CEO Andy Jassy tells Amazon staff that the recent 5-day in-office mandate is not meant to be “a backdoor layoff”
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AWS Tells Staff To Leave If They Don’t Wish To Return To Office
Head of Amazon Web Services reportedly tells staff to leave if they don't like controversial new 5-day-per-week in-office policy
Silicon Reviews: How to Set Up the Perfect Workspace at Home
As businesses continue to create hybrid working spaces, the time spent working from home increases. Therefore, creating a functional space that is efficient and healthy is essential.
Amazon To Penalise Staff Excessively Working From Home
Staff at Amazon who work from home too often are being tracked and will be penalised, e-commerce giant warns
Lack Of Reliable Tech Blamed For Poor Productivity, Apogee Finds
New research from Apogee finds nearly half of staff blamed lack of access to right workplace technology for fuelling negativity
Meta Workers Told To Return To Office Three Days A Week – Report
Facebook parent organisation Meta requires staffers to return to the office three days a week, starting in September
Guaranteeing Employee Loyalty for Organisational Success
Although the Cost of Living (CoL) crisis has left many UK employees under financial pressure, the record-breaking quit rates of the Great Resignation show no signs of slowing down.
Silicon Labs: MX Master 3S Mouse
Designed to complement the MX Keyboard, the MX Mouse shares the same design quality and colour scheme. As a result, they certainly look professional on your desk. Logitech has been evolving the design of its mouse for several decades. In an age where lower profile svelte mice are in vogue, the MX mouse is massive in comparison but speaks volumes about the importance of ergonomics.
Silicon In Focus Podcast: Wellness Tech for Businesses
Dr Oliver Harrison, CEO, Koa Health, outlines the challenges business face, particularly when supporting positive mental health, and how technology can be an integral component of initiatives business leaders can use to ensure their workforces are mentally and physically healthy.
Silicon UK In Focus Podcast: Smart Spaces for Successful Remote...
Learn how the growing tech to create smart homes can help businesses create intelligent working environments in-house and for remote workforces.
Russia To Ban Remote Work Abroad
Upcoming Russian law would ban some professions from remote working outside the country, as hundreds of thousands flee Ukraine conflict
Snapchat Staff Ordered Back To The Office
No more home working. Return to office working after Snap workers instructed to work in the office 80 percent of the time
Coding is Creation: How to Encourage Creativity in Your Devs
When most people picture a developer, chances are they’re not immediately jumping to images of vast creativity and self-expression. More likely, it’s someone sitting hunched at a desk, face illuminated by the blue glow of a screen. But the truth is, any Dev worth their salt is full of creative ideas and potential.
Twitter Staff Brace Amid Reports Musk Will Axe Half Of Workforce
Beleaguered staff at Twitter are bracing themselves for bad news, amid multiple reports Elon Musk will axe half of the workforce
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Unified Communications for a Smart Hybrid Working Future
For many enterprises, their post-pandemic future will see their businesses transformed into agile companies with dispersed workforces. These remote teams need tools to deliver integrated communications services that support hybrid working.
Spain Plans ‘Digital Nomad’ Visa For Remote Workers
Remote workers longing for a sunnier climate, are to be offered a 'digital nomad' visit and tax breaks by Spain
Silicon In Focus Podcast: Your Essential Cybersecurity Tech Stack
Are enterprises evaluating their cybersecurity tech stacks right now? What changes are they looking to make? Discover your business’s essential cybersecurity tech stack. How to defend your enterprise from post-pandemic digital security threats.
Amazon Has No Plans To Make Staff Return To Office
Return to office. CEO Andy Jassy says Amazon will not force corporate staff back into the office anytime soon
Apple Staff Petition Against Return To Office Order
More staff pushback against Apple CEO Tim Cook and his order last week for employees to return to the office three days a week
UK Staff Resisting ‘Big Return’ To The Office, Says...
Remote working to stay? Majority of business leaders are struggling to get staff to return to the office, survey from infinitSpace reveals
Apple Orders Staff Back To Office, Three Days A Week
Memo from Tim Cook tells Apple staff in the Bay area, that from next month, they must come into the office at least three days a week
San Francisco Mayor Admits City Has To Adjust To Remote Working...
Mayor of San Francisco admits her city needs to adjust to new reality that many workers will not return to working in an office
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Beating the Barbarians: How to Protect Your Workers from Cyberattacks
The pandemic forced businesses to make radical changes to how they organised their workforces. A shift to mass remote working is bringing with it a renewed need to ensure robust and flexible digital security systems are in place when remote workers connect to what can be sensitive data.
Elon Musk Return To Office Demand Opposed By German Union
Blunt order by Elon Musk for Tesla staff to return to the office or resign their jobs, faces pushback from trade union in Germany
Elon Musk Tells Tesla Staff To Return To Work Or Resign
'Come back to the office or resign' Elon Musk tells Tesla staff, as the world's richest man rejects remote working as a viable option going forward
Apple Loses Senior Executive Over Remote Working Policy – Report
Insistence by Tim Cook and co that staff work in the offices has resulted in departure of Apple's director of machine learning
Silicon UK In Focus Podcast: Digital Security for Remote Workforces
Learn how businesses can develop robust security for their remote workforces. Also, businesses are re-drawing their digital transformation roadmaps to include IoT, 5G, and Edge Computing, are burgeoning technologies that will touch every enterprise. Discover how security connects to these development strategies?
Apple Staff Unhappy At Return-To-Office Memo
Frustrated Apple staff push back against Tim Cook's demand for corporate staff to return to the office, and threaten to resign
The Silicon UK In Focus Podcast: Beyond Productivity
As some workers move back to their offices, others will create a more hybrid way to work. Is this massive change in how we organise work leading to better productivity? And how can technology help businesses create new hybrid, agile enterprises?
Train to Retain: How Technology Can Deliver World Class Learning and...
As the skills gap continues to be challenging, developing comprehensive learning and development (L&D) programs are essential to retaining a highly skilled workforce.