Digital whiteboards: The next must-have tool for hybrid teams?
Companies are looking to online visual collaboration platforms to provide shared workspaces for employees both in and out of the office. The scope of workplace collaboration tools available to teams today stretches far beyond anything employees might have imagined two and a half years ago. When work-from-home orders swept the globe in early 2020, most organizations were focused on ensuring they had viable video and chat platforms in place. Now, as a significant proportion of employees have decided to work…
Canadian And USA Companies Hiring Remotely From Lagos
You might think it is challenging to land a remote job in the United States if you live in another country. However, in reality, getting a remote job is simple as long as you know where to look and how to ace the interview process. Thanks to the internet, it’s easier than ever to connect with others around the world. Many companies are taking advantage of this and diversifying their teams by hiring remote workers in various fields Where to…
Remote Team: What Apple’s Freeform collaboration app brings on board
Freeform is an upcoming collaboration tool for Mac, iPad, and iPhone that Apple says will give remote teams a limitless virtual whiteboard within which to work. Apple’s Freeform collaboration tool, due out “later this year,” is designed to give remote teams a limitless virtual whiteboard within which they can work together. We don’t know much about it beyond what was announced at WWDC 2022, but we do know not to expect it to appear in the first iterations of the Mac,…
Employers now prefer tech skills to college degrees
A new study shows employers are ending college degree requirements for many job openings, focusing instead on skills, experience, and personality traits. The sea change opens up tech jobs to a more diverse pool of candidates At Google, a four-year degree is not required for almost any role at the company — and a computer science degree isn’t required for most software engineering or product manager positions. “Our focus is on demonstrated skills and experience, and this can come through degrees…
Digital Employee Experience: A key worker retention tool
DEX software can help companies improve the technology their workers use every day, which in turn helps with employee retention. As organizations navigate the changes that have come to characterize the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic — including record-breaking numbers of employees leaving their jobs in the Great Resignation — many realize that they are more vulnerable than ever to facing a depleted workforce. To address this challenge, a growing number of enterprises are deploying digital employee experience (DEX) tools and services…
PixieBrix: A handy tool that lets you adapt your website for your team
This Chrome extension will boost productivity by making your team’s favorite web apps even more well-suited to their needs. Ready to have your mind blown This wacky ol’ World Wide Web of ours has plenty of good things going for it, but customization isn’t exactly its core strength. For the most part, the web is what it is — a take-it-or-leave-it sort of affair. And especially when your business leans on lots of browser-based tools and services, as so many…
Remote work spurs a national wage leveling in tech
As more workers choose to work remotely, organizations face a dilemma: do they pay remote workers the same as those living in high-cost metropolitan regions? For some companies, that conundrum is already a reality. As more employees work remotely in the aftermath the global COVID-19 pandemic, salaries based on where in US they live are showing signs of leveling. For example, a recent study by fintech startup Carta found that salaries for tech startup employees in Seattle now match those of workers…
Why You Need To Stop Charging Your Android Phone To 100%
If you’re concerned about your phone’s battery life and making it last as long as possible, you certainly aren’t alone. A survey conducted by USA Today showed that battery life was the most common factor chosen by Android users when asked what’d get them excited about buying a new phone. There are plenty of ways the average Android smartphone user can improve their battery life in the short term, but today we’re focusing on one of the most important factors in…
