User research, conducted with people with disabilities, is an important step to understand varying needs, and test and validate that our experiences are accessible, or identify any barriers that still exist,”
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How Modern, Open Technologies Can Boost Recruiting and Retention
While there are a variety of ways and means of addressing this challenge, there’s one fundamental choice companies can make in their technical strategy — one that’s more relevant than ever in the cloud-first
Careers and Chance: How Much Control Do You Really Have?
Therefore, knowing when and how proximate chance events matter can advance our understanding of career sensemaking and the extent to which luck plays a role in it. Nonetheless, our results suggest that an
Amazon, FTX And Predictions About The Future Of Work
Skills-based hiring is taking hold – Whether it’s the popular “micro-credentialing” career certificates offered through the Grow with Google program—which founder Lisa Gevelber said will soon expand into new
Diversity And Inclusion Matter In The Digital Context
Employees who better represent your entire customer base help drive innovative and inclusive digital product and service development. In addition, however, we see three reasons why a strong DEI strategy is
How to Change Someone’s Mind
Through storytelling techniques, she awakened the king’s curiosity, challenged his behaviour and managed to change his outlook on life. Scheherazade realised that the king had deep and powerful defences –
The Future of Work: Optimizing Hybrid for 2023
There’s certainly a disconnect between those organizations who believe workers are more productive when they are remote and the business leaders who are mandating a return to the office at pre-pandemic levels.
Could Elon Musk’s Staff Purge Create a ‘Twitter Mafia?’
Parag Agrawal, who was Twitter’s CEO, and Ned Segal, who served as CFO, were let go last Thursday along with other executive leadership after Musk took control of the social media platform. Some 20 years ago,
The World’s Most Talent Competitive Countries, 2022
The 9th edition of the GTCI provides a composite view of talent competitiveness – the set of policies and practices that enable a country to develop, attract and empower the human capital that contributes to
Navigating the New World of Work
Mortensen also touched on issues related to organisational trust that can emerge when managers and employees don’t operate out of the same physical space. Firms need to focus on building an inclusive environment
Cracking the Code for Skills-Based Hiring
Now, state leaders are following suit, with Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s recent decision to remove the college degree requirement for thousands of public-sector jobs, and to intentionally focus on hiring
How to Draw and Retain Top Talent in Cyber Security
“Raising funding for your startup is all about building trust with investors who invest in companies like yours, at the stage that you’ve reached, as you work to solve problems that they’re interested in,” says Rob Lalka,
contingent workforce
A contingent workforce consists of freelancers, independent contractors and consultants who are not on the company’s payroll because they are not employees of the organization. A contingent worker does not receive
Offboarding Staff Securely: Best Practices in the Extended Workforce Era
With unsupervised IT offboarding processes for exiting interns — or any former employee, really — may still be able to access and use SaaS applications and data from their previous roles leaving businesses unknowingly open to security risks . “They need visibility into all SaaS