The pandemic has really brought a new perspective to workers desire for a better work-life balance. Many talented employees are being treated like “pop stars” and demand flexible work and because we have such a shortage of top talent the ball is in their court and employers go the extra mile to attract & retain …
Back in 2019 I wrote about the experiment Microsoft was doing in Japan where they found by giving burned out employees more time off (4 day week) productivity increased by 40%. (https://goxglobal.com/4-day-week-led-to-40-productivity-improvements/) Yesterday 70 companies across the UK signed up to trial out this new way of working. Four leading Academic institutions will be measuring …
Thoughts of Cyber Security often does not conjure any expectation of human involvement. However, the human machine interface still is the number one entry point – more than 85% of attacks start with the human factor. COVID has only exacerbated many of the effects and occurrences of Cyber Security threats. As increasingly more of us …
The Covid pandemic has brought with it many changes, amongst them the most significant change that will long impact the fabric of society is the ability to work from home. Flexible working was already making a headway in the Digital age, however with necessity being the mother of invention and Home working required following the …
“The global economy needs 25 million new project professionals by 2030, due to economic growth, an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills and retirement rates, a new report finds. To close the talent gap, 2.3 million project managers and changemakers will be needed to fill these roles every year to keep …
Organisations might face a skills shortage by 2030 for Project managers Read More »
I was shocked when I read a story about Lady Gaga’s dog walker (friend) being shot 4 times in the chest while walking her 3 French bull dogs last week. The muggers kidnapped 2 of her dogs while a 3rd one ran away to hide. Lady Gaga gladly paid the $100K medical bill for the …
Back in 2008 when we started writing a blog for GOX there were 2 articles about on how to effectively manage teams remotely. http://goxglobal.com/managing_teams/ . Those articles were written in the context of an organisation outsourcing IT to a third party based remotely. What we have experienced in the last 6 months takes remote working …
As of April 24th 2020 the Corona Virus has spread around the world to over 200 countries with 2.7 million confirmed cases and tragically 191.000 have died. The world population is 7.8 billion and it grows with 83 million annually. So during the Corona Virus outbreak since Dec 2019 the world population grew by 33.2 …
Covid-19…….The bomb that decimated 195 million jobs and potentially millions of lives Read More »
Many techno visionaries have proposed that a Universal Basic Income is essential to address the fact that Automation and Artificial Intelligence will likely replace most of the mainstream jobs in the future. Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of this as is Mark Zuckerberg, the latter seeing “universal basic income as a way to inspire …
Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Universal Basic Income. Read More »
At GOX we recently completed an IT/Cloud assessment at a leading higher education institution. One of the main challenges was all the old legacy systems and the debilitating high costs required just to keep the lights on leaving limited funds for innovation . The department had over 120 IT employees supporting 20K end users, 1K …