Make employee time management pain-free

Companies employ costly knowledge workers and subject experts to trade their expertise for an hourly consulting fee and collect a tidy return on their payroll investment. But financial managers often find themselves burdened with time-consuming investigations to...

Econz helps Metro Telworks with field service

Econz Wireless, a leading solution provider of mobile time & attendance and employee tracking solutions, has provided Metro Telworks with an accurate field service tracking system. Metro provides a valuable service to network operators such as Vodacom and Cell C,...

Why SA’s IT students need internships

In both South Africa and abroad, what was once a looming skills crisis has quickly become an alarming reality. For years, surveys and research reports have revealed that the lack of skills and expertise is a major constraint to business growth – and indeed, to...

Why gender diversity is important

Lyndy van den Barselaar, MD Manpower South Africa, contends that gender diversity is critical to sustaining business performance in the modern business environment. While the issue of gender diversity in business is nothing new, the nature of the modern business...

Connecting people to implementations

People don’t like change. It is a fundamental part of the human condition, the impact of which can be seen in numerous media outbursts and employee departures and missives of online rage. Just take a look at the universal reaction to Instagram changing something...

Promotions should be earned

Getting a promotion may seem like a momentous event, but without the support of those you work with, and whom you will eventually manage, the joy of receiving a promotion may be short lived. What’s more, unless you are able to meet and exceed the expectations of...