This is how COVID-19 has impacted workers’ lives around the world
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Stress, anxiety and loneliness have increased among working people, according to a new survey, underscoring the ongoing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic
Bolstered by pandemic, tech titans face growing scrutiny
By: EBR | Monday, December 28, 2020
Accelerating the transition to an ever more digital existence, the coronavirus pandemic has tightened tech giants’ grip on billions of customers’ lives
For a true economic recovery, small businesses will need more support
By: EBR | Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Tech has been deployed throughout the pandemic to keep economies going and to keep people connected, healthy and safe
Doing Good: Where Sustainable Investing Gets It Wrong
By: EBR | Thursday, December 17, 2020
Annoying jargon exists in all business disciplines. Responsible Investor recently asked its readers for the words they would like to see banished from the lexicon of sustainable finance
EU companies ready to take on twin green, digital transitions
By: EBR | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
EU employers are ready to switch gear and accelerate the roll-out of the green and digital transitions
How Operations Can Stop Labour Violations Before They Happen
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 15, 2020
For decades, policymakers and corporate CSR departments have undertaken sustained, sincere efforts to clamp down on labour abuses such as slavery, perilous working conditions and wage theft
Is There a Scientific Formula For Start-up Success?
By: EBR | Monday, December 14, 2020
Even in the best of times, starting a business is like running a marathon with the odds stacked against you
5 traits of organizations that use tech responsibly
By: EBR | Friday, December 11, 2020
As new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and blockchain become mainstream, and their practical uses more pervasive, myriad new business opportunities will be created
How Start-ups in Emerging Markets Succeed Despite Scarcity
By: EBR | Friday, December 11, 2020
2019 was a record year of venture capital funding for start-ups in emerging economies from Latin America, Africa to Southeast Asia
The New Business Models (and Jobs) in Blockchain
By: EBR | Thursday, December 3, 2020
Given the Bitcoin price craze in the face of the morose economy during the Covid-19 pandemic, one may assume that the distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain bubble is ready to burst once again
How secure is your data? 3 predictions and 3 protections in the age of hybrid work
By: EBR | Friday, November 27, 2020
Covid-19 introduced a paradigm shift in working culture. The new era of the “hybrid employee” has required a recalibration of how organizations provide secure, productive and digitally enabled environments for their employees
Making the Shift to Digital Sales in B2B
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 24, 2020
A new, digital era of B2B sales and marketing is upon us. It’s driven by corporate customer demand for online access to their suppliers’ offerings and expertise
Business groups clash over EU’s 2030 climate goal
By: EBR | Monday, November 23, 2020
Europe’s largest employer’s association, BusinessEurope, has questioned “the value and credibility” of the economic analysis underpinning the EU’s proposed climate target plan for 2030, triggering an immediate backlash from pro-climate corporate groups
Four Steps to Business Model Innovation
By: EBR | Thursday, November 19, 2020
In the current era of disruption, recently accelerated by the pandemic, firms must be in command of cutting-edge technologies; otherwise, they face potentially mortal danger
4 things that will redefine the way we work by 2025
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Where previous calendars measured time according to Before Christ and Anno Domini, the coronavirus outbreak has revealed a new sense of time. This is the beginning of a new epoch
Foundations for Gender Balance Can Be Built at Home
By: EBR | Friday, November 13, 2020
In the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerned observers warned that although the physical toll of the virus on men is higher, women would suffer more social and economic devastation
Why empathy is good for business – and how to improve it
By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Empathy, defined as the ability to detect other people’s feelings, constitutes the basis for quality human relationships; however, it is often a capacity we are unable to exploit, mostly due to cultural constraints
Here’s why the business of sustainability has come of age
By: EBR | Thursday, November 5, 2020
With a sharper corporate focus on achieving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impact, the appetite for investments that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges has grown steadily in recent years
Don’t fear AI. It will lead to long-term job growth
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated technological advances and the automation of many routine tasks – from contactless cashiers to robots delivering packages
The number of permanent remote workers is set to double in 2021
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The percentage of workers around the world that is permanently working from home is expected to double in 2021 as productivity has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey from U.S.-based Enterprise Technology Research (ETR)
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