SHRM/Globoforce Survey Reveals Employee Turnover is Top Workforce Challenge Facing HR Leaders

Employee retention/turnover is the number one workplace challenge facing HR leaders today, according to the 2015 SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey. The survey results were announced by Globoforce, a leading provider of social recognition solutions, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. In the survey, 40 percent of HR professionals cite employee retention/turnover as their top organizational challenge, followed by employee engagement.

Read more...

New IDC Study Shows a Disconnect Between Customer and Employee Experience

The International Data Corporation (IDC) 2015 EXPERIENCES Survey shows that providing a consistent experience across multiple engagement channels is a key focus for companies as well as the means to ensuring that employees, business partners, and suppliers have a unified view of interactions.

Read more...

INCENSe launches second open call for cleantech startups

INCENSe’s second Open Call has just been launched, beginning a process that will end with 28 startups being rewarded with up to 150,000 Euros of funding. Small or medium enterprises or web entrepreneurs working on cleantech projects that are based on FIWARE technology can apply online at www.incense-accelerator.com.

Read more...

Storyful partners with Google News Lab to power Youtube Newswire

Storyful and Google News Lab are teaming up and launching the YouTube Newswire, a channel dedicated to discovering, verifying and publishing the most newsworthy eyewitness YouTube videos of the day.

Read more...

Endesa launches a competition for university and professional training students

Endesa, in collaboration with the University Enterprise Foundation (FUE), has launched the first edition of the competition for university students called “Ideas on the Move”, dedicated to energy innovation. Students will have until the 25th of September to submit their ideas via the website www.lasideassemueven.com

Read more...