lives. To start to repair that tear, we engage in a grieving process that helps us rewrite the story of our lives in a way that eventually allows us to move forward without the presence of the individual we have lost. The grief process is powerful, but it is slow.

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Fostering systems-based solutions addressing sexual harassment in higher ed

Minding the Workplace

Last October, leaning on Einstein, at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Wash. DC. Last fall, I accepted an invitation to join the Advisory Committee of the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education , an ongoing, staffed initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , based in Washington D.C.

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