Despite recent headlines that "metaverse-hype" is dying down, new research released by Bain & Company shows the metaverse could reach up to $900 billion dollars by 2030 — though it may remain in the seed stage for at least another five to 10 years.

Bain's report, Taking the Hyperbole Out of the Metaverse, concludes that the metaverse poses real and growing economic opportunities...

Barracuda Networks, Inc. has published its fifth annual Threat Spotlight on ransomware. The new report looks at ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2022 and July 2023.

Barracuda researchers analyzed 175 publicly reported successful ransomware attacks across the world between August 2022 and July 2023, and in the primary categories Barracuda has been tracking — municipalities...

After the upheaval of the last three years, employees have shifted their priorities when it comes to work-life balance and flexibility. Employers have had to pivot and change their workplace policies, while juggling company culture, attraction/retention, and cost—sometimes a seemingly impossible task.

The Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), a health and productivity research non-profit, conducte...

More than half of employers (51%) experienced a turnover rate of at least 15% in 2022, up three points from 48% in 2021. Therefore, employee retention became the number one priority for both operations (51%) and HR (66%) this year, according to Gallagher's 2023 U.S. Organizational Wellbeing Report. The Gallagher report examines how employers are adjusting compensation and benefits to improve r...

The majority (51%) of businesses across Europe do not have a succession plan in place for leadership teams, according to a new report from specialist recruitment firm, Robert Half.

The firm’s Boardroom Navigator 2023 also reveals that a staggering 80% of businesses that admit they do not have this strategy in place recognise they need one. With the data also revealing that almost two thirds (64%)...

Action1 Corporation has released its 2023 AI Impact on Sysadmins: Survey Report, in conjunction with Sysadmin Appreciation Day. The survey, conducted in June 2023 with 560 IT administrators worldwide, offers valuable insights into their perceptions and concerns regarding AI's transformative potential in their roles.

Key findings:

- IT admins acknowledge AI's impact on repeatable task...

More than a third of companies polled by CoreNet Global, the premier association for corporate real estate professionals, say that employees are required to be in the office three days a week, but more than 50 percent also say that there is a gap between the number of days employees are required to be in the office and the number of days they are actually there.

How many days workers are required...

Dasseti and Alternatives Watch Research ("AW Research") has released its 2023 Manager Compendium research report which shows no slow-down in capital deployed to alternative investments globally.

Following a review of six asset classes across private markets, including private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private credit, real estate and infrastructure, approximately $746 billion...

In a competitive labor market, organizational culture is an increasingly important consideration for employees choosing where they want to work and requires an intentional, multifaceted approach to creation and maintenance. In mergers and acquisitions, cultural integration, i.e. the integration of the workplace cultures of both organizations, cannot be ignored. To help organizational and HR leader...