What can Abodoo SmartWorking do for your business?
19th November 2018As Abodoo marked it’s first birthday, we took time to reflect on #SmartWorking strategies and what they mean to us as employees and what they mean to you, as a business owner. We summarised the four key ways Abodoo can help your business thrive. COST SAVING We aim to help you cut costs in your…
PRESS: Abodoo is Marrying Recruitment & Technology
18th November 2018On November 18 2018, Vanessa Tierney spoke with John Cradden on the changing landscape recruitment in this piece in the Independent.ie, entitled: “Local Hero: Home from home… the smarter approach in search for talent Abodoo is marrying recruitment and tech expertise to promote remote working” Recruitment Challenge The global online recruitment sector is a multi-billion-euro industry these…
How Big Data Can Be Your Diversity Ally
14th November 2018If you ask around, most companies will tell how much they want to be diverse and inclusive. Making that a reality however, is the tricky part. This week’s #DiversitySeries discusses how data can help you achieve this! Ask any business their thoughts on having a diverse workforce and nearly everyone will say promoting diversity is one of their…
How Company Culture Can Drive Competitive Edge
6th November 2018In 2004, Blockbuster ruled the video rental world. With revenue of $6 billion, it had the world queuing patiently in stores to rent their Friday night entertainment. Meanwhile, Netflix was quietly mounting a challenge. Within 6 years, Blockbuster had filed for bankruptcy, and Netflix had grown its revenue to $2.2 billion (How Netflix Destroyed Blockbuster…
Women in Stem: UCC x Johnson and Johnson
23rd October 2018This week we welcomed Silicon Republic’s latest article announcing the #WiSTEM2D partnership between UCC and Johnson & Johnson and it isn’t just any run of the mill partnership! The aim of the initiative is to encourage more women to pursue STEM disciplines. What exactly is STEM and why is it so important? STEM is typically defined…
Are Unconscious Biases Ruining Your Chances Of Smart Working Success?
30th August 2018Smart working is – so the rhetoric goes – a win-win scenario… Workers have, quite literally, a world of greater employment opportunities open to them, no longer restricted to jobs available only in their local area. The ability to work from home, often with more flexible working hours, affords the freedom to do the school…
How Gender affects Workplace recognition
16th August 2018Many of us can remember the days in primary school, when the boys wanted to hustle with the boys and the girls want to play with the girls. “Cooties”, galore. Yet research has shown that many people continue to prefer same-gender friendships even into adulthood which inevitably filters into workplace relationships. According to Namely’s Workplace Diversity…
Boom Brexit: Maintain Cross-Border Jobs by Letting Your Employees SmartWork From Home
1st August 2018In recent months, there has been uncertainty about the future of cross border jobs post Brexit. What are the ramifications for UK companies currently providing employment in Ireland? Will there be a surge of unemployment in cross border jobs? In early July, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe reported that unemployment levels could rise by 2% with…
The Future of SmartWorking
19th July 2018In 2018, people live in an increasingly congested, professionally overpopulated world but are experienced with the benefits of collaborating over the internet. Before learning and developing online was novel — now it is an accepted, largely accredited medium that we train with regularly. Now, online learning is inexorably part of the academic experience, whether you…
Global Skills Challenges Solved by #SmartWorking
18th July 2018There are many challenges that can be solved by remote working – congestion, productivity, lifestyle flexibility but these can be subjective. Remote presents a smart solution to global industry problems, a major one being the ICT skills gap. It may come as little surprise that this shift towards remote working has been sparked by the…