More than half (52 percent) of employees in global organisations have encountered workplace bullying and felt psychologically unsafe at work, according to a new study conducted by City & Guilds Group. The report also claims that only one in ten firms proactively take steps to support staff mental health, and found …
Corvus Insurance, a two-year-old, Boston-based insurance company that uses data across more than 50 criteria to predict and prevent losses for its corporate customers in the food and pharmaceutical industries, has attracted $8 million in funding, shows a newly processed SEC filing that says the capital came from six investors. …
Office work has existed in some form ever since people started writing on tablets and papyrus. Depictions of clerical staff are common in the Bible and on the walls of pyramids. In the mid 14th Century the Church of San Nicolò, commissioned the artist Tomaso da Modena to create the …
If you’re a regular user of Google Photos, you may have noticed how the application automatically extracts and groups faces of people from the photos that you back up to the cloud. Face Recognition in the Google Photos web application A photo application such as Google’s achieves this through the …
As we sip our lemonade in the later summer sun here in the Northern Hemisphere, you would think it’s an odd time to be contemplating snow and the holiday shopping. But as a small business owner, it is the perfect time to start planning for the 2018 end-of-year …
New guidance has been launched by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) to assist client organisations to include more ambitious circular design and construction best practices in project briefs for non-domestic projects. It addresses the commercial realities associated with making this practically happen and provides support and evidence to assist …
Just because we’re living in a digital age doesn’t mean that print media is dead. Far from it. There was a time when it certainly seemed to be on the decline, but in recent years there has been a resurgence, with customers placing a greater emphasis on products they can …
Glendon Warner always wanted to run his own business. So, when he and 33,000 other Toys ‘R’ Us employees lost their jobs this year as the company closed its U.S. locations, he saw the behemoth retailer’s absence as the perfect opportunity. He opened his own toy shop. “Sometimes,” Warner tells …
Planning out a website’s layout with website mockup tools before cracking open a code editor is a good practice. However, choosing the right tool for that planning process isn’t just about what’s in your Applications folder. There are many different options available, and each might be suitable based on your …
The biggest breach of 2017 was arguably the attack that exposed more than 145 million Equifax customers and resulted in the theft of SSNs, birth date information, and other valuable data. The breach will cost the company hundreds of millions, and the impact on consumers could be even more due …
Since the origins of the web nearly 30 years ago, web designers have written tens of thousands of web design articles. Trends have come and gone, best practices have been created and made obsolete, and the devices we browse on look nothing like those of the past. In short, the …
Separating a single person’s voice from a noisy crowd is something most people do subconsciously — it’s called the cocktail party effect. Smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon’s Echo typically have a tougher time, but thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), they might one day be able to filter out …
President Donald Trump’s trade policy could cost American households thousands of dollars next year, according to a study released Tuesday. The report, authored by Terrie Walmsley and Peter Minor and sponsored by the pro-free-trade Koch Industries, concluded that Trump’s threats to boost tariffs on Chinese products, impose tariffs on auto …
According to statistics, over 50 percent of startup businesses fail. Often, though, we aren’t informed of the factors that may inhibit entrepreneurs from thriving beyond strategy, marketing, or product timing phases. Unfortunately, some of the debilitating factors stem from home and, in turn, impact one’s confidence, certainty, and power in …
