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Reader’s Storage Digest: Backup, HPC Storage, Data Lakes and More

"The UK’s Crown Commercial Services office has selected Bridgeworks to offer the NHS and qualifying medical research organisations data management services over the next 12 months, at no cost. Bridgeworks is making available its PORTrockIT IP network acceleration products free of charge for one year, to any Health Organisation or Medical Research Establishment engaged in COVID-19 vaccine research work."

Published by Block and Files. Author: Journalist, Chris Mellor. 

Built to Last? A blueprint for developing future-proof in-house legal teams

This Obelisk Support paper reviews current reports, #surveys and various off-line and on-line literature on in-house #legal #teams and best practice. As well as looking at the legal industry specifically, we draw on thinking from #leaders and #academics across many industries in order to synthesise and present a comprehensive set of #insights. We have also analysed the websites, #press coverage and recruitment advertising of the UK #FTSE100 companies, looking at their leadership, advertised #benefits and working practices and promotion of careers
within the legal team. This #analysis was carried out using internet search engines and job boards in October 2019. This report was researched and written with Graham Jarvis of Media-Insert Communications: https://bit.ly/3d0lJSb

Engage Remote Employees With Microsoft 365

Silicon Reef is all about connecting and creating employee engagement with remote and flexible teams. We find they bring distinct advantages: the creation of cost and time efficiencies, increased employee happiness, reduced staff churn and recruitment costs.

With the right tools and organisational culture, remote and flexible strategies in place, team productivity and performance can shoot up. A 2017 YouGov survey of British business and employees found 89% considered flexible working to be a key motivator to their productivity – particularly when a sense of being part of a team is created, as most of us yearn for person-to-person interactions.

Click to understand how to engage remote employees with Microsoft 365. 

BRIDGEWORKS SUPPORTS STEM AWARDS

Lymington Times: College STEM students are honoured at awards evening

They were honoured for their dedication, commitment and hard work across the full range (science, technology, engineering maths) subjects.

Top students from Brockenhurst College were celebrated at its annual STEM Awards.

Gold and silver awards were given out to 26 high achievers as well as cash prizes.

The event was sponsored by local industry partners Fawley-based GEO Speciality Chemicals and Lymington-based Bridgeworks.

Graham Dunkley from GEO and Bridgeworks CEO David Trossell presented the accolades, along with £100 for gold and £50 for silver winners.

Find out more, here. 

Recruitment: Robots or Skilled Tech People?

David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, looks at whether companies should recruit humans or robots, and whether they should work on upskilling the workforce with STEM apprenticeships as a means of recruitment. 

To find the answer, click here to read the article. 

Published by Information Age on 20th December 2018. By-line: David Trossell. Client: Trudy Darwin Consulting. 

How to Address The Lack of Cloud Skills

Sarah K. White reported for CIO magazine in July 2016 that “Cloud services are becoming the cornerstone of an enterprise’s IT infrastructure. However, IT leadersare finding it difficult to not only plan for and implement cloud technology, but also to hire qualified candidates. Part of that struggle, according to a recent study from Softchoice of 250 line of business managers and 250 IT decision makers, is a lack of qualified candidates as well as a general misunderstanding of how to create a successful cloud strategy.” This issue is putting many organisations’ IT security in jeopardy. Read on here: http://www.cloudcomputingintelligence.com/images/CCi-PDF-Template-Lack-of-cloud-skills.pdf.

By Graham Jarvis. Published by Cloud Computing Intelligence circa. September 2016.

How Spreading a Little Bit of Employee Happiness Can Improve Your Bottom Line

Happiness can improve your bottom line.

Happiness is considered somewhat of a fluffy term, and ask your board of directors if they care about how happy your employees are they will probably say yes, but may not know why it matters so much. Focused predominately on business growth and fixated on the traditional Profit & Loss (P&L) view of company performance, too many organisations are still missing the opportunity that lies in maximising their ‘2nd P&L’, their ‘people and leaders’. By taking a one dimensional view of what drives company growth, organisations miss key opportunities to increase the performance of their number one asset – their people. Read the complete article. 

Publication: Incentive and Motivation. Written by Tony Latter, CEO and Co-Founder of The Happiness Index. Clients: Luminous P.R and The Happiness Index.

Smart tech: Making Employees Safer and More Productive

Mobile apps and wearable technologies such as Apple Watch motivate employees, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.

Employee health and wellbeing is firmly on the agenda of many organisations today. A healthy employee is a happy and potentially a highly productive member of staff who’s less likely to either seek employment elsewhere, go off sick or be absent for other reasons.

According to research from the University of Salford: “More than 130 million days are lost to sickness absence every year in the UK, and working age ill health has an annual cost to the economy of more than £100bn.” So health and wellbeing isn’t an issue companies of all kinds can take lightly.

Find out more, read the complete articles here. 

Publication: Director of Finance, written by Graham Jarvis and published on 31st May 2016.

Attracting Talent: Filling the Gaps

This feature series explores the importance of mentoring and attracting talent, with today’s installment discussing how CFOs can use mentoring initiatives to attract the right talent. Graham Jarvis looks at how 'times are changing'.

Publication: Director of Finance, published on 21st March 2016. 

Morgan McKinley UAE Quarterly Employment Monitor: Q2 2015

Growth forecast: The professional recruitment market will see a 5-10% growth rate per quarter for the rest of the year...

Visit Morgan McKinley to read more. Client: Morgan McKinley. Bylined to Trefor Murphy, Managing Director MENA.