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While many employees are anxious to get "back to work," the truth is, the traditional workplace may never look the same. Many companies like Amazon, Twitter and Microsoft declared their intention to lean into a remote office set-up post-pandemic.

One thing is clear: Remote work is here to stay. Research revealed remote work had a positive impact on overall employee experience, and in a recent FlexJobs survey, 95% of respondents reported a higher productivity level while working remotely.

COVID-19 is ushering in an entirely different future in terms of working life. However, forces such as digitalization have been altering the workforce long before the pandemic.

OECD research suggests that 31% of jobs could be radically transformed as a result of automation. At the same time, specialized jobs are being created elsewhere. These big picture trends mean that many organizations are already preparing for a now-accelerated future.

This infographic from PwC identifies five priorities that can help provide a path forward for a company’s Future of Work plan—strengthened by responses from an ongoing survey of U.S. CFOs on their workforce strategy.

For the past 150 years, work has been characterized by “skill stability.” The social pact in most developed economies was characterized by a “learn, do, and retire” model that covered an average life span of 65 years. Workers could rely on the fact that an educational or technical training investment—from accounting to zoo keeping—combined with a relatively modest effort to keep skills up-to-date, would provide a 30-year return in salary, advancement, and opportunity.

Business leaders all agree: Virtual events are here to stay, and they will continue to grow in popularity over the next few years. As immersive technologies shape the future, what can companies do to attract the attention of their audiences and provide a better online experience?

On a recent panel, Virtual Events Are Here To Stay!, leading event and programming experts discussed the benefits of virtualizing experiences, knocking down barriers, and connecting groups from across the world in unique ways.

A growing body of research points to the growth of the alternative workforce—particularly as it relates to many millennials “opting out” of the traditional workforce. A recent 2017 study reports that overall self-employment is likely to triple to 42 million workers by 2020, with millennials leading the way. The study predicts that 42 percent of all self-employed individuals in the United States are likely to be millennials by 2020.1 As people consider new forms of employment, many organizations are turning toward the growing alternative workforce segment and seeking to hire more workers off their balance sheets as part of a workforce ecosystem.

The term Gig Economy describes the increasing reliance on freelancers and contractors that work on a “per gig basis” rather than having a single employer. This is a trend that has been growing, at least in part, thanks to new technology that facilitates fast and secure transactions, even over distance.

With the Gig Economy growing at a rapid rate, it’s likely that more and more of us will soon work in this manner. In fact, the choice might be made for many of us in the next few years, especially in the wake of Covid.

“There is nothing as important as trifles." - Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” In Memoriam of my brother Andrii Kyiak Though the world is changing each year more and more, there is still one issue that will stay on the agenda for many years to come: disinformation.

Virtual Reality (VR) has been plagued for decades now by a lack of understanding about the problem it’s supposed to solve. There have been at least a few hype cycles over the last few decades, none of which resulted in anything resembling mass adoption. However, VR growth has exploded over the past 18 months and is finally approaching mainstream consumer use. But what about for business use? Does VR have a place outside of niche applications? Does it have a place in the unified communications (UC) suite?

While many organizations had previously embarked on implementing more agile, people-centric and digitally-enabled workplaces, these same enterprises were not sufficiently equipped to deal with the rapid proliferation of COVID-19. After more than a year of adapting to the new normal and transforming how we work, it became evident that employees, workplaces, and the future of work have changed in significant ways that we could not have previously imagined.

While many organizations had previously embarked on implementing more agile, people-centric and digitally-enabled workplaces, these same enterprises were not sufficiently equipped to deal with the rapid proliferation of COVID-19. After more than a year of adapting to the new normal and transforming how we work, it became evident that employees, workplaces, and the future of work have changed in significant ways that we could not have previously imagined.

Any movement, no matter how slight, counts as physical activity and can be good for your health.

