Almost overnight, even the least tech literate companies were forced to move business to the cloud, buy collaboration platforms, and start using SaaS applications to keep their business running and their employees safe. But when we finally beat COVID-19, will things go back to how they were?
Cisco Collaboration Unveils A Blueprint For the Hybrid Workplace
This week, with its July and August updates to Webex, Cisco SVP Javed Khan announced the company’s blueprint for hybrid workplaces as the pandemic looms.
Google Extends Work From Home Policy Through End of June 2021
Google joins the growing list of large corporations extending work from home policy, extending through the end of June 2021. We see this as a continuing trend from many large corporations and it’s exciting to watch the technology solutions serving this new “future of the workplace” evolve and organizations and employees adapt.
Google Announces Digital Job Training Program to Help with Economic Recovery
Grow with Google is designed to help jumpstart the economy by helping workers learn skills that will make them more appealing to employers (college degrees not required), and also to help employers fill what is often a gigantic skills gap. As part of this initiative, Google is offering grants, offering apprenticeship positions at Google, expanding its IT Certificate Employer Consortium and more. The future of work continues to be about an always-learning mindset, individually and in the business world, and this is another way Big Tech is stepping up to make that possible.
Siemens Partners With Salesforce for New Workplace Technology Suite
Siemens and Salesforce have partnered to provide an innovative workplace technology suite that allows employees to safely come back to work in physical offices and sets the stage for a next generation framework for the future of work. Siemens and Salesforce will first deploy this workplace offering in their own offices, including Siemens Smart Infrastructure headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, and Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. We are looking forward to hearing the results from these first deployments.
Microsoft Announces Launch of Global Digital Skills Initiative Serving 25 Million by Year End
Microsoft announced the launch of a global digital skills initiative serving 25 million by year end, in a move that is both as brilliant as it is benevolent — and that’s impressive. Here’s why.
How Coronavirus COVID-19 is Driving Change in HR Operations
Coronavirus COVID-19 is in many ways accelerating changes in the way we work that have already been happening. For HR leaders, coronavirus COVID-19 is driving significant change in HR operations that comes with its own set of challenges. HR ops has always been a gigantic responsibility within an organization, and we take a look here at how that responsibility has gotten even more critical.
4 Steps Toward Building an Awesome Employer Brand
It is a job seeker market. To set yourself apart and attract candidates here are four things to do to build your employer brand.
Automation Predictions Transforming the Future of Work in 2020
So, what should you be thinking about as we head into 2020? Which automation predictions should you take seriously, and which should you ignore? Let’s examine.
Ideas to try in 2020 to Prepare your Employees for the Future of Work
Depending where your company is in digital transformation, you may have a lot of work to do to prepare your employees for the future of work.