All posts by Jonathan Phillips
In my office, the company gives you cake. It’s a perfunctory cake but served up daily, it keeps employees reasonably happy and productive. Even though employees get cake every day, they barely notice it and never sing its praises. They probably think that everyone gets [read more]
In under 18 months, one of the most fundamental changes to the way businesses handle data — the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — will come into application. But how will this new legislation impact intranet and digital workplace teams? Today, we take a look [read more]
In November, the BBC ran a story about Pivotal Software who start their day with a team huddle at 09:06. In it, Rob Mee their Chief Executive Officer discusses some of the thinking behind their precise timings and in doing so highlights an obvious truth: [read more]
In our first post on Workplace by Facebook, Sharon shared a whistle-stop tour of the basics of the system. It’ll be very familiar – it’s the Facebook system that 1.5billion of us use regularly, but filled with the enterprise content and, eventually, apps. So let’s [read more]
There are two choices for the last post of the year. Some years we’ve opted for the ‘predictions’ post: a sharp look at the year ahead, using our deep industry knowledge to draw attention to the key trends for 2017. As Niels Bohr said, “Predictions [read more]
Since the announcement of Microsoft’s deal to purchase LinkedIn for $26bn in June, there has been significant interest in how these two behemoths would come together. In a quick post last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared news of the early priorities. We take a look [read more]
Much hot air, waffle and expert thought-leadership has been shared on the topic of Digital Workplaces. Despite a multitude of definitions, including my own, there are some common themes: it’s the tools and services that an employee needs to do their job. It’s not every day [read more]
Job titles are funny things and almost never describe what we do, but they say something about the dominant narratives in the organisations we work in. I have been having a close look at the 400 job titles of people who attended or are going [read more]
We have long discussed why entering awards is the best thing for your career, but still a lot of us out there don’t put our excellent work forward. Today’s guest post, from Steve Bynghall, implores all of you to exhibit your work! In his book [read more]
It’s Back to the Future Day – no better time for us to look into our crystal balls and think about the trends and topics that we’ll be using in years to come. Unlike Marty and Doc, we’re not (yet) brave enough to look 30 [read more]
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