We are at a particularly interesting inflection point when it comes to technology. The ongoing pandemic has in fact pushed technology adoption to an all-time high, a tipping point where a critical mass of the workforce not only has access to connectivity, communications and collaboration technology, and the skills to effectively use them.

Today more than ever, as hybrid working becomes a regular part of the workforce’s daily life, both employers and employees are now looking at how technology can make them work better or run the company more efficiently and seamlessly.

For a hybrid workforce, the user experience is going to be central. As much as possible, employees need to feel like they are sitting beside or in the same room as their colleagues, customers and business partners, even when they are joining in remotely.

Antiwork: It's a trend bolstered by younger workers, as Gen Zers make their mark on the labor market. In America, it looks similar to similar youth-led movements against work in other countries, especially China, where young people are "lying flat" by decentering a drive to constantly be more productive and competitive at work, and instead find happiness in their own lives and relaxation.

Here are three ways a distributed workforce will actually help you achieve them.

En este episodio de nuestro podcast entrevistamos a Edgar Martín-Blas, CEO de Virtual Voyagers y uno de los pioneros en el mundo de la realidad virtual.

Hablamos con él acerca de cómo distintos factores parecen estar alineándose en la actualidad para que grandes cantidades de recursos y talento confluyan, procedentes de todo el mundo, con el objetivo de crear “el Metaverso”: la evolución de nuestra actual Internet a la que dejaremos de acceder a través de las ominipresentes pantallas planas, para pasar a hacerlo sumergidos en un mundo tridimensional y en el que la barrera entre lo físico y lo digital se difumina.

En este nuevo mundo virtual en proceso de construcción, hasta hace poco reservado a la ciencia ficción o a algunos pioneros, se están creando ya hoy en día nuevas oportunidades reales de negocio y trabajos hasta ahora inexistentes.

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The just-in-time inventory systems embraced by many businesses led to empty shelves and costly bottlenecks. That’s put a rare spotlight on supply-chain programs, which are attracting more students.…

After a long period of disruption, we’re attempting to establish a ‘new normal’. Companies are implementing their return-to-work strategies. Employee experience is centre stage.

Our report, ‘The Future of Work in 2021’, explores how the pandemic has changed people’s attitudes, beliefs and expectations.

We spoke to 4,000 people to understand their vision of the ‘new normal’ working world.

A staggering 46% of people expect to see significant changes in their open space when they return to work. Those who work in large, open plan offices are 30% more likely to want change.

We also discovered that 73% want to continue working remotely at least one to two days a week.

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Your office or physical space may have been suitable for work prior to the pandemic, but that doesn't mean it will be moving forward.
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El proceso de digitalización de nuestras empresas tiene su principal freno en la digitalización de su talento. Ya que las personas, no pueden o no saben incorporar las nuevas posibilidades tecnológicas al negocio.

Por ello el principal reto de talento de nuestras organizaciones en el comienzo de este nuevo siglo será incorporar habilidades digitales y otras habilidades socio-emocionales relacionadas con las nuevas formas de trabajo. Lo que implica cambios profundos en las habilidades de la mayoría de los profesionales de nuestras organizaciones.

A esta revolución de las habilidades, que se le ha denominado Reskilling, le ha surgido un extraño aliado, el Big Data y los algoritmos de la Inteligencia Artificial.

Today, almost 500 days after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, the world has fundamentally changed: While vaccines have allowed some of us to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel, many continue to struggle.

Almost all of us have faced loss and longing, unanswerable questions and new, daily hardships in the most mundane of tasks. But we’ve also shattered norms, abandoned old routines and rewritten what we thought were the ironclad rules of work. Today, though it is because of a wretched pandemic, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink and reshape how and where we work. (Spoiler alert: The raging debate between office and remote is a false choice—it’s neither.) Sure, we won’t be going into the office every day, but we also won’t abolish our time together; the future of work is more about the digital tools that allow us to balance doing our best work with living our best lives.