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GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and Country Manager – ANZ, Zscaler:  The ongoing global pandemic has caused fundamental changes to businesses. Two of the most significant have been the widespread adoption of remote working and the increased usage of cloud-based collaboration platforms.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and Country Manager – ANZ, Zscaler:  The ongoing global pandemic has caused fundamental changes to businesses. Two of the most significant have been the widespread adoption of remote working and the increased usage of cloud-based collaboration platforms.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Although the spectre of Omicron hovers, people are nevertheless returning to work in a hybrid fashion, with the demand for modern, fast and fluid videoconferencing experiences never greater, whether at home, at work, or other remote working scenarios, so what are the trends for a world on the mend?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Although the spectre of Omicron hovers, people are nevertheless returning to work in a hybrid fashion, with the demand for modern, fast and fluid videoconferencing experiences never greater, whether at home, at work, or other remote working scenarios, so what are the trends for a world on the mend?

New Zealand founded workplace feedback startup Joyous has raised NZ$15 million in a new funding round to significantly expand its team and product for global companies.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

Singaore-based AI and behavioural science powered platform OnLoop has announced that the product is now available to all users, after being in private beta since January this year.

Australian employees are working longer hours, feeling more pressure to be ‘always on’ and are more likely to switch jobs than most global regions, according to new research from Adobe.

Company recognized as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion”

COMPANY NEWS:  Unisys is proud to report that its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has been recognized with a perfect score in the 2021 Disability Equality Index®. The score of 100% signifies Unisys as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion.”

Global customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce has completed its acquisition of enterprise collaboration platform Slack Technologies.

Three in five Australian workers are open to their employer mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace, according to the June quarter Employee Sentiment Index (ESI) from cloud-based HR provider Elmo Software.

Meeting Barometer drops as people struggle with virtual collaboration, on the impending return to the office

COMPANY NEWS by Barco: In its newest, international survey, Barco Clickshare, a global leader in visualisation and collaboration solutions, has surveyed the engagement and needs of Australian employees in meetings and identified five key trends that business decision makers simply cannot afford to ignore when preparing for a flexible, future fit hybrid workplace.

Workplace safety solutions company SafetyCulture has completed a $99 million funding round led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners,

Australian-listed Macquarie Telecom Group has been recognised as one of the top places to work in Australia in the annual global Best Places to Work List, for fostering an “inclusive workforce” and its Heartbeat customer service program.

Technology consultancy Mantel Group is establishing five work hubs around the country in response to employee demand for flexible working generated by the pandemic.

Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies like virtual personal assistants and chatbots are rapidly making headway into the workplace and predicted to replace almost 69% of a manager’s workload.

South Australian electricity distributor SA Power Networks has developed a digital strategy program that incorporates the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud for a workplace transformation that mitigates siloed operations across a vast geographical area of the State.

The quality of customer service delivered by Australian professionals is being impacted by an average of two hours of wasted time every week as they try to track down the right information internally they need to do their jobs, but despite this many professionals say that collaboration technology would help them do their job more efficiently.

The worldwide market for social software and collaboration in the workplace is expected to grow revenue from an estimated US$2.7 billion in 2018 to US$4.8 billion by 2023, nearly doubling in size, according to a new analyst report.