Displaying items by tag: Productivity

Ninenty-one percent of employees around the world are in favour of a hybrid work environment, but cite challenges to security and productivity, according to a new study by secure identity, payments and data protection company Entrust.

Mid-market organisations are losing one and a half days per week per employee thanks to manual or repetitive tasks due to ineffective digital solutions, according to research by accounting software provider MYOB.

Business software provider Zoho launches Canvas for Zoho CRM, a design studio for CRM personalisation, which enables businesses to create their own CRM interfaces that are suited to each employee without IT or developer involvement.

Australia's managers consistently overrate both their own — and their organisation's — efficacy at engaging and recognising the value of employees, according to a new study commissioned by Achievers, the progressive choice for employee voice and recognition solutions that accelerate a culture of performance.

GUEST OPINION by Daniel Harding, Director – Australia Operations, MaxContact: Historically, agents have either made calls or answered them but new generation contact centre technology makes it possible to do both.

Industrial software company AVEVA has strengthened its strategic partnership with global resource company BHP in a move it says will deliver increased productivity across multiple assets and accelerate digitisation.  

OfficeMaps is the interactive office maps and visual directory software that revolutionised the efficiency of office usage before the pandemic, and even more so now in mid-2021, with its recently released hot desk reservation calendar feature, so we spoke to CXO Robert Wilkinson to learn more!

Modern tractors, harvesters and other agricultural machinery use complex computerised systems that involve embedded software and specific tools and parts, and the competition regulator the ACCC says purchasers of the machinery would benefit from more independent competition in servicing and repair markets.

GUEST OPINION by Sam Deckert, Founder and Principal Consultant at Peak Insight: It’s tempting to view business collaboration projects as complex activities that take a long time to show a significant return on investment. Planning and deployment is likely to take months and any impact on daily activity will take an extended period to become apparent.

GUEST OPINION by Chris Ellis, APAC Technical Evangelist, Nintex: As increasing numbers of organisations tackle the challenge of digital transformation, many are coming to understand the important part played by robotic process automation (RPA) software.

Google Cloud has teamed with industrial automation and software technology provider Siemens to cooperate on optimising factory processes and to improve productivity on the shop floor.

As Australia and New Zealand forge ahead in 2021 and mark a full year of remote work for many organisations, it is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation globally and changed the future of work — likely permanently.

talentCRU: it's a truly talented crew of top workers in teams of 'tribes', ready to tackle any tech task, in what is a thoroughly modern and impressive working stye that truly takes into account the modern work/life balance while being fully compatible with the post COVID-19 reality of on-demand WFH.

talentCRU: it's a truly talented crew of top workers in teams of 'tribes', ready to tackle any tech task, in what is a thoroughly modern and impressive working stye that truly takes into account the modern work/life balance while being fully compatible with the post COVID-19 reality of on-demand WFH.

Working from home – but how hard? Helping remote employees connect more effectively is a great way to improve productivity

GUEST OPINION by Brendan Maree, Vice President Asia Pacific, 8x8: So, how’s that remote working experiment working out for your business? It’s been a year now since the onset of the COVID crisis forced Australian businesses and organisations to shutter their offices and send employees home. In April and May of last year, almost a third of Australians workers were toiling in their home offices, according to Roy Morgan research.

Work management platform provider Asana has introduced Project Overview to make it easier for people to find detailed information and collaborate with team peers.

After having started Belkin in his garage nearly 38 years ago, Belkin founder Chet Pipkin created an amazing company that remains a market leader to this day, with products worthy of being featured in Apple iPhone keynotes, and now he becomes Executive Chairman of the Board as he appoints a 16-year veteran of Belkin to be its new CEO.

Working from home has come at a cost to their productivity for some home workers, with a new survey finding that 48% of respondents reporting their work productivity decreasing.

BlackBerry's Spark Suite is now recognised as an "Android Enterprise Recommended Solution", with the suite including comprehensive Unified Endpoint Security and Management tools to deliver better security alongside the foundation for "mobility driven business transformation".

Australian farmers and miners could become less competitive than their global rivals unless a national plan is developed to expedite 5G coverage to rural and regional Australia, according to a new report jointly commissioned by Huawei Australia and the Telecommunications Association TelSoc.