“Staying on the ball in the payroll game” – How businesses can keep costs down and reduce risk

Payroll is a necessity for organizations. If a business doesn’t pay its staff accurately or on time, employees will quickly become disaffected. It is, however, a technical function and, as such,  it requires specialist expertise. Often, organizations don’t want that expertise in-house. They would rather have an external specialist to deliver it for them.    When running a company, time …

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England fans turn to digital experiences ahead of Denmark semi-final

If there’s one thing England football fans find more annoying than losing (or Harry Kane missing a sitter), it’s poor-performing applications and digital services. These are the conclusions of a new report published by Cisco AppDynamics. The company set out to find if, and how, England fans use digital tools to improve their football-watching experience, polling just over 1,000 fans …

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Demand for DevOps expertize is on the rise

A new report from recruitment platform CodinGame suggests demand for DevOps expertize is on the rise, with six of the ten currently trending technologies relating to the discipline in one way or another. Analyzing more than 300,000 custom-built tests that recruiters conducted on its platform in the first half of the year, CodinGame found that Docker, QA, Linux, Jenkins, AWS …

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UK SMBs racked up billions in sales on Amazon last year

When the pandemic forced people inside, it also sent them online for all kinds of purposes, including shopping. A new report from Amazon shows that UK small and medium-sized businesses earned more than $4.8 billion in export sales last year, representing a 20 percent spike compared to the year before. As reported by City AM, more than 14,000 UK SMBs …

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The post-pandemic B2B buyer puts the pressure on sales teams to modernize quickly

The new landscape of remote sales underscores the centrality of B2B buyers, making clear that to survive in the market, buyer-centricity isn’t an option, but a requirement. But it’s critical to understand that the pandemic has not been a one-off anomaly to the B2B sales ecosystem. Rather, this is a transformation that was inevitable, Covid-19 or not. The traditional model …

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Managers and employees have very different views on returning to the office

Managers and employees have very different views on returning to the office, a new report from audio solutions provider EPOS suggests. In essence, bosses want employees back in the office post-pandemic and employees want to stay at home or adopt a hybrid model. Polling more than 2,500 respondents from the US, UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and Singapore for the …

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Remote workers suffered significant ‘mental distress’ during the pandemic

For all the benefits remote working brings, there’s one major drawback: loneliness. As reported by The Guardian, this is one of the conclusions of a new study just published by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). Based on data from interviews with more than 8,500 people before and during the pandemic, the report claims loneliness has a particularly detrimental …

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Tech vendors have little insight into the modern buying process

At a time when the majority of organizations plan to increase their spending on technology, vendors are mostly clueless about what their customers want and need. This is the conclusion of a new report from analyst firm Gartner, which claims vendor engagement strategies “continue to underdeliver”. Gartner claims there are four types of technology buyers, based on “key behaviors that …

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Getting onboarding right has been one of the big challenges of the pandemic

Most people that switched jobs during the pandemic suffered a poor onboarding experience, a new report from employee engagement and culture app Totem shows. Polling 1,000 UK-based employees that recently started a new job, Totem found that just 15 percent had an excellent onboarding experience, with an additional third (29 percent) having an “average” one. For the rest, the experience …

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