Capgemini and Brian Solis, a prominent digital analyst and world renowned author, announce the findings of The Digital Culture Challenge: Closing the Employee-Leadership Gap report. The comprehensive research says that 62 per cent of respondents see corporate culture as one of the biggest hurdles in the journey to becoming a digital organisation. As a result, companies risk
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Three quarters of businesses risk losing 24 hours of data every day
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Staggering survey results show that 72 per cent of businesses are happy to lose over 24 hours’ worth of data after an incident. This means if a widespread Ransomware attack occurred it would cost the UK billions. The results were uncovered through an anonymous survey conducted by Cloud Computing experts virtualDCS in Leeds. Participants were asked
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Team drinks? Not the best way to make workers happier
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Employers are using quick-fix perks in an attempt to boost employee morale as a result of political and economic uncertainty, a new study reveals today. The study shows that more one-off benefits—such as early finishes, company drinks or team lunches—have been offered by employers in the past year. Yet for 43 per cent of those surveyed
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App happy – Business apps are on the up
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Until relatively recently, if you spoke of mobile apps you were usually referring to games and other entertainment, but during the last couple of years business has really seen the benefit of working on the go to the point that more than half (58 per cent) of all business owners now work via mobile apps for
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Poor IT habits putting one in ten SMEs at risk
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A tenth of small business owners and employees regularly share confidential files on personal devices or send documents to personal rather than work emails, as employees still possess poor IT habits. The findings, which show a significant lapse in data security amongst the UK’s five million plus small businesses, were highlighted in research conducted by
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Low cyber IQ contradicts high confidence in UK companies
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Two-thirds (63 per cent) of UK businesses believe that their organisation is highly protected from attempts by outsiders to gain access to their systems and data, according to a survey by Willis Towers Watson. A similar proportion of organisations (66 per cent) maintain that they have the right cyber processes in place to adequately react
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Acceptable discrimination? Tattoos in the workplace
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A study by CIPD course providers, DPG Plc., reveals 64 per cent thought that tattoos were undesirable features in candidates. The study also finds that more than half (54 per cent) of hiring decision makers think that tattoos can have a negative impact on the workplace. The findings highlight the potentially widespread stereotypical judgements facing tattooed candidates
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UK financial decision makers don’t know if they are a victim of fraud
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Bottomline Technologies, a provider of financial technology which helps businesses pay and get paid, launches the 2nd edition of its annual report, the UK Business Payments Barometer: Payments for a new economy, which reveals that fraud and the need for greater cyber-security measures remain high on the agenda for financial decision makers. The UK Business Payments
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What is the most common cause of frustration in the workplace?
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New research reveals what it is that gets British workers most hot under the collar. Nearly half of office workers (47 per cent) cite differences over the office temperature as the aspect of their working environment that causes the most frustration in the workplace, according to a survey of 1,371 UK adults in full or part time
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Pulling a sickie is costing the UK economy £900 million
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Research reveals the staggering cost of small business employees bunking off: a whopping £900 million. breatheHR finds one in seven employees admit to feigning illness and those that do appear to be serial offenders – pulling a sickie on average three times a year! At the end of 2016, SMEs employed 15.7 million people and accounted
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