The always-on nature of work has contributed to a decline in annual leave usage. Unused holiday time not only hurts the economy due to lower holiday spend, it perpetuates a culture of burnout, ultimately reducing employee productivity. The antidote to this is for employers to create a competitive annual leave policy and also a work culture that encourages and supports time o...

Creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is essential in order to compete for top talent amidst changing demographics. This infographic points to the business benefits of diversity and illustrates how the working population is changing in terms of gender, age, race and ethnicity. Click Here to Download

Are you doing everything you can to retain your current employees? In an increasingly tight market, organisations should be implementing solid retention strategies that include creating a great culture, offering development opportunities and competitive pay rises.

Changes to Anticipate with Enterprise DevOps DevOps in a larger, mature organisation is different from its small and brave counterparts. For a start, it is far harder to embrace change. So when a movement like DevOps comes along, with its commitment to agile, it can be hard to re-organise and re-engineer processes that have been used to classic IT. As each organisation has a...

One of the most common questions we get asked is: 'What are the most desired skills for the IT industry?' Here are some of what we believe to be the most in-demand IT skills so far this year: /uploads/library/files/Top%20IT%20Skills%20SlideShare.pdf

The UK relies heavily on the immigration of EU citizens to make-up its workforce. Over 2 million EU nationals work in Britain and over a fifth of UK start-ups are led by EU entrepreneurs. Brexit may mean the end of free movement of EU citizens as restrictions on immigration are put in place. This could, in turn, widen the skills shortage gap and force the upskilling and retr...

To be honest, I hate using the word digital. To me saying that a company is digital is about as useful as saying it runs on electricity. It’s what you do with digital technology to achieve your organization's goals that makes the difference. Digital should be part of the DNA of the organization and not a department, channel or role. Here are 5 simple tips will help drive suc...

First things first, this is not an attempt to excuse what Jamie did. Just an examination of some of the factors that might have been at play and what we can learn to stop ourselves from reacting badly to situations. I'm probably not the only one who was quite surprised to see Jamie Carragher in the media for the spitting incident which has at least temporarily stopped his ca...

DevOps can drive process benefits to an enterprise For those of you that have been stuck under a rock for the last few years, DevOps is a way of developing, deploying and supporting applications in the most responsive and coordinated way possible. Once it becomes established on a running product, the pay-off is the ability to take a business idea or technical change and turn...

I love Google Translate. It was in August 2016, in Rio de Janiero, when our eyes first truly met. I picked up Google Translate on my iPhone at the 2016 Olympics, and it turned out to be a lifesaver. Alone in the city, it allowed me to get around the city without having to depend on anyone for help or wave my arms around helplessly. At Rio 2016, all the infrastructure and tra...