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GUEST OPINION by Bradley Pulford, Managing Director at HP Australia, and New Zealand: In just a few short years, our collective relationship with work has changed drastically. We recently released our first ever Work Relationship Index, revealing some interesting truths about how people view their own relationship to work, including the expectations they have of their bosses, and ultimately; how happy they are at work. The long and the short of it is; we want more from our jobs, and especially our bosses.

Our shared experience over the past two years has fundamentally transformed not only the way we work but the ways in which we work. Business leaders around the world are responding to phenomena like quiet quitting, the great resignation, and a total step change in employee expectations while balancing business outcomes in a fluid and unpredictable economy.

Three years into the pandemic, businesses are struggling to keep up with the changes and challenges they face. Hybrid working is still proving to be complex and both employers and employees are trying to figure out how to adapt their practices to best suit everyone's needs.

GUEST OPINION by Perimeter 81: Our world is becoming more and more reliant on technology. It shapes how we work, how we communicate and how we complete our day to day tasks. Just as we need to know how to keep ourselves safe in the physical world, we also need to know how to stay safe online.

Building, managing and global distributed workforces support company Remote has announced platform and service enhancements which it says enable greater flexibility in where employees work and how they are paid.

How the world worked in 2021 and what's in store for the future is the subject of HubSpot's 2022 Hybrid Work Report, so are we in for a Future Shock as Alvin Toffler predicted, or was the pandemic the biggest unexpected shock of them all?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Although the spectre of Omicron hovers, people are nevertheless returning to work in a hybrid fashion, with the demand for modern, fast and fluid videoconferencing experiences never greater, whether at home, at work, or other remote working scenarios, so what are the trends for a world on the mend?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Although the spectre of Omicron hovers, people are nevertheless returning to work in a hybrid fashion, with the demand for modern, fast and fluid videoconferencing experiences never greater, whether at home, at work, or other remote working scenarios, so what are the trends for a world on the mend?

Australia’s Cyber Security Growth Network AustCyber has relaunched AUCyberExplorer, an interactive tool that tracks the state of the Australian cyber security job market by providing detailed, actionable data about job supply and demand.

GUEST RESEARCH: A new study has revealed almost half of Australians (48%) won’t work for a business that doesn’t address climate change while seven out of eight Australians think businesses need to do more to take action on climate change. 

Global document productivity software company Nitro Software has released research which it says shows that while there is some desire to return to the office, most employees want to continue working from home (WFH) in some capacity and expect employers to offer remote work options post-pandemic.

Offices and other workplaces are re-opening, but there is a 'third way' between working in the workplace and working at home.

'The 20th edition of the Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook 2020-2024 report from PwC has arrived, showing that to the end of December 2020, total Australian advertising spend contracted by 8.0% to A$15.4 billion, and consumer spend dropped by 1.9% to A$42.5 billion - with plenty more detail to share, so read on!

GUEST OPINION by Peter O’Connor, Vice President – Sales, Asia Pacific, Snowflake:  As the amount of digital data in the world continues to grow exponentially, extracting meaning from it is becoming an increasingly challenging task.

Three in five Australian workers are open to their employer mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace, according to the June quarter Employee Sentiment Index (ESI) from cloud-based HR provider Elmo Software.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and Country Manager – Australia and New Zealand at Zscaler: When the global pandemic turned the world of work on its head in early 2020, many organisations had to radically rethink their methods of operation.

Equinix global report reveals changing working patterns spark a surge in digital infrastructure investment.

Australian-listed Macquarie Telecom Group has been recognised as one of the top places to work in Australia in the annual global Best Places to Work List, for fostering an “inclusive workforce” and its Heartbeat customer service program.

GUEST OPINION by Lucas Salter, General Manager ANZ and APJ, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies: Keeping an organisation running remotely brings challenges. Some are well documented - insert your videoconferencing call horror story here - but one of the biggest and underappreciated, is managing protecting, and recovering data from traditional and modern applications across core data centres, edge locations and public clouds.

Complaints about phone and Internet services decreased 4% in the last financial year ending 30 June 2020, but despite the drop residential consumers and small businesses still made 127,151 complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman over the 12-months, according to the TIO’s 2019-20 annual report.