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Embrace the chaos: the office must find a new purpose, conference concludes

Workplace Insight

As one would perhaps expect from a BCO conference, several speakers made a case for the office, including Davina Saint, director of the Irish National Assets Management Agency. It’s time we do the same with the employee experience, stressed many of the speakers. Nobody interrelates naturally with screens or virtual protocols, she said.

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Q&A: What are some social and economic issues small business face.

The Small Business Blog

To many work is the central activity in their lives and the stresses and pressures of todays workplace are enormous, overtime, project pressure, sales targets, travel to and from the place of work, to name but a few. This all causes tension in a partnership, family and leads often to a dysfunctional family/private life.

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