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As frontline workers eye the exit, digital tools can aid staff retention

IT World

Despite recent concerns about a coming recession, many businesses still struggle to manage acute staffing shortages — particularly those supporting a substantial frontline workforce in the retail, hospitality and transportation industries. So employee retention has become a top priority.

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Celebrating our diversity – how Inter-communities foster inclusion and belonging at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

By transporting us into someone else’s world, they introduce us to new ideas, cultivate empathy for those who are different from us and ultimately help build bridges across that difference. It’s these experiences, grounded in better understanding each other, that help to create a more inclusive office for us. Stories are powerful.

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Let’s Take the Cult out of Silicon Valley Culture

Kellblog

The Theranos disaster, chronicled in Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup , shows clearly how culture played a key role in the downfall of Theranos. [1]. For many Silicon Valley companies, culture is a point of pride and is meticulously captured in long slide presentations, such as the Netflix or HubSpot culture decks. [2].

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How To Scale an Open Culture. What We’ve Learned at Atlassian (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So I know some of that’s execution and having world class products, but what’s happening on the internet, in cloud, in business software, what’s driving this 40% growth at a billion? Jay Simons : Well, I mean, for us it’s the nature of work is changing for a lot of companies. Jay Simons : It is.

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How To Scale an Open Culture. What We’ve Learned at Atlassian (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So I know some of that’s execution and having world class products, but what’s happening on the internet, in cloud, in business software, what’s driving this 40% growth at a billion? Jay Simons : Well, I mean, for us it’s the nature of work is changing for a lot of companies. Jay Simons : It is.

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