Contra wants to be the community that independent workers are missing

Whether you’re working on something new according to your Twitter bio, or self-employed, according to your LinkedIn bio, founder Ben Huffman thinks his platform, Contra, will be the best way for independent workers to explain and monetize what they are working on. Contra is a platform that wants professionals to create profiles that show project-based identities, versus a role-based identity that one would show on LinkedIn. It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge...
Tags: Freelancing, Startups, TC, Facebook, New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Linkedin, Future Of Work, Tech, Shopify, Cowboy Ventures, Upwork, Huffman, Contra, Personnel

Evaluating if Permanent Remote Work is Worth It

  Evaluating if Permanent Remote Work is Worth It The pandemic has left an indelible mark on the priorities of many industries. There are always going to be negative consequences to a public health emergency, but it also allows businesses to examine whether their methods of working really are best suited to them, their customers, […]
Tags: Featured, News, Future Of Work, Company Culture, Tech, Remote Work, Recruiting, Employee Engagement, Guest Post, Hiring, Staffing, Branding, Onboarding, Blog Posts

[PODCAST] Oracle – The New World of Work Includes Mental Health With Emily He

Oracle – The New World of Work Includes Mental Health With Emily He Today we have Emily He of Oracle on the show, and we are going to talk about the new world of work, which includes mental health. And, thank goodness for that, especially coming out of one of the worst years ever. Introductions […]
Tags: Technology, Featured, News, Podcasts, Future Of Work, Tech, HR, Branding, Blog Posts, Hr Technology, RecruitingDaily Podcast, Work/Life Balance, Employee Wellbeing, RecruitingLive! with William Tincup, HCM technology

Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere - while still paying San Francisco and New York salaries

Spotify's new Work-From-Anywhere program gives employees control over where they want to work. Britta Pedersen/picture alliance via Getty Images On Friday, Spotify announced its Work-From-Anywhere program.  The program lets employees choose to work at an office, remotely, or at a coworking space. Spotify's head of diversity and inclusion says the initiative will promote equity. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. On Friday, Spotify announced its new work-from-home p...
Tags: Facebook, Spotify, New York, Singapore, Careers, San Francisco, Trends, Future Of Work, Remote Work, Jack Dorsey, Cnet, Stockholm, Nordic, New York London, Robinson, Spotify Spotify

Radical Flexibility: The Great Reawakening

This three-part series looks at what’s next for human resources and talent acquisition. Part one makes a case for 2021 as HR’s moment of radical praxis, part two for rebuilding the relationship with TA, and part three for recentering what functions as the heart of organizations.   Radical Flexibility: The Great Reawakening If we’ve learned […]
Tags: Featured, News, Future Of Work, Communication, Company Culture, Remote Work, Recruiting, HR, Guest Post, Branding, Blog Posts, Work/Life Balance

Salesforce says 'the 9-to-5 workday is dead,' and will give employees 3 choices for how and where they want to work - including the option to work from home forever

Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. Stephen Lam/Getty Images Salesforce announced it will let employees choose three different ways of working going forward. The "flex" option will allow employees to come into the office up to three days per week.  Other employees will work remotely full-time, while a small subset will come in every day.  Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Salesforce on Tuesday announced that its employees will have the option to work remotely full-time...
Tags: Enterprise, US, San Francisco, Trends, Future Of Work, Silicon Valley, The New York Times, Salesforce, North America, Marc Benioff, Salesforce Tower, Tech Insider, Avery Hartmans, Hyder, Brent Hyder, Coronavirus

Salesforce says 'the 9-to-5 workday is dead,' and will provide 3 new ways for employees to work - including the possibility of working from home forever

Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. Stephen Lam/Getty Images Salesforce announced it will offer three different ways of working going forward. The "flex" option will allow employees to come into the office up to three days per week.  Other employees will work remotely full-time, while a small subset will come in every day.  Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Salesforce on Tuesday announced that its employees will have the option to work remotely full-time, even when it'...
Tags: Enterprise, US, San Francisco, Trends, Future Of Work, Silicon Valley, The New York Times, Salesforce, North America, Marc Benioff, Salesforce Tower, Tech Insider, Avery Hartmans, Hyder, Brent Hyder, Coronavirus

Radical Praxis: What Happens When HR Gets Rehired?

