Desai Tech Solutions

The science of keeping teams happy and engaged Q&A with Laszlo Bock, author of "Work Rules!" Google Cloud President Amit Singh talked with Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google and author of “Work Rules!” on the science of keeping teams happy & engaged. Amit Singh: In your new book, “Work Rules!” you share insights from your leadership experience and research. What inspired you to put these insights out to a more general audience? Laszlo Bock: We spend more time working than we do anything else. More time even than we spend with our loved ones! And yet, for too many people, their job is just a means to an end. But work can and should be so much more. We’ve learned a lot over the years about what makes work...

The Total Economic Impact™ of Google's  G Suite Companies across the globe face increasing pressure to stay competitive and meet their customers’ needs. Tools that allow teams to share ideas instantly, attend meetings remotely, collaborate from anywhere in real time and work on the go are helping companies innovate and engage customers in this new competitive landscape. These types of outcomes are possible only by “pure” cloud-based architectures that overcome the inefficiencies of legacy desktop-centric computing. While it’s easy to understand how collaboration and mobility impact our day-to-day work, it’s more difficult for organizations to quantify these benefits in monetary terms. So Google commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a T...

Microsoft lays off thousands of staff as it commits to the cloud   The Seattle-based computing giant is laying off thousands of staff in a reorganisation around selling cloud computing infrastructure and services Microsoft is cutting around ten percent of its global sales force as part of a broad reorganisation to focus on selling its cloud services under the Azure brand. In an official statement last week the company said: "Microsoft is implementing changes to better serve our customers and partners. Today, we are taking steps to notify some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be eliminated. "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time-to-time, re-deployment in others." With a global salesforce of 50,000 people this could mean 5,000 peop...

G Suite does that? 5 things you may not know about G Suite  With over  two million paying organizations actively using G Suite, cloud collaboration is becoming mainstream, but you might be surprised at how powerful and versatile it is. Check out these short videos to see how you can use G Suite to do these 5 things everyday. 1. Engage the community in your company Want to tap into all the insight and expertise in every corner of your company? You can’t do it quickly or efficiently with memos and emails. But create a private social network using Google+ and you suddenly have an easy way for employees to post updates, share ideas and connect on any project. You can ...