Dealing with dark data in financial services

Data is widely acknowledged to be one of a business’ most valuable assets. Yet even data can depreciate in value, writes Jasmit Sagoo, senior director: Northern Europe at Veritas Technologies. Like currency itself, it is always changing and evolving with new types...

How to mitigate risks from Covid-19 disruption

The Covid-19 pandemic has created immense risks to public and private sector organisations as they grapple with new business models, a suddenly-distributed workforce, and widespread uncertainty and disruption. By Isabel Papadakis, head: Africa industry value advisory...

Tips for negotiating TERS payments

The Department of Employment and Labour has approved a temporary employer/employee relief scheme (TERS). By Yolandi Esterhuizen, registered tax practitioner and compliance manager at Sage Africa & Middle East This enables employers to pay employees with funds made...

The power challenge for remote workers

Even though it is still unclear what the workplace of the future will look like, remote working is likely to form an integral part of it. By Jurgen Sorton, head of managed IT services at Vox  With many companies using the past several weeks to migrate to the cloud,...

Gender or sex: don’t discriminate against either

What if your white male employee self-identified as a woman? Or your African male colleague identified as an African female to score more BEE points? This is not a test. This is the future of the workplace where gender and racial identities are fluid and organisations...

Take care of tech talent when it matters

In what feels like a minute, the world has gone massively digital. People are doing everything online because of Covid-19, and the strain is showing. To the extent that the global economy is running, it’s doing so on digital sales and distribution. By Ruth Ebeling,...