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Last week at Orgatec, a leading European trade show for contract and office furniture, the Swiss company Vitra previewed a set of office seating prototypes, called Soft Work, which you might more likely find in a chic hotel lobby or…

Tech analyst firm Gartner has compiled a list of the top ten strategic technology trends that organisations need to explore in 2019. According to Garner, these technologies have substantial disruptive potential and are either on the edge of making a…

As of 2017, upward of 2.1 billion internet users lived in emerging markets. By 2022, that number will likely swell to around 3 billion, and three times as many internet users will live in emerging markets as in developed markets.…

.In the decade between 2007 and 2017, the percentage of adults who had a level of education below upper secondary (usually from age 14) fell from 20% to 15%. The most highly educated country in the report was South Korea,…

The organisation of tomorrow will be built around data. Therefore, the first step is to datafy your organisation and collect data at every process and customer touch point. The second step in the organisation of tomorrow is to distribute that…

Companies are introducing programmes to help workers cope better with stress and anxiety . Even in industries such as finance or technology that are intensely competitive, there is increased understanding that attending to employees’ mental wellbeing may be good for…

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), about 133m jobs globally could be created with the help of rapid technological advances in the workplace over the next decade, compared with 75m that could be displaced. Read more in the guardian …

I’m in Tokyo for Uber Elevate, Uber’s third conference outlining its plans to get flying cars off the silver screen and into our skies in as little as two years. It’s a lofty ambition, but Uber has partnered with some…

Workers in Europe have adopted the Chairless Chair, and now similar technology is coming to the consumer market.A new company called Astride Bionix just launched a relatively low-cost wearable chair. The device, which is like a pair of kickstands for the…

Between 2018 and 2022, sales of physical video games, home video, and music are expected to decline each year, in some instances by double-digit percentages. By contrast, sales of physical books are expected to grow modestly, by about 1 percent…