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Jessica Tennant Following last month's launch of the Amsterdam-based workspace concept, Spaces at Atrium on 5th in Sandton, I interviewed Dutch founder Martijn Roordink to find out what it offers the South African workforce besides a place to plug in your laptop, and for his views on this new way of working...read |
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Women are still significantly under-represented in emerging tech, and this imbalance will remain unless organisations, schools and universities work together to change entrenched perceptions about the industry...read | 
The National Registrar for Sex Offenders (NSRO) may not be readily available to the general public but for those who employ people who work with children or disabled people, access is given to protect these vulnerable groups...read | 
The specifics of leading technology innovation vary widely between organisations...read |
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 | Luke Holman Without further interventions, the gender gap in the science workforce is likely to persist for generations, particularly in surgery, computer science, physics and maths... read |
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 | Tyler Golato and Rob Green How will Artificial intelligence (AI) change the way we conduct business in Africa and will it make people redundant or irrelevant when it comes to jobs on the continent? read |
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 | Whether businesses are start-up operations or listed entities, they need to meet specific Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) criteria to conduct business in South Africa, especially with government bodies and public-sector organisations. read |
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 | While many employers recognise the role they have to play in influencing good employee health, most are not employing strategies that best enable these outcomes... read |
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 | The back-breaking jobs in the agriculture and forestry sectors are some of the most dangerous. To reduce health risks, FAO has published two papers mapping ways to improve worker health and safety... read |
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 | Joanne van der Walt If you've ever donated your personal time to help others, you've likely experienced what psychologists call the 'Helper's High', or the feeling of euphoria we experience when we help others. It's addictive and we want to experience it again and again... read |
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 | The Targus NoMoreExcuses Survey has revealed that 63% of employers discourage or don't permit remote working, and of the 37% that do - only 19% of those provide their employees with devices (such as smart phones, tablets and laptops) to enable them to work anywhere... read |
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 | The City of Cape Town's #YouthStartCT challenge, now in its third year, is officially open for entry... read |
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 | Lauren Salt and Tiisetso Rabolao In Clencor Pty Ltd v Mngezana NO and Others, the Labour Appeal Court was required to consider whether the Labour Court erred in coming to a conclusion as to the relevance of evidence not presented at the CCMA read |
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 | The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) has requested for more time for consultations on the public service wage negotiations that are currently underway... read |
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 | Boris Dzhingarov Issued By Monetary Library The modern workplace is seeing a major overhaul, thanks both to new technologies that make new types of work possible, and changing attitudes that challenge norms that have existed for decades... read |
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 | The annual Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW), taking place from 14 to 18 May 2018, is a global event facilitated by the Business Continuity Institute to raise awareness of the latest trends in business continuity... read |
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 | Jon Ratcliffe Bruce Daisley is VP for Europe at Twitter, and runs the Eat Sleep Work Repeat podcast. In the last part of this three-part article, Jon Ratcliffe chatted with him about purpose, well-being, what advice he can give young students entering the industry... read |
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 | Aidan Jones Mthuthuzeli Swartz was removed as acting CEO of Prasa Rail on Tuesday after the interim board deemed his continued leadership "too much of a risk"... read |
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 | An alleged criminal has been spotted and apprehended by the South African Police Services in the Warden (eastern Free State) farming area... read |
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 | Busani Bafana Elections on the continent are increasingly yielding younger leadership... read |
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 | Issued By Edge Growth The Vumela Fund has announced an exciting new equity investment in Giraffe - an automated high-volume recruitment start-up, using mobile technology and matching algorithms... read |
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 | Although the battle for senior leadership talent in Africa is as rife as ever, companies are now less inclined to offer major perks on top of remuneration packages to attract top international executives... read |
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 | Forrester's recent predictions for CIOs working on data and analytics initiatives warn that the capabilities of new technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), require the redesign of operating models... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg Did you know that 98% of your global data travels under the ocean on subsea fibre optic cables, not via satellites? read |
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 | Raleen Bagg With 7.3 billion people to connect with, why is loneliness becoming an epidemic... read |
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