As companies make their employee benefit decisions for the new year, HR leaders and benefit brokers alike are focused on the new realities of the ongoing pandemic and its effect on the workplace. Purchasing Power®, a voluntary benefit company that offers a leading employee purchase program, recently conducted an informal survey of HR professionals to assess the impact that both COVID-19 and f...

The Drug Sentiment Index, a new data offering providing a glimpse into what doctors, the public and the media think about the top medications on the market, has launched today via Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point as part of the Alternative Data catalog.

A proprietary offering developed jointly by Pulsar, the leader in audience intelligence and Sermo, the leader in physician insights, the Index a...

Over the last few months, the world has changed, and with it there has been an even greater realization that diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts are important for all workers, not just some. HireTalent and Consciously Unbiased, in association with Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA), have released "The Future of Diversity & Inclusion in the Contingent Workforce." The research rep...

Mountside Ventures and ALLOCATE have released their inaugural annual report entitled, "Capital Behind Venture 2020." The report provides insights on Venture Capital (VC) firms looking to raise funds from Limited Partners (LPs) such as pension funds, university endowments, government agencies, fund-of-funds, and high net worth (HNW) individuals or family offices who actively invest in Eur...

A new study by global staffing firm Robert Half shows video calls may be wearing on workers. More than three-quarters of professionals surveyed (76%) said they participate in virtual meetings. Those respondents reported spending nearly one-third of their workday (30%) on camera with business contacts or colleagues. In addition:

● 38% said they've experienced video call fatigue since the s...

Intercom, the Conversational Relationship Platform that helps businesses drive faster growth, has realased its 2021 Customer Support Trends Report, which examines the impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have on support teams' budgets, plans, and technology investments in 2021. The report identifies five transformative trends that will become mainstay in 2021, as more companies turn to conversati...

The key to make sustainability 'material' within organizations could be in the way businesses' report their financial and pre-financial performance according to new a study from Fabrizio Granà, Assistant Professor in Management Control at ESCP Business School.

The research published in his new book 'Redesigning Organizational Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting' e...

Trinity Business School has partnered with Ibec, Ireland’s top business confederation in launching a free series of workshops and seminars for businesses to rebuild in the Covid economy.

The Reboot & Reignite series brings together top academics, business leaders and industry experts over a series of eight online workshops.

This session ‘Digital strategies for rebooting & reigniting busi...

SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers have unveiled third-quarter threat intelligence collected by the company’s more than 1 million global security sensors. Year-to-date findings through September 2020 highlight cyber criminals’ growing use of ransomware, encrypted threats and attacks leveraging non-standard ports, while overall malware volume declined for the third consecutive quarter.

“For...