Our Digital Workplace Directors Forum will examine in detail how the needs of our people are changing and how and where we can equip them to cater for this workplace revolution. Failure to do this is not an option.
Delegates at the Forum will witness case study content from organisations who are already implementing Digital Workplace strategies to improve employee and customer engagement.
The key topics to be discussed at the Digital Workplace Directors Forum include:
• The impact on employee and customer engagement
• The evolution of new technologies including robotics and artificial intelligence
• Employee communication, collaboration and value creation
• Designing employee experiences in the Digital Workplace
• Digital Workplace applications, solutions and innovations
Amazon has revealed plans to create more than 1,000 jobs in the UK in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cambridge. At least 600 “highly skilled” roles will be added in Manchester working on software, machine learning and AWS, its cloud computing business. The company will also create 250 and 180 jobs at its development centres in Edinburgh […]
O’Reilly Media has released its 2018 Annual IT/Ops Salary Survey. Began in 2017, the survey aims to share insight into the state of the global DevOps industry, and help professionals create a basis for salary discussions. The 2018 survey has shown that the global median pay for DevOps professionals currently stands at $90K a year. […]
Aviva is launching a “Mid-Life MOT” – providing targeted guidance on wealth, work and wellbeing for its employees aged 45 and above. This new service will launch in 2019 following a successful pilot in 2018 (1). The over-45s are the fastest growing population of workers in the UK – growing by more than a quarter […]
by Professor Mohamed-Hedi Charki, Associate Professor of Information Systems, EDHEC In recent years, many corporate leaders were attracted to enterprise social media platforms due to an outstanding number of expected benefits that include enhancing knowledge sharing, boosting cross-unit collaboration, improving creativity and advancing innovation. Consequently, corporate leaders, including Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) and Chief […]
Virgin Trains and Stagecoach shared in £51.2m worth of dividends from the West Coast main line railway, shortly before walking away from another franchise. Virgin Rail Group’s dividends, for the year ending 31 March 2018, are almost double the £27.9m that was given back to its shareholders in 2015. The details come after the firms’ […]
The Treasury is finalising plans to overhaul tax rules which allow self-employed people to avoid paying national insurance contributions. The move will be targeted at people who set themselves up as private companies to take on work. The BBC understands it could be announced in this month’s Budget. The Treasury believes a third of people […]
Hundreds of Royal Mail staff have complained that they have been short-changed as a result of a dramatic fall in the company’s share price. They claim the privatised company deliberately issued a profit warning weeks before many were planning to sell their shares. Since the announcement on 1 October the shares have fallen by 28%. […]
Dropbox, the popular file hosting service provider that allows users to store their files on the cloud and to synchronise such files across devices, was the most impersonated company for phishing attacks in the first half of 2018, research by security firm Webroot has revealed. Dropbox replaces Google for the first time As many as […]
A new tax on technology giants such as Facebook, Amazon and Google could raise £4.4bn a year across Europe, an EU commissioner has said. Pierre Moscovici, head of tax for the European Commission, said a deal was “doable by Christmas”. Good progress was being made, he said, in unblocking an issue that has caused controversy […]
Mental health issues have come to the forefront of public consciousness in the past year, but taking time off for a mental illness is still less widely accepted than taking a sick day for a physical illness, according to new research from Canada Life Group Insurance. Mental health presenteeism is a growing issue in the […]
