Hybrid working has made it open season on swiping people’s stuff when they are not thereHotdesking undermines the reasons people were brought back to the office: to boost collaboration and innovation and help newbies learnFri Mar 24 2023 - 05:00
Adapting to a life of precision, independence and the outdoorsAlice Reiner, a director at MSD, moved to Switzerland in 2020 with her husband and daughterFri Mar 24 2023 - 05:00
Galway start-up leads the way in greenhouse gas-busting additives for farmsNew Innovator: GlasPort Bio looking to find partners to distribute and/or manufacture its products internationally following success hereThu Mar 23 2023 - 05:00
Negotiate on pay even as employers are pulling back on pay rises Increases expected to be more modest in 2023 but failure to negotiate will generally see you underpaidThu Mar 16 2023 - 12:00
Scent-sampling subscription puts expensive designer perfumes within reachSimpleScents is an affordable way for consumers to get their hands on a perfume they want to try out without paying for a full bottle, says founder Niall BrennanThu Mar 16 2023 - 05:00
Grit, resilience and empathy the building blocks for a business in care and communications Aviva Cohen threw herself into business to develop rehab tools for her husband and others after his catastrophic strokeFri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00
‘We’re very happy where we are ... I don’t miss anything about Dublin as a place’Mark Dalton has made Sydney his home — a city that is ideal for his wife and two young childrenFri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00
UniDoodle learning tool helps students nail difficult concepts Real-time visual learning aid with planned September launch when spun out of Maynooth University can also cut time teachers spend correcting papersThu Mar 09 2023 - 05:00
‘Missing my family and Irish friends is the biggest drawback of living abroad’Wild Geese: Dr Conor Heneghan, CaliforniaFri Mar 03 2023 - 05:00
Is your employer watching you? Scanning emails, tracking phones, taking screenshots on the riseReport shows 40% of monitored employees received no communication about monitoring from their employerFri Mar 03 2023 - 05:00
Pensions Vault lets you gather all your pension information in one placeAs well as a safe place for documentation, the interactive dashboard provides projected pension values which users can discuss with their advisersThu Mar 02 2023 - 05:00
Recruitment process suffers as ghosting moves from dating to corporate worldCandidates understand they may not get a job but a poor hiring experience or being strung along and then blanked leave a bad tasteFri Feb 24 2023 - 05:00
Inclusivity training aims to deliver a commercial and a social impact Games help people become more mindful about what they say and do, and more aware of the consequences of the decisions they makeThu Feb 23 2023 - 05:00
Are hybrid workers really as productive as office-based colleagues? Hybrid strategies have to meet the needs of a business and its employees, but both sides must accept that needs may change over timeFri Feb 17 2023 - 05:01
The 18-month work posting that turned into a new lifeWild Geese: John Ryan, SydneyFri Feb 17 2023 - 05:00
Novel technology from Fada Medical improves insulin delivery for Type 1 diabetesNew Innovator: Technology helps critical infusion devices to overcome the body’s defence mechanism for much longer than is presently possibleThu Feb 16 2023 - 05:00
Falling in love with the buzz and energy of Cambodia Wild Geese: Patrick Mooney, Vancouver and Phnom PenhFri Feb 10 2023 - 05:00
Employers need to tailor job offers to attract younger workersThe fact that salary is top of key job attributes jars with prevailing view that purpose and satisfaction matter more to younger workers than money.Fri Feb 10 2023 - 05:00
Handsome Scent: ‘We’ve sold thousands of bottles of perfume and never had one return’New Innovator: Paul Jackman’s firm specialises in travel-sized vessels of fragrances for men under 30Thu Feb 09 2023 - 05:00
Corporate wellness concept needs reality checkTime to focus on making work more enjoyable while encouraging staff to do what they should in taking care of themselvesFri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
Risk assessment system aims to stop forest fires in their tracks New Innovator: Femtofire uses climatic and other significant factors to actively locate and identify fire risksThu Feb 02 2023 - 05:00
‘Success is achieved through strategy:’ Break out of that humdrum job to pursue your ambitionsFeeling discontented at work can mean we have lost sight of two key elements that keep us fulfilled – purpose and reaching our potentialFri Jan 27 2023 - 05:00
New harness helps to stop energetic dogs pulling on their leadsIn. Line uses dog’s momentum to guide it back to owner’s side if it starts moving too far awayThu Jan 26 2023 - 05:00
Focus on turning workplace stars into leaders can easily backfire Spending money to foster talent is a waste if organisations use faulty criteria to select participants for high potential programmesFri Jan 20 2023 - 05:00
Artificial intelligence is key to dairy herd health monitoring systemDairy Robotics is a plug-and-play herd health monitoring system that can be operational within a few hoursThu Jan 19 2023 - 05:00
Searching for balance in a world of work that is in fluxCompanies and employees struggling to establish post-Covid working norms against a backdrop of unsettling tech sector job cutsFri Jan 13 2023 - 05:00
‘The Dutch working environment is very direct, and I really like that’Wild Geese: Judith Gardiner relocated to Amsterdam in 2001Fri Jan 13 2023 - 05:00
App aims to help women with Parkinson’s disease improve their quality of lifeMost neurologists never discuss impact of menstruation on disease activity or how medication regime might be adjusted to help ease impact, survey foundThu Jan 12 2023 - 05:00
Middle managers bear the brunt in a new world of workIn a new world of hybrid and remote working, burnout risk is escalating amid the need to juggle demands of superiors’ demands and staff’s expectationsFri Dec 16 2022 - 05:00
OptaHaul: ‘The dairy industry has been badly neglected from a technology point of view’New routing system for milk transport fleets cuts costs and emissionsThu Dec 15 2022 - 05:15
All meetings are not born equalAs the remote working debate rumbles on, research shows that face-to-face meetings are really only needed for high-level engagementFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Creating clean green energy from food wasteMyGug has created an anaerobic digester that turns food waste into renewable energy and fertiliserThu Dec 08 2022 - 05:15
Work-life balance and other supports needed to recruit and retain younger talentEmployers that provide more support to graduates at the start of their careers stand a better chance of retaining them, says expertFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:15
Recipe management tool helps chefs cut food waste and improve marginsRestaurateur couple launched Prepsheets earlier this year and plans to enter UK market in 2023Thu Dec 01 2022 - 05:15
For RedZinc founder Donal Morris, perseverance paid off Innovators need to be able to rebound from failure and pivot to contend with new opportunities and realitiesFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:00
‘There is no reason why everyone shouldn’t have a reusable water bottle or coffee cup’Former PwC consultant Cathal O’Reilly is on a mission to change consumer behaviour around sustainabilityThu Nov 24 2022 - 05:15
Diversity in the workplace delivers for the bottom linePeople seeking out business partners and employees who share their traits miss out on quantifiable benefits, research showsFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00
Helping companies combat cyberthreats more effectivelyTools available to appraise security risks are not fit to do the job, says CytidelThu Nov 17 2022 - 05:00
Hybrid working can create a very unequal playing field post-pandemic There is emerging evidence that women are being disadvantaged by hybrid workingFri Nov 11 2022 - 05:00
‘Most people taking supplements don’t really know what they need’ Easily administered home test identifies key nutrient gapsThu Nov 10 2022 - 05:00
Dealing with fraught relationships at work can be exhaustingFocus to what you can control as trying to change other people’s behaviour is usually a waste of timeFri Nov 04 2022 - 05:30
SideTeams aims for network of aspiring and existing tech entrepreneursNew platform connects budding tech entrepreneurs with potential collaborators, employees and investorsThu Nov 03 2022 - 05:10
Irish workers are not star pupils in upskilling and lifelong learningCompanies need to move further education and training up their agendaFri Oct 28 2022 - 05:00
Why your dream job may be bad for your healthYoung people in sought-after tech jobs are increasingly presenting with workplace stress-related symptomsThu Oct 20 2022 - 05:00
Gratitude goes long way in fostering employee engagementOrganisations in Ireland are facing a people crisis and wellbeing is critical to business outcomes, not simply important to individualsFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Helping third-level students and academic researchers conquer statistics anxietyNew Innovator: Sunny Numbers provides an affordable e-learning course to those who struggle with crunching statsThu Oct 13 2022 - 05:45
Peer-to-peer coaching: Help employees rediscover their mojoSmall peer coaching circles work because externally they are cross-industry while, within companies, they are cross functional and get people out of their silosFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:55
‘The app is used on average five times day to order food, groceries and arrange a service such as cleaning’Super app brings retailers and service providers together in one placeThu Oct 06 2022 - 05:00
Ford plays matchmaker in the interest of retaining talentCarmaker looking to break traditional boundaries of job sharing to maximise talent and flexibilityFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:08
‘We have developed a sort of Facebook for eternity’ —Klokbox founder Dan Culloty New Innovator: Digital time capsule preserves family memories foreverThu Sept 29 2022 - 05:30
