Employees around the world are more engaged

Employees’ willingness to go above and beyond at work, and their intent to stay with their employer, both increased across all geographies at the end of 2018, breaking a five-quarter downtrend. This is according to 4Q18 data from Gartner’s Global Talent...

SA banks deliver sustained growth

Against the backdrop of a relatively supportive global economic environment over the first half of 2018, offset by a weak South African economy in technical recession during the same period and a modest recovery over the second half, the major banks delivered...

IoT moves into the mainstream

Kathy Gibson reports – Internet of Things (IoT) adoption is increasing fast, with 34% of companies around the world already using the technology. More than three-quarters (76%) of those say that it is mission-critical to them, and 8% of adopters are entirely...

Flexible working a deal breaker for talent

New findings suggest that businesses that do not have a flexible workspace policy risk losing out on top talent. Research conducted by IWG shows that 83% of people would choose a job which offered flexible working over a job that didn’t, and almost a third (28%)...

SAFPS saves businesses R2bn

The annual impact of global fraud exceeds $1-trillion: enough to end poverty around the world; enough to fund cancer research and treatment over 40 years; and enough to supply water to unserved communities around the world, according to LexisNexis Risk Solutions....

Quality of living key in overseas operations

Trade tensions and populist undercurrents continue to dominate the global economic climate and, when combined with the threat of stringent and inconsistent monetary policies looming over markets, international businesses are under more pressure than ever to get their...