Employees
How to Create a SharePoint Site Both IT & Employees Will Love?
Creating a SharePoint site that employees love using and IT teams can easily manage is a challenge. While end-users want an attractive, easy-to-use intranet, IT teams can't always achieve this because of SharePoint limitations....
August 18th, 2022
Workplace of the Future – Is it the End of the Office?
The 20s have been a historic decade and caused a revolution in the way people work. As employees thrive in remote work the question arises - is it the end of the office? ...
January 12th, 2022
Episode 20: Should we all be working weekends?
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal, we ask if you would like to be able to work seven days a week? Is time off at weekends non-negotiable, or should all jobs be flexible enough to get some of your hours done at weekends?...
November 10th, 2021
Episode 19: The ‘Great Resignation’ goes global
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal, we discuss how the number of people quitting their jobs has hit record numbers in the US. The so-called “Great Resignation”, or the “Big Quit”, is impacting all industries and it is going global....
November 3rd, 2021
Can Hybrid Work Help Employee Productivity?
The hybrid workplace is growing in popularity, but this move to more flexible working is hindered by concerns over employee productivity. While remote workers can face challenges research actually supports the hybrid model which better meets employees' needs and ultimately can improve in office and ...
September 13th, 2021
Episode 11: Horizons Broaden for Digital Nomads
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal, we discuss why digital nomadism is increasingly popular, with workers, some earning very nicely, taking to the open road, or the high seas, in camper vans, sailing yachts, or simply cruising from city to city to get a taste of a different culture while m...
August 11th, 2021
Episode 10: Homeworkers Head Back to the Office for Free Aircon
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal, we’re talking about how workers have been heading back to the office, but is it just for the air conditioning? Many others are running for the hills, looking for new jobs because their companies failed to invest in the right technology to facilitate hybr...
July 28th, 2021
Episode 8: Going YOLO and the Growth of Freelancing
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal we discover why more and more workers are going YOLO - the philosophy that You Only Live Once - and ditching their jobs for new adventures. But is Freelancing the best way to achieve dreams of independence? More than a third of the 26 million jobs in ‘non...
July 7th, 2021
Episode 7: Salesforce Wants its Employees Out On the Ranch
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal we discuss how Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wants to buy a ranch as a new location for meetings and team building, and apparently, he’s taken his inspiration from Disney. As office workers shudder at the idea of returning to their desks in city offices, th...
June 30th, 2021
Episode 6: What is Happening to Entry-Level Jobs and Middle Managers?
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal we’re discussing how the number of entry-level positions has been declining rapidly over the last decade, a trend that has accelerated in the last 12 months. The demand for tech skills has never been higher, something higher education will have to factor ...
June 23rd, 2021
Episode 3: Commuting to Work, Mental Health, and Financial Savings
In this episode of Welcome to the New Normal we ask if the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) going to drive us back from home comforts to the hustle and bustle of the office? What’s certain is that a return to the shared workplace means a return to the commute and whether this has a positive or negative im...
June 2nd, 2021
Innovation Vision: Building an Inclusive Digital Workplace
Our COO Jean-Pierre Vimard shares his innovation vision, a vision that has helped build an inclusive digital workplace shaped by our clients. From a company intranet designed to leverage Office 365 investments to a complete digital workplace that improves the employee experience, our solutions are c...
May 5th, 2021