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Technology-related gains could triple South Africa's productivity growth, more than double growth in per capita income, and add more than a percentage point to its real GDP growth rate over the next decade - according to a new report on The Future of Work in South Africa: Digitisation, productivity and job creation from McKinsey & Company... Read
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Employee Wellness
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The use of anti-depressants in South Africa has increased by more than 50% over the last five years. This, together with the classification of some mental illnesses as disabilities, is resulting in organisations having to rethink how they approach the recruitment process... Read
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Management
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DAVID LOXTON
Boundaries around ethics are becoming increasingly blurred, and it's not unusual for people to work situations to their own advantage. Your best defence in such a milieu is a solid legal foundation - and lots of preparation... Read
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The world has changed considerably since Regus set up its first flexible office space back in the late eighties... Read
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Skills Development & Training
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AECOM's Kim Timm has been named Mentor of the Year at the Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) Aon Engineering Excellence Awards... Read
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The University of Johannesburg (UJ) recently introduced a high-tech platform to drive engagement among its alumni, with the aim of enabling graduates to leverage on the power of mentoring services that the University provides... Read
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Talent Acquisition
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Even with highly skilled and trained human resources (HR) personnel, it is possible for unsavoury employees to get through the cracks of the hiring process. So how do companies strengthen their hiring process, while ensuring that those currently hired by the company aren't a threat...? Read
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Johnson & Johnson announced the winners of the Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0... Read
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African startups Shopit, Exportunity and Wakulima from South Africa, Benin and Tanzania respectively, emerged the winners of the Nestlé Research and Development sub-Saharan innovation challenge... Read
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South Africa's National Development Plan (NDP) expresses an important aspiration: by 2030, 90% of all jobs should be created by small, medium and micro enterprises... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
AfricArena is a conference that showcases Africa's best startups and innovators in front of an audience of local and international investors looking for world-class talent... Read
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Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur is a female youth empowerment, entrepreneurship and acceleration programme aimed at young girls in high school... Read
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YORK ZUCCHI
Without clients, a business is essentially just a hobby. Too many startups, innovators, entrepreneurs and SMEs focus too much time on product and service... Read
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Supporting entrepreneurship is the task of our time as we look to tech innovation to unlock solutions in healthcare, energy, education, agriculture, financial inclusion, the green economy and others... Read
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According to research from We Are Social and Hootsuite, South Africans on average spend more than eight hours a day online... Read
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