Sep 15, 2014
As smartphone adoption in South Africa continues to accelerate beyond all expectation, enterprises are increasingly focussing on how to capitalise on a “mobile-enabled” workforce, says Marc Fletcher, director at Intervate – a T-Systems company. The fact...
Aug 7, 2014
Building a proactive workforce is every manager’s dream as it can boost a company’s performance, but a new study has found if job satisfaction is low those “agents of change” quickly lose their can-do attitude. Researchers followed 75 workers for two...
Aug 1, 2014
Cloud-based software solutions, biometric terminals and mobile apps will be among the key trends in the years to come for managing the workforce in business settings, according to new analysis from HIS Technology. In a white paper entitled “Five Global Trends Shaping...
Jul 29, 2014
Global businesses are increasing their reliance on contingent labour – the practice of filling full-time positions with contractual workers – and this has quickly turned into a trending long-term practice. Today, almost 26% of the average workforce is...
Jul 21, 2014
Today, you could say there is a global technology skills shortage. Demand for mobile applications and other consumer-technology is growing, but we just don’t have enough computer scientists or other tech-skilled graduates or school leavers, says Selvin Kristnen, MD...
