Listen to millennials – they know what they’re talking about

A lot has been said about the headline-dominating screen generation who have their own ideas about how companies should be run. And the time has come for human resources (HR) to start paying attention. This is according to Joanne Bushell, IWG MD for Africa, who says...

How to fill the most in-demand skills

According to ManpowerGroup research, the most in-demand skills in the world currently include sales representatives, project managers, information technology professionals, office support and financial analysts, among others. Yet these roles differ within the modern...

Technology: sinister threat or golden opportunity?

By now, regardless of what industry we work in, most of us have witnessed the rapid entry of technology into our daily work lives. By Sandra Crous, MD of PaySpace With many fundamental business tasks already being taken over by automation and artificial intelligence,...

Upskilling your workforce: an investment that pays

Implementing the right training and development programme can bring far-reaching benefits to a company. Upskilling employees is an investment that can yield significant returns for a company, says Mark Wilson, MD of Syspro. What if you could increase employee...

Changing workplaces: collaboration is in the detail

Can a workplace encourage more collaboration? Dell Technologies embarked on a journey to find out and give its employees more chances to interact. How would you define collaboration? In essence, it means to work together, but at the broadest sense collaboration...

No success without agility, says IWG

To keep pace with the legislative and social changes shaping our global workforce, businesses need to harness the power of flexible workspace. This is the word from Mark Dixon, CEO of flexible space service provider IWG, speaking at the 2019 MIPIM conference in...