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The pandemic and its negative impact on workplace mental health

Mar 28, 2022

In the mostly uncharted pandemic-induced hybrid home and office work paradigm, keeping employees happy, healthy, and motivated is among the single biggest collective priorities for senior executives. says Vukani Mngxati CEO of Accenture in Africa. And he says, “Are we...

Tackling year-end tax for SMEs

Feb 18, 2022

Tax paperwork can become overwhelming for anyone, let alone SME owners who tend to juggle many balls simultaneously. As a result, such admin tasks fall lower down on the list of priorities. By Chwayita Deliwe, director at CN Outsourced Finance Ensuring that you file...

Are websites heading towards their Kodak moment?

Feb 18, 2022

For over a hundred years, Kodak held a near-monopoly on the manufacture of cameras and photo production. In 2007, the introduction of the digital camera resulted in film camera sales falling to almost zero, which led to the company filing for bankruptcy in January...

A seismic shift in driving modern employee experiences

Feb 18, 2022

There’s a new kid on the block. Born as a result of the fast-paced digital transformation and the flexible, remote working models that’s come about in the last 18-24 months – and it’s changing the face of the future of work as we know it. Haidi Nossair, senior...

Intel outlines roadmap and milestones

Feb 18, 2022

Intel has shared long-term plans to capitalise on transformative growth during an era of unprecedented demand for semiconductors. At Intel’s 2022 Investor Meeting, CEO Pat Gelsinger and Intel’s business leaders outlined key elements of the company’s strategy and path...

Towards an ecosystem in which SA startups can thrive

Feb 18, 2022

Reducing red tape, specialist visas, and reviewing the labour market regulations are steps in the right direction to create a thriving startup ecosystem. That’s the word from Matsi Modise, steering committee chairperson of the South African Startup Act Movement. He...

Slower economy is the top regional threat

Feb 18, 2022

In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic cut a deadly swathe across the world, only 27 countries in the world experienced economic growth. Global economic growth dropped from an annual rate of –3,4% to –7,6%. Concerns for a stalled economic recovery are reflected in...

The Great Resignation reshapes employee relations

Feb 8, 2022

The world is buzzing with anecdotal evidence of what has been called The Great Resignation – the Covid-19 lockdown-driven reassessment by individuals of the meaning of work in their lives. 2022 is shaping up to be a year of reckoning where employees and organisations...

The skills conundrum 2022

Feb 8, 2022

The skills challenge in Africa remains an obstacle to growth. In South Africa, the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) was established in 2010 as a way of connecting people to skills development and to try and ‘address the bottlenecks’. This issue has also been...

Continuous skills development vital for supply chain success

Feb 8, 2022

Supply chain management has never been more critical than it is today, in an increasingly global, challenging, complex and dynamic business environment. “Global supply chains have faced unprecedented challenges amid the COVID-19 crisis, and the effects will be felt...

2022: the year that tech gets human

Feb 8, 2022

Until recently, digital transformation was mistakenly assumed to be a matter of tagging the word ‘tech’ to the end of practically any industry, throwing some technology at it, and sitting back and waiting for disruption to happen. By Marius Botha, group CEO of aYo...

Mobile trends we’re watching in 2022

Feb 8, 2022

Looking ahead, the technological advances we can expect to see in 2022 will be a logical continuation of everything that has happened in 2021, but the impact of the pandemic will undoubtedly remain. By Nick Durrant, CEO of Bluegrass Digital When you look around right...

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