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Navigating the Digital Workforce: Harnessing Technology for Effective Employee Management

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In an age where remote work is becoming the new norm and digital tools are an integral part of our daily workflow, navigating the intricacies of a digital workforce can be both challenging and thrilling. Gone are the days of water cooler chats and walk-ins to your employees’ offices.

The contemporary workspace is an amalgamation of video calls, instant messaging, and cloud-based collaboration tools. But how can you manage your employees effectively in such an evolving landscape?

Technology, when skillfully utilized, can be your greatest ally in leading a highly engaged and productive team. [Read more…] about Navigating the Digital Workforce: Harnessing Technology for Effective Employee Management

5 Excellent Ways You Can Make Employee Engagement More Accessible

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Adequately engaging and motivating employees has been a core focus for businesses of all sizes since the dawn of corporate history. It’s common knowledge that happy, engaged workers are essential to a thriving business environment.

However, until recently, employee engagement has had relatively low accessibility due to high labor costs or complex workflows. Fortunately, technological advancements have opened up new possibilities that make creating an atmosphere of engagement easier with minimal cost or effort.

In this blog post, we’ll be looking at five excellent ways you can use workflow background information to make employee engagement more accessible than ever before. [Read more…] about 5 Excellent Ways You Can Make Employee Engagement More Accessible

3 Practical Ways to Empower Your Employees

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Employees are a fundamental part of your business’ success and growth. At least, that’s the case if you treat them right and look after them. As part of this, you’ll need to empower your employees.

Once you do, you’ll see various benefits, including:

  • Happier employees
  • Increased productive
  • Higher employee retention
  • Greater commitment to your role

How do you empower your employees, though? Thankfully, this is easier than you’d think, and three practical strategies can be quite helpful with it. If you want to improve your business, it’s worth focusing on them. [Read more…] about 3 Practical Ways to Empower Your Employees

How to Improve Employee Experience Management

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EEM (Employee Experience Management) is a big warm hug for your employees.

From onboarding to career development, it covers everything that makes your team feel appreciated and motivated. Unfortunately, many organizations need help to implement effective EEM strategies, leading to unhappy employees and high turnover rates.

Across the globe, just 64 percent of employees from various industries would recommend their workplace to friends and families. This shows how improving the employee experience of your organization is critical. [Read more…] about How to Improve Employee Experience Management

5 Ways Tech Startups Automate and Improve the Hiring Process

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With tens of thousands of layoffs across the technology sector, there seems to be an abundance of new talent, but this doesn’t mean that tech startups can just snap their fingers and get the perfect employee. Navigating the hiring process can be a challenge, even for experienced entrepreneurs.

Tech startups are competing against big companies with bigger budgets, more established networks, and abundant resources. However, startups can be successful in hiring if they take the right steps to streamline and automate their workflows.

In this article, we’ll show you five ways tech startups can navigate hiring challenges. [Read more…] about 5 Ways Tech Startups Automate and Improve the Hiring Process

5 Rules for Giving the Best Constructive Feedback to Your Employees

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With current attention focused on its flaws and general fallacies, feedback is sometimes seen as a feared and challenging corporate need.

However, despite being a difficult subject, feedback has the ability to alter (for better or worse) the culture, growth, and productivity of any business.

This essay will define feedback, explain how it affects motivation, and establish the groundwork for learning how to give and accept criticism that is both truly helpful and honest. [Read more…] about 5 Rules for Giving the Best Constructive Feedback to Your Employees

Eavesdropping on our thoughts helps create robots like us

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Can intelligence be taught to robots? Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could contribute to creating artificial intelligence machines that think like us.

In Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Tokyo outline how a robot could be taught to navigate through a maze by electrically stimulating a culture of brain nerve cells connected to the machine.

These nerve cells, or neurons, were grown from living cells and acted as the physical reservoir for the computer to construct coherent signals. [Read more…] about Eavesdropping on our thoughts helps create robots like us

Motional expands nuScenes datasets for autonomous driving

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Motional, a startup developing driverless vehicle technology, has expanded nuScenes, the dataset that teaches autonomous vehicles how to safely engage with ever-changing road environments – nuScenes now includes nuScenes-lidarseg and nuImages.

nuScenes, created in March 2019, was the first publicly available dataset of its kind, and pioneered an industry-wide culture of safety-focused data-sharing and collaboration.

It launched as a collection of 1,000 urban “street-scenes” in Boston and Singapore. The scenes, composed of millions of photos and data-points collected from the vehicles’ full sensor suites, were then meticulously hand-annotated, and used to inform and advance machine learning models to build the safest possible self-driving vehicles. [Read more…] about Motional expands nuScenes datasets for autonomous driving

Digital Visual Management: Integration of Human-Centricity and Automation

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By Nicola Olivetti, Lean and Industry 4.0 Program Director, iObeya

Recently, a leading industrial journalist asked for an explanation about the pragmatic integration of human-centricity and automation. Below are my responses.

Question: How can you preserve a human-centric approach to collegial work in a highly automated environment?

Answer: Companies with an authentic Lean culture leverage automation to expand the scope of teams by granting real-time access to valuable information. This allows for important activity and relevant people (experts, partners, suppliers, customers) to co-operate in a horizontal and agile manner. [Read more…] about Digital Visual Management: Integration of Human-Centricity and Automation

Amazon could assimilate Whole Foods workers into robots and drones in some sort of cyber-physical dystopian Borg-like nightmare

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By Lisa Baertlein and Harriet McLeod, Reuters

The merger that shook food and retail stocks on Friday – Amazon’s proposed deal to buy Whole Foods Market – rattled some employees of the upscale grocery chain who expressed fears ranging from layoffs to the loss of their laid-back corporate culture.

The online retailer hopes the $13.7 billion acquisition helps it disrupt the grocery business and expand its real-world store footprint.

Carmen Clark, 37, a six-year employee at a store in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, said some workers worry that Amazon-led automation could lead to job cuts.  [Read more…] about Amazon could assimilate Whole Foods workers into robots and drones in some sort of cyber-physical dystopian Borg-like nightmare