2020 Workplace Learning Trends Report: The Skills of the Future

whitePaper | May 25, 2022

To industry outsiders, this might be a surprising statement as WHS is usually seen as a conservative discipline. Safety practices tend to be applied systematically to constrain, confine, and generally restrict employee proactivity, reducing innovation capability (Dekker, 2017). To most people, WHS does not convey the notion of ‘cutting-edge innovation’.

whitePaper | May 21, 2022

Now is the time for companies to rethink, rebuild, and transform their performance management processes. After all, a company's practices and policies set the stage for employee experience. One of the core and critical practices - performance management - is often overlooked and not understood as an important element of employee experience and an employee’s decision to stay and grow at a company.

whitePaper | December 28, 2022

The pandemic threw lives completely out of gear, and every individual, organization, group was left figuring out how to address the unprecedented questions the situation posed. However, even the darkest of clouds bring along with them silver linings. For software companies, this lining translated to flexible working, higher productivity, better work-life balance, and access to remote global talent. For the employees, the opened-up opportunities hitherto unavailable. They could save hours in commute, work from the comforts of their home or any remote location (imagine working from any exotic location), less disturbance, higher productivity, flexible working hours and the ability to work for any global company without having to relocate.

whitePaper | February 5, 2023

2022 brought its share of unexpected challenges to businesses across the country. The lingering impact of the Great Resignation compels employers to look deeper into what attracts, engages and inspires employees. This focus remains necessary heading into 2023 while speaking to another trend: the need for more strategic HR. As the right technology automates more tedious processes, an opportunity emerges for HR professionals to study, advise and lead.

whitePaper | April 3, 2023

Now is the time to embrace a skills-first approach to talent – at all stages of the lifecycle. Whether your challenges are around hiring, engagement, retention, filling talent gaps or unlocking productivity, looking at talent and work through the lens of skills is the crucial first step.

whitePaper | January 10, 2020

Technology is becoming more cognitive, more reactive and most importantly, more human. As tech evolves to meet our every need, we need it to learn and grow on its own; to work with us to create a more effective outcome. So, how exactly is technology changing? And how is it helping us in the workplace? Some specific types of technology have come to help, or even replace, traditional human roles. Virtual or AI assistants (Artificial Intelligence Assistants), for example, can aid us in our everyday working lives, and are often taking on a more human presence by cracking jokes or reacting in a more colloquial way.