by dankeelan | Sep 1, 2026 | Featured, Surveillance, Workplace
The next time you log onto a company laptop, clock in through an app, or use a work-issued phone, there may be more than a manager keeping tabs on your performance. Employers are increasingly using workplace surveillance technology – often referred to as...
by dankeelan | Aug 11, 2026 | Soft Skills, Workplace
Noticing that a six-foot-something intoxicated and aggressive man was hungry and providing him with a ham sandwich once helped John Finnerty calm a volatile situation. Finnerty, who is 53 and from Limerick, was a member of An Garda Síochána at the time. “I’d been...
by dankeelan | Aug 11, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Workplace
For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working. An engineering...
by dankeelan | Aug 4, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Workplace
There is good and bad news about AI disruption in the labor market. It’s still barely discernible as a trend with the technology responsible for adding around only 15 basis points to the overall unemployment rate. But, that figure has risen from 10 basis points last...
by dankeelan | Jul 28, 2026 | Mental Health, Workplace
According to Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace 2026 report, worker engagement has fallen for the second year running, dropping to 20 percent in 2025—its lowest level since 2020. Engagement, in the report’s terms, measures the...
by dankeelan | Jun 16, 2026 | Health, Workplace
When it comes to building a culture of health and well-being, employees take their cues from the messages they see, the behaviors leaders model and the workplace norms that are reinforced every day. Communications teams play an important role in shaping those...
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