This three-part series looks at what’s next for human resources and talent acquisition. Part one makes a case for 2021 as HR’s moment of radical praxis, part two for rebuilding the relationship with TA, and part three for recentering what functions as the heart of organizations. Radical Praxis: What Happens When HR Gets Rehired? By […]
Tags: Motivation, Featured, Leadership, News, Future Of Work, Company Culture, Tech, Recruiting, Employee Engagement, HR, Guest Post, Hiring, Staffing, Branding, Blog Posts, Employee Wellbeing

Leadership in an age of abundance

Automation transforms the priorities - and therefore the skills required of - the leaders in a new age of abundance. By offering limitless low-cost labour it provides: 1. Immediate abundance of capacity. 2. Learned abundance of capability. Before the opportunity to automate - particularly the opportunity to engage ML/AI-infused automation - successful management was all about control and direction of constrained and relatively fixed capacities and capabilities. These primarily...
Tags: Publishing, Leadership, Digital, Future Of Work, Skills, Empathy, Automation, Insight, Globalization, Imagination, Abundance, David Cushman, Raphael Rychetsky, Native Automation

Young workers may benefit the most from working in an office instead of from home

Inside Creative House/Getty Images Many Gen Z workers and millennials are enjoying the perks of working from home amid the pandemic, but recent surveys show professionals who are still early in their careers may benefit from working in an office. Two separate workplace surveys by Nintex and PwC, reported on by Fast Company, highlight how young workers are feeling less productive from home. The Nintex survey found that although most respondents were more productive than they expected durin...
Tags: Jobs, Office, Careers, Trends, Future Of Work, Remote Work, Pwc, Fast Company, Forbes, Nintex, Madison Hoff, Dustin Grosse

HR Predictions: The Top 3 Recruiting Trends for 2021

HR Predictions: The Top 3 Recruiting Trends for 2021 COVID-19 disrupted the workforce, unlike anything we have experienced previously. Social justice and DEI, unemployment, public health issues, and remote work became just a few of the many headlines of 2020 that have shaped the way we work and interact today. We are at an inflection […]
Tags: Technology, Featured, News, Future Of Work, Tech, Remote Work, Recruiting, Guest Post, Hiring, Staffing, Branding, Blog Posts, Hr Technology, Candidate Experience, Talent Acquisition, Diversity and Inclusion

How to prepare for the hybrid workplace

Work isn’t going back to the way it was before the pandemic. 72% of employees reported that they want the freedom to work from home post-pandemic in a recent survey of 2,000+ office workers in 10 countries. So what happens to the office? It’s going hybrid. Please join JLL (a member of the GEM) on January 27 at 11 AM PST (tomorrow), for a discussion with a panel of experts as they share research and unpack the effects that the new hybrid workplace has — and will continue to have — on corporate re...
Tags: Future Of Work, Radio, JLL, Events & Conferences

How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup

One big theme in tech right now is the rise of services to help us keep working through lockdowns, office closures, and other Covid-19 restrictions. The “future of work” — cloud services, communications, productivity apps — has become “the way we work now.” And companies that have identified ways to help with this are seeing a boom. Today comes news from a startup that has been a part of that trend: Calendly, a popular cloud-based service that people use to set up and confirm meeting times with ...
Tags: Google, Productivity, TC, Enterprise, Microsoft, Funding, Nigeria, San Francisco, Future Of Work, Tech, Atlanta, Unilever, Ukraine, Scheduling, Ohio, Ibm

Work trips are making a $5 billion comeback

Would you bet millions of dollars on a corporate travel comeback? Doesn’t matter. Andreessen Horowitz, Addition and Elad Gil are anyways. This week, the trio led a nine-figure financing round in TripActions, a software company that helps other companies book and manage corporate travel. But the news is (always) more than the number. I see TripActions’ growth as a signal to travel sector startups, which faced the brunt of the pandemic’s impact. We’ve heard the market is emerging again, but the fa...
Tags: TC, Asia, Europe, Media, Israel, Future Of Work, Tech, Andreessen Horowitz, Biden, Obvious Ventures, Plaid, Fintech, Loon, Alex Wilhelm, Bryce Durbin, ECL

