Guest post by Cierra Gross, founder and CEO of Caged Bird HR High-trust organizations have been proven to substantially impact employee engagement, productivity, stress, and wellness. Yet, the belief that HR is there to protect the company is growing in employee consciousness. Consequently, employees are becoming distrustful of not only…

If major news organizations like Reuters are right, Microsoft will announce layoffs on Wednesday. Their reason is no different than Salesforce’s or Amazon’s — a slowing global economy. CEO Satya Nadella gave a foreshadowing of tough times to come earlier this month. “The next two years are probably going to…

Guest post by Anar Mammadov Finding a way to address rising fuel costs will be one of the biggest challenges that delivery companies face in 2023. Gas prices have come down from the record highs they hit in 2022, but they are still high and expected to climb, with experts…

It’s 2023 and there’s a new set of industry specific words will be used, and overused, in IT. We’re going to learn them one by one. Today’s term: digital immune system Acronym: DIS Definition: A digital immune system (DIS) combines practices and technologies for software design, development, operations and analytics…

by Dr. John Sullivan My research has found that there are five critical action areas that corporations can and should adopt from the world’s most successful football/soccer teams. Those best practice areas are presented below in rank order. Concentrate your recruitment on top-priority positions — the most critical talent lesson…

As companies grapple with ongoing security challenges in their digital environments, providers are making changes to their protocols to provide customers with more secure user experiences. Most recently, Microsoft has introduced major changes to enhance security and flexibility for customers. …

It’s rare that San Francisco software maker Salesforce isn’t a media darling and that cloud bosses everywhere aren’t aspiring to be more like the company’s CEO Marc Benioff. But now even fan boy and Wall St. personality Jim Cramer seems to be worried. “Look, I’m concerned,” he said, adding “I’m…

For most employees in the U.S., generous PTO and flexible or remote work topped the list in 2022. But for the first year, what workers want differs by generation with mental health resources/support topping the list for Millennials (39%) and Gen Z (42%).

The United States Department of Defense kept it secret until today. It turns out that the three US-based cloud vendors plus Oracle were awarded contracts for the Pentagon’s $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) project. The project had initially been valued at $10B and named JEDI, the Joint Enterprise…