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How to leverage existing infrastructure and employee engagement to build a solid work from home foundation for the business By Nicholas Bell, CEO at Decision Inc. The impact of Covid-19, also known as the coronavirus, is being felt across the global business landscape. The Presidential address on 23 March 2020 has placed South Africa under lock down for 21 days – a step that’s aligned with global best practice but that’s set to change the working landscape for a long period of time. Organisations have to find new ways of working as employees are required to work from home (WFH)…
Leading Johannesburg-based e-commerce and software development specialist Syncrony proudly announces the release of GreenLine version 2.1. This is the latest version of their bleeding edge general ledger reconciliation and balance sheet integrity software. The solution is specifically targeted at the last mile or financial close process. It provides progress visibility and individual accountability for accounting teams running month-end reconciliation processes for large companies and groups. Syncrony management explains that this is to coordinate and support geographically dispersed accounting staff who submit supporting documents that prove the balance sheet of the organisation comprises real numbers. GreenLine validates GL totals that are…
Technology has permeated all facets of business. Today, it has become less about the bits and bytes and more about unlocking the efficiency of processes, improving the customer experience, and better understanding data to deliver on the company strategy. Those organisations looking to provide differentiation must become smarter in how they leverage the technology, systems, and data at their disposal. To become agile for the increasingly digitally-aware age, companies should consider rethinking how they approach their teams, their development and computing environments, their data, and even their managed services. Ultimately, it is about integrating these pillars into a common vision…
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Coffee? Tea? Internet? This is what your company should pay when you work from home. There are regulations and rules that protect both employer and employee when it comes to costs, tools and behaviours, but these are being tested in entirely new ways with the 2020 pandemic. It’s a perfectly legitimate question for any employee to ask for financial support when they’re working from home, using their internet and electricity to do their jobs. It’s equally legitimate for companies to query the extent of these costs at a time when budgets and economies are tight. According to Sandra Maritz, Legislation…
Social media may be in the public domain but the personality online is not necessarily the person in the real world “Love life! Drinking it all!” The moment a person hits Send on a social media post it enters the public domain. Their plan to drink an entire bottle of champagne is now known by everyone who reads the post, from their best friend to their colleagues to the HR director of a company they want to work for. According to Nicol Myburgh, Human Capital Management (HCM) Business Unit at CRS Technologies, social media posts can be used to form…
“Noun. Movement to an improved or more developed state, or to a forward position.” – Cambridge English Dictionary. Digital transformation has undergone massive acceleration over the past year. In the Microsoft quarterly earnings report, CEO Satya Nadella famously said that the company had seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. It’s a view shared by McKinsey who, in their quarterly report referred to the impact of the pandemic on digital transformation as ‘The quickening’ and suggesting, with no humour whatsoever that perhaps the whiplash felt by the business was the ‘ten years forward we just jumped in…
The decline in government spending, together with its failure to pay contractors on time or even not at all, are among the main factors contributing to the decline of South Africa’s construction industry, according to Databuild CEO Morag Evans. But, she adds, there is much that government can do to provide the stimulus the sector so desperately needs. “Government can begin by actually spending the funding that has been allocated in the national budget, specifically on new infrastructure such as roads, reservoirs, and low cost housing. And while priority must also be given to areas such as health and education,…
Even though the use of cannabis in the home is now legal, the potential exists for employees to arrive at work under the influence. Most company policies cater for the use of illegal substances while at work, but these need to be updated to reflect the new regulations, says Nicol Myburgh, Head of the HR Business Unit at CRS Technologies. Studies have shown that cannabis can affect an employee’s occupational capacity in various ways. This includes performing tasks more slowly, performing poorly when handling routine, monotonous tasks, and difficulty in multi-tasking, taking instructions from superiors, making crucial decisions and operating…