Glassdoor CEO: How to attract the best talent in 2021

Christian Sutherland-Wong is the chief executive of Glassdoor. Glassdoor Christian Sutherland-Wong become the CEO of Glassdoor in January 2020. He talked to Business Insider about what he's learned, and what's changed, since he stepped into the top job. "The data is pretty clear that you can't just get away with being an average employer or a bad employer, thinking money solves all evils," he said. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Christian Sutherland-Wong stepped into t...
Tags: Leadership, Jobs, Trends, Strategy, Future Of Work, Malaysia, Times, Glassdoor, Robert, Milton Friedman, Drake Baer, Robert Hohman, Marin California, Labor Markets, Christian Sutherland Wong, Sutherland Wong

The Analyst Cam: Sapient Insights Group 2020-2021 HR Systems Survey

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Stacey Harris, Chief Research Officer and Managing Partner at Sapient Insights Group presented highlights... [Author: vinnie]
Tags: Cloud Computing, Trends, Future Of Work, SaaS, Vinnie, Stacey Harris, Analyst Cam, Sapient Insights Group

The future of work will be 'hot offices' where employees can reserve a desk, according to Amazon's cloud boss

Amazon headquarters. Elaine Thompson/AP The future of work will be "hot offices" where employees reserve a desk, AWS CEO Andy Jassy told CNBC. Jassy, who oversees Amazon's cloud business, said he expects that once offices can safely reopen, people will likely adopt a hybrid model rather than being in an office 100% of the time.  The coronavirus pandemic has affected Amazon's approach to meetings as well as hiring: The company is more open to remote employees now than it was in the past, Ja...
Tags: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Trends, Future Of Work, Aws, Jeff Bezos, Seattle, Cnbc, Elaine Thompson, Andy Jassy, Amazon Headquarters, Tech Insider, Jassy, Avery Hartmans, Jon Fortt

The Pandemic’s Equity Impact, Part 2: The CEO Opportunity

The Pandemic’s Equity Impact, Part 2: The CEO Opportunity This two-part series looks at the impact of the pandemic on women’s careers and workplace equity. Part one spotlights recent findings and recommendations. Part two offers actionable insights and practical advice for leaders.  The first part of this series leveraged research from the Rutgers Center for […]
Tags: Featured, News, Employment, Trends, Future Of Work, Communication, Company Culture, Recruiting, HR, Hiring, Branding, Blog Posts, Diversity and Inclusion, COVID-19, Rutgers Center

The Analyst Cam: Workday Talent Marketplace

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. David Somers, GM, Talent Optimization at Workday (and co-founder of Rallyteam that Workday acquired)... [Author: vinnie]
Tags: Trends, Future Of Work, Vinnie, David Somers, Rallyteam, Analyst Cam

The Analyst Cam: Constellation Research CIO Priorities for 2021

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. The weekly Burning Platform with Brian Sommer is taking a break, so it was... [Author: vinnie]
Tags: Trends, Future Of Work, Vinnie, Brian Sommer, Digital Transformations, Analyst Cam

Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market

In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world’s last dance with spontaneity. The pre-pandemic past is rife with conferences, running into co-workers and post-work happy hours. Now, as companies such as Microsoft and Twitter declare remote work as the future, the very existence of physical offices is unclear for the long-term. Yet, to a growing number of entrepreneurs in the Valley, when one physical door closes, a virtual one opens. With the goal of making remote work more spontaneous, there ...
Tags: Apple, Startups, TC, Uber, Twitter, Microsoft, Future Of Work, Tech, Remote Work, Minecraft, Gumroad, Branch, Josh Elman, Travis Scott, Dayton, Valley

Bill Gates says in-person meetings aren't the 'gold standard' anymore and that 50% of business travel will go away even after pandemic

Bill Gates. Hou Yu/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images Bill Gates is predicting that business travel and office work won't return to pre-pandemic levels in the future.  "My prediction would be that over 50% of business travel and over 30% of days in the office will go away," Gates said at The New York Times DealBook conference on Tuesday.  In-person business meetings won't be the "gold standard" anymore, Gates said, predicting that most companies will have a "very high threshold" for d...
Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Trends, Future Of Work, Bank Of America, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Business Travel, Gates, Corporate Travel, Sorkin, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Tech Insider, New York Times Dealbook, Return To Work

21 Tips to Help Bankers Ace Remote Selling (and Avoid WFH Disasters)

In the work-from-home reality, banks and credit unions that help employees understand what to do, and not do, will succeed in a video world. The post 21 Tips to Help Bankers Ace Remote Selling (and Avoid WFH Disasters) appeared first on The Financial Brand.
Tags: Video, Finance, Future Of Work, Digital Marketing, Sales Strategies, Telecommute, Technology Strategies

Distributed working can drive a personalised approach to employee experience

Optimising employee experience for business benefit is an emergent trend of our increasingly digitally-connected but physically distributed work forces.Gartner's Future of Work Trends - with data gathered in April this year - already identified 16% of employers admitted to increasing the gathering of passive employee data collection. For example: virtual logging/clocking in and out; computer and phone use; use of email, internal communication and chats; and location or movement.The data is avai...
Tags: Publishing, Future Of Work, Gartner, Data Collection, Data Analysis, User Experience Design, Employee Experience, David Cushman, Charles Deluvio, Distributed Working

What we’ve learned about working from home 7 months into the pandemic

When large parts of the world were shutting down in March, we really didn’t know how we would move massive numbers of employees used to working in the office to work from home. In early March, I wrote a piece on how to prepare for such an eventuality, speaking to several experts who had a background in the software and other tooling that would be involved. But the shift involved so much more than the mechanics of working at home. We were making this transition during a pandemic that was forcing ...
Tags: Work From Home, TC, Cloud, Enterprise, Future Of Work, Tech, Remote Work, Mangia, COVID-19, Karen Mangia

The pandemic has changed leadership forever — here’s how to be good at it

Well before there was even a whiff of coronavirus, the attributes that were predicted to be the most important for business leaders by 2030 were the ability to be innovative, adaptive to change, and collaborative across the business. With the sudden curveball thrown by the pandemic this year, businesses have had to adapt the way they operate almost overnight, and greater pressure and responsibility has been put on the shoulders of leaders in the workplace. It became clear that those predicted qu...
Tags: Startups, Future Of Work, World, Future of Finance

Culture and identify in the new future of work

Preparing for the new context of the Future of Work goes beyond the challenge of managing our connections and enabling old processes. In previous discussions I have identified the limitations of Covid19 innovation to date in this space: A backlog clearing exercise in which the old 'important but not urgent' list suddenly became tagged 'urgent' too: A huge outpouring of effort to build what our experience of old contexts had suggested we need. The context changed with Covid19 - making dis...
Tags: Publishing, Identity, Digital, Future Of Work, Culture, Innovation, Mvp, David Cushman, Carson Arias

Microsoft is extending its remote-work policy to July 2021 'at the earliest'

Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Stephen Brashear Microsoft just extended remote work to July 6, 2021 at the earliest in the US. ZDNet first reported the story.  Microsoft closed offices in March to slow the spread of COVID-19, and had originally said employees would remain at home until October. Google, Facebook, and Amazon also announced they wouldn't require employees in the office until summer 2021. Are you a Microsoft employee? Contact this reporter via the encrypted mes...
Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, News, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, US, Trends, Strategy, Future Of Work, Tech, Remote Work, Employees, Tim Cook, Signal

Virtual Virtuosos And The Masters Of Virtual Work

Virtual Virtuosos And The Masters Of Virtual Work For 25 years I have been finding top-performing, niche talent. Most of that time has been supporting global financial institutions along with several visionaries in fintech. I have sourced professionals in just about all functions and professional levels-from high revenue sales leaders, to the most technically innovative […]
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Pants Are Not Optional | Keeping Productivity & Company Culture Alive

ABC news reporter Will Reeve appeared on Good Morning America sans pants – not realizing the audience had a full view. Non-profit department head Lizet Ocampo shared that her boss “turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can’t figure out how to turn the setting off.”  The UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted the Zoom code to his cabinet meeting to the general public. It’s safe to say that we’re all adjusting to the full-staff remote work set-up that CO...
Tags: Productivity, Work From Home, UK, Microsoft, Abc, Marketing, Future Of Work, Company Culture, Remote Work, Switzerland, Boris Johnson, Forbes, Miró, Will Reeve, Lizet Ocampo