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...
Why should I be in the office? It’s not ‘because I told you to.’ That’s not the answer. – Tom Naratil, the president of UBS in the Americas Each technological...
Rather than see an age-diverse workplace as a challenge to be overcome, managers can boost a company’s success by making the most of employee experience. In 2016, the CEO of...
How companies are making far-flung employees feel like teammates. Last December, emboldened by the rise of remote work, a marketing firm in the Midwest began hiring staff outside its time...
The discontent of today’s workforce presages a new era of work culture What are the most critical aspects of work culture from the perspective of workers? Perhaps we can start...
Small-business owners may flourish in a future filled with remote workers, but to grow they’ll need to lean on their greatest asset: versatility. In 2018, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma,...
Q “Can you train us to have better meetings?”A “We can, and it probably won’t work.” Bad meetings are the bane of the modern working world. The back-to-back, uninterrupted energy...
Introduction The move to hybrid work has sparked controversy among prominent business leaders. Some view remote and hybrid work as a mere chapter in history—a means to an end during...
At the beginning of the pandemic, few realized how dramatically it would affect the way we work. At first, it seemed that working from home might just be temporary—and that...
Do you know the biggest challenge your team faces outside work right now? Be sure to ask and listen. And watch PayPal’s Dave Montez on the power of the one-on-one....
There are roughly five generations in today’s workforce. Each has its own set of beliefs, workflows, and values that ultimately shape an organization and its culture. Some of these go...
Missteps by corporations and institutions balancing the bottom line with employee well-being have led to a global pandemic of burnout, one that reaches into all aspects of life, at work...
Workplace upheaval is changing societies everywhere. But to fully embrace remote and hybrid work, one thing is clear: while digital infrastructure is critical, it’s not all that’s needed. In 2009,...
“You can’t endorse a top-down authority structure and be serious about enhancing adaptability, innovation, or engagement.“ | Gary Hamel, Bureaucracy Must Die Today’s CEOs are reacting to current economic, political, and...
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,...
Exhaustion while working at home is an increasing concern, but new solutions are paving the way for a brighter future. In August 2020, a large outdoor retail company made a...
Webex’s own Kris Rangarajan interviews Dr. Daniel Goleman, Author, Psychologist, and Leader in Emotional Intelligence at WebexOne. They talk about the growing importance of Emotional Intelligence in the new workplace,...
How we pace our work permeates—and changes—work culture “Every form of civilization is a wise equilibrium between firm substructure and soaring liberty.” – Eugen Rosenstock The Covid-19 pandemic has led...
The freedom to hire anyone anywhere enables businesses to reach new peaks with workers who are more neurodiverse. In 2020, Ultranauts, a software and data-quality engineering startup founded by two...
Lately, you can’t talk about work without talking about hybrid work. As the world attempts to get back to “regular” business, brands and industry watchers hypothesize what work will look...
From luxurious break rooms to fun team outings, employers have historically invested a lot in providing ways for their people to socialize. That is: until our working world moved from...
When it comes to my own team, I don’t want us to get too good at our jobs. If we can do our jobs in our sleep, then we have...
In this episode of our Thought Leaders Series Nazareth Vartanian, Director of Global Engineering & Operations at Facebook, and Navin Singh, Chief Customer Officer of the US Golf Association, share...
The way we work changed drastically in 2020, and even as we prepare to go back into the office, the workplace will never be the same. Leaders will have to...
In the last year, the employee experience has completely changed. With most of the workforce at home, the way businesses engage their employees has had to evolve quickly. In this...
It’s been a year since most organizations pivoted to remote work. In our new series, “Future of Work Thought Leaders,” Jeetu Patel sits down with partners and customers to discuss...
When the pandemic hit, ServiceNow was able to take its workforce that consisted of over 12,000 employees completely remote practically overnight. In this episode, CJ Desai, Chief Product Officer at...
We know that the future of work is hybrid, but let’s fast forward five, ten years down the line. How will technology help streamline collaboration, create a blend of synchronous/asynchronous...
One of the main attributes of human beings is our desire to be together. Tribes, religions, communities, and partnerships all form out of our need to exist and share experiences...
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 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...
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...
