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Harmonising people and digitalisation for highways asset management

Andy Peart from Causeway Technologies discusses his vision for the future of highways asset management.
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Mental health at work during the most stressful months of the year

What does mental health at work look like as we enter some of the most stressful months of the year for small businesses?
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Health & Human Services organisations: Are your HHS leaders strong enough?

Public Sector Health & Human Services leaders, or HHS leaders, need their operations to be aligned with experimentation and learning to lead transformational change.
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We must make EV training a priority

A staggering 99% of working electricians believe that there are major risks with EV charging work so we must prioritise EV training, now.
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How cannabis tracking technology can help global supply chain struggles

Lewis Koski, Chief Strategy Officer of Metrc, charts how cannabis tracking technology can help global supply chain struggles.
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Cats have been found to encourage stress relief in people with anxiety

Research has drawn attention to the benefits of spending time with cats, as a means of stress relief, for people suffering from anxiety disorders.
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As 20% fall behind on bills, employers can do more to help

As the cost of living crisis affects the mental and physical well-being of workers everywhere, employers need to better support employees.
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Rethinking the serious leisure perspective

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe from Frost & Sullivan’s TechCasting Group, urges us to rethink the serious leisure perspective.
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What is “quiet quitting” and how is burnout affecting the UK?

Work-based stress and burnout have led to a rise in quiet quitting - a notion where people limit their work to strictly working hours.
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Maintaining momentum on digital investment is key to dealing with the skills shortage

There is a massive skills shortage in the public sector, but continued investment in technology and digital transformation could solve this.
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AI technology is not dark magic, it’s just misunderstood

AI technology has a vital role to play in the future of business and academia, and the better our understanding of it, the more it can expand across sectors and skill sets.
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International Baccalaureate programme moves to digital exams

Digital exams are now overtaking traditional paper exams in the International Baccalaureate, with the potential to move to virtual reality assessments also.
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Post-pandemic skills solutions can reset public sector innovation

How do we access the talent needed for public sector innovation? Attracting tech talent relies on a flexible environment that employees want to work in.
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Why do phone notifications distract us and how can we manage them at work?

Phone notifications are a necessary evil in our always-connected, work-from-anywhere world. But all too often, they can be a major distraction, pulling us away from our tasks and goals.
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Girls Who Code: Encouraging Girls towards STEM Careers

Girls Who Code – While enrolment in computing science and engineering degrees has largely evened out among men and women, the professional participation of women in the technology sphere continues to lag behind.
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Climate change efforts in Denmark’s Ministry of Environment

Denmark’s Ministry of Environment is leading the nation’s efforts on climate change mitigation and developing a circular economy.
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Biodiversity and the benefits of nature to the workforce

Exploring the relationship between mental health, the workforce, and biodiversity, workplaces should be encouraging their employees to volunteer in nature more.
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15 ways to provide employee mental health & well-being support

Since we spend the majority of our adult lives at work, it is vital that employers provide sufficient employee mental health & well-being support - here's how.
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Is a hybrid approach the answer to supply chain issues for mental health services?

Dr Chuk Anyaegbuna, clinical service lead at Koa Health, and clinical psychologist, Dr Tania Johnston discuss how technology can support the current delivery system and improve access to mental health services.
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Plastic pollution and how COVID-19 contributed to the problem

Plastic pollution has been an issue since the 1960s, but when mask-wearing, single-use plastics and hand sanitiser bottles became the norm, things only got worse.

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