Megatrends impacting workforces, leadership and learning in 2022​

The Covid-19 pandemic has put several megatrends in motion. These are powerful, transformative forces shaping every area of our lives, including our workplaces, leadership and learning. This is according to Jackie Kennedy, founder of the LeadMe Academy, unpacking some...

Making a success of blended working environments

The hybrid or blended work model initially brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the future of workplaces as well as work arrangements. Most companies have shifted to a hybrid model, as it enables a happy medium of combining working remotely with...

Workplace technology 2022: inlocking the art of the possible

If there is one positive thing that the technology industry can take from the global pandemic, it is that change is often not as impossible as it may seem. By Christian Reilly, vice-president: technology strategy at Citrix Most businesses were already on some form of...

Work-from-home ushered in an age of flexible human work

Most organisations have settled into more digital ways of working and collaborating since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. By Gerhard Hartman, vice-president: medium business for Sage Africa & Middle East Following the success of the universal work-from-home...

The business debate around compulsory vaccinations

With many companies looking to enforce vaccine mandates for employees from the beginning of next year, Ian McAlister, GM of CRS Technologies, examines several of the key issues surrounding this. According to the Consolidated Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)...

How to prepare for hybrid work

Stakeholders came together during the Microsoft 365 Summit South Africa: The Future of Hybrid Work to discuss the big question on everyone’s mind: how do we adopt hybrid work, with a view to maintaining and enhancing work culture, productivity and well-being?...