How Webex by Cisco participated in an innovative experiment in the historic Italian city to better understand how a hybrid-work future will revolutionize our lives, organizations, and communities. In March...
We have heard about the Great Resignation and the big reshuffle the pandemic has fueled. After perhaps being pushed harder and farther than ever before for the past two years,...
The emerging new tech is designed to bring us closer together and what that means to an industry that’s just starting to get social. Community-enabled technology: in short, it’s tech...
The 2020 pandemic thrust upon us the new reality of working from home. While for more traditional corporations, remote work came as a shock, for other startups and software companies,...
Companies like Facebook and Twitter expect many employees to work far from headquarters after the pandemic. That calls for a change in corporate cultures. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says half...
“We saw that business double overnight,” startup says of UK grocery deliveries. On the morning of March 30, I set out from my home in Washington, DC, to the campus...
Planning is already underway for the dramatically redesigned workplace that will be our new normal from now until the day the pandemic is brought to heel. We’re already getting a...
The concept of ‘a workplace’ has always been open to interpretation, however, never has its relevance been so challenged and its functionality so examined as it has in 2020. Where...
Some tech companies are adjusting to the pandemic with new WFH perks and even letting employees ditch their commutes forever. FOR YEARS, TECH companies have lured talent with sweet in-office perks:...
Dozens of studies find remote workers happy and productive. Why not let them be? It’s 2020: we finally live in the future! Or at least a future—one where broadband Internet connections and...
Governments need to plan now for the day automation makes many workplace skills obsolete. WALLY KANKOWSKI OWNS a pool repair business in Florida and likes 12 creams in his McDonald’s coffee...
COVID-19 will not only change our way of life, it will hasten the arrival of a radical new future of work. While remote work has been a new and unexpected...
Leaders have long enjoyed tinkering with team design. Steve Jobs was notorious for insisting that meetings should be small groups of smart people. He had no compunction about letting someone...
The robots are coming, but they will find it hard to replace human empathy and judgment, speakers say at the WIRED25 Festival. The machines are coming for us—or at least...
We are at the dawn of a new AI-powered age, but it is critical to understand that the next big leap in productivity won’t just come from automation – it...
Technological advancements, demographic shifts in the workforce and informed customers have played a major role in transforming the modern workplace for the future of work. And, where once it seemed...
To offset the loss of educated workers to “superstar cities,” more places are offering perks like relocation stipends and the option to work remotely. It was the spring of 2010...
When siblings Jonathan Smalley and Melanie Charlton began brainstorming a startup in her Annapolis basement in 2014, they were unwittingly following in the footsteps of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard,...
Technology that was once disruptive has now become part of our everyday lives. It’s so pervasive that mundane tasks such as ordering a ride service or food are now done...
BetterUp wants to bring data to human resources and create more fulfilled employees. The way Alexi Robichaux tells it, his online executive coaching company BetterUp didn’t start because he was...
As tech companies draw scrutiny over on-demand labor practices, one platform is piloting a program in which worker benefits are supported by customers. As tech companies draw scrutiny over on-demand...
250 years ago in the UK a revolution started which totally transformed the social-fabric of every nation on the planet. In 1750 only 15% of people lived in towns with...
Now that we are in the midst of the world’s largest remote work experiment, it’s worth asking: how does being virtual change your approach to running a good meeting? As...
