Talent disruption is on the cards

According to Mercer’s 2019 Global Talent Trends study, over three-quarters (78%) of executives in South Africa predict significant disruption in the next three years, compared to 28% in 2018. As executives focus on making their organisations...

Cloud gaming could be the next play

Microsoft, Tencent and other cloud service providers have many of the attributes that make a successful entrance into the cloud gaming market, according to a new report from global business information provider IHS Markit. That seems to be a prudent decision, since...

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%)...