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Wait for instructions vs seize the initiative: Sridhar Vembu compares workplace cultures, explains their trade-offs
20+ min ago (462+ words) Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has weighed in on the impact of organisational culture, contrasting workplaces where employees wait for instructions from the top with those where workers are encouraged to take initiative and act independently. In a post on X,…...
The Great AI Productivity Boom (Your Customers Will Never Feel)
26+ min ago (703+ words) A few weeks ago I sat with the leadership team of a large B2B company that had spent 18 months and a relative serious budget on AI. The dashboards were glowing. Agents were drafting faster, tickets were summarized in seconds, the internal…...
AI can fix productivity. But there’s a cost
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (67+ words) Slow private-sector wage growth in Britain offers a cautionary tale. Britain’s policymakers need to think harder about how to get young people and those in AI-exposed professions in on those productivity gains. Published Aug 24, 2026, 04:00 PM Updated Aug 24, 2026, 04:26 PM Is the…...
Discipline Can Stifle Initiative, Says Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (554+ words) Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has raised concerns about the unintended consequences of pushing a highly disciplined work culture. While discipline is often seen as essential for building efficient teams, Vembu believes organisations can lose something equally…...
Kelly Francis: When good employees disengage quietly
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (787+ words) In my last column, I looked at the early signals of retention risk, those warning signs that a resignation may be coming. There is a more dangerous version of the problem because it produces no signal loud enough to notice…...
The hidden productivity drain costing Australian businesses thousands of hours: Omniche Advisory says organisations are overlooking a major productivity opportunity by allowing highly skilled employees to spend too much time on repetitive tasks
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (363+ words) SYDNEY, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Omniche Advisory, a technology advisory that partners with executive teams and boards on strategy, AI, data and hands-on delivery, says Australian businesses are sitting on a significant productivity opportunity. Skilled employees are spending too much of their…...
'Accidents happen at night': Can Mirae-N's Sejong factory day-shift experiment succeed?
5+ hour ago (250+ words) Two-shift to single-shift: pilot launched in May, full rollout at Sejong factory in August About 10 billion won invested to maintain output amid scale-up Mirae-N Chairman Kim Young-jin's call: 'Build a factory where my own children could work' A factory official…...
Supporting employee wellbeing in an era of constant disruptions
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (291+ words) With geopolitical, technological, and economic turbulence becoming the norm, organisations must view employee wellbeing not as an HR benefit, but as a core component of Duty of Care, writes Sapna Pawa, medical advisor at International SOS Not long ago, organisations…...
Is your workplace age-friendly?
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (99+ words) Today’s workforces are made up of employees of all ages. And, according to NIOSH, “an age-friendly workplace benefits all workers.” Older workers often have institutional knowledge, which can be a huge benefit to employers. They have the experience needed to…...
Kyocera expands A3 portfolio to meet demands of high-volume workplaces
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (318+ words) KYOCERA Document Solutions South Africa has announced the local launch of seven new high-speed A3 multifunction printers (MFPs), giving South African and SADC organisations more choice when it comes to fast, reliable and secure document handling. The new TASKalfa MZ9500ci colour series…...