Posts tagged digital workplace

Which digital workplace tools create better employee experiences? What value can they deliver? And how can an organisation select the right tools for its situation? The Real Story Group has published the EmpEx 200 to explore the categories of digital tools while considering the employee experience. The chart showcases 200 tools that dominate the digital workplace experience. MARGINALIA spoke with founder Tony Byrne to find out what businesses can make of the chart and its underpinning research.

Instant messaging tools such as Skype, Slack, or Facebook are increasingly becoming popular in the workplace and are changing the way employees traditionally connect with their colleagues.

Igloo Software helps companies around the world transform their business with a digital workplace platform that brings teams and resources together to drive productivity and support a positive corporate culture. In this interview, Vice President of Marketing, Mike Hicks, shares the best practices to create a digital destination that helps an organisation to improve communication, collaboration, knowledge sharing and employee engagement.

Productivity and teamwork are both significantly improved when employees can choose where they work, a global survey by Polycom has found.

Majority of HR and business leaders are not ready to build “the organisation of the future”; 42 per cent have implemented robotics, cognitive and AI technologies; However, only 16 per cent are ready to manage a workforce where these technologies and people work side by side; Recruitment, careers and learning rise up the list of priorities in 2017.

Gloria Lombardi interviews Ana Neves, the founder of Social Now, who shares insights on enterprise collaboration tools and practices. Neves also invites MARGINALIA readers to attend her conference in Lisbon in May for two days of digital ways of working expertise.

Trusting employees by giving them autonomy is the key to making a success of the digital workplace, according to research conducted by Nick van der Meulen of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR).

Candidate feedback is being wasted as it is being collected after the event, greatly diminishing its value by the time the next tranche of applicants are being hired, according to new analysis from global talent acquisition and management firm, Alexander Mann Solutions.

How can organisations adapt to change and help employees to keep learning and developing?  Susanne van der Velden created Team up, a digital workplace tool that combines collaboration and e-learning, and knows a thing or two about innovation after her many years of academic studies.

New research by Colliers International shows that 62% of companies in the TMT sector are looking to expand their headcount.

Less than half of UK businesses and organisations provide employees with guidance on how to switch off from work when they go home.

A new study shows that while many of us cannot do our job without email, it can stress us out – and that personality differences affect how we use email and what we find stressful.

Work colleagues are less likely to intervene in workplace bullying if it takes place online.

The number of IT tools or apps in UK offices has risen over the last year – but not nearly as much as in France and Germany. Using more apps fuels greater stress levels for nearly six in ten respondents. Email still the most widely used IT tool, but also the biggest ‘productivity zapper’.

The ‘Sodexo Echo’ employee app saved the food services and facilities management company significant outlay by increasing staff retention. Results show that Sodexo Canada got a clear return on their investment in the app.

Landmark report by digital-workplace researcher Jane McConnell based on data from 300+ organizations across 27 countries, investigates role of digital in innovation, learning, mobility, agility, efficiency, customer-facing activity, decision-making, collaboration, elasticity, and other key aspects of organizational change.

The value of corporate memory has never been in doubt, but how can it be nurtured and retained during a time of exponential technological change? Especially when employees change roles frequently, and contractors come and go. Elisa Steele, CEO of Jive, spoke about these challenges at a breakfast event in London, to shed light on how to ensure that memory does not walk out of the door when employees leave.

Large organisations have been undergoing digital transformation for a number of years, but has enough been done to ensure that their employees have the right tools and content to work productively? Enter mHub – a digital workplace app designed to give access to all the information and tools that they need to work more productively.

The founder of IntranetNow, Wedge Black, believes that it is time to develop “software curiosity” in order to work and communicate more productively. Gloria Lombardi interviews.

What happens to an organisation when mobile enters its Internal Communication function? Gloria Lombardi speaks with analyst Maribel Lopez.