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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 ...

2 handy yet hidden Chromebook security features Chromebook security gets simpler with these ultra-useful but off-the-beaten-path options.   Google's Chrome OS is far more powerful and versatile than most folks realize -- and one of the platform's greatest strengths over traditional desktop OSs is its deceptively simple approach to security. Chromebooks, you see, make security almost entirely automatic and thought-free from a user's perspective. The devices receive regular behind-the-scenes updates with no action required on your behalf; they utilize sandboxing to keep every page and application in its own isolated environment; and their software relies on a special hardware-connected setup that ensures every computer is always running tamper-free and official Google software every time it powers up. There's no need to use antivirus programs or worry about malware . And worse comes to worst, if something does go wrong with a Chromebook, you can alwa...

Wanted to have Email's Read Receipt on G-Suite ?!    Just follow some simple steps...   1) Enable read receipts (Should be done by Administrator) As an administrator, you can allow users in your organization to request or return read receipts. A read receipt is an email notification delivered to the sender when a recipient opens an email. See   Requesting read receipts   for more information. You can also limit which senders users can return receipts to. For example, you might allow them to return receipts only to senders within your organization. You can also specify whether Gmail sends the receipt automatically when a recipient opens the message or asks recipients to approve sending the receipt; see   Returning read receipts   for more information. Important : Don't rely on read receipts for certifying mail delivery. Although read receipts generally work across email systems, you may sometimes get a receipt for an unre...

The Evolution of iOS   Progression of iOS Just as a computer would be useless without an operating system, so would a phone. In 2007, Apple changed the game with the introduction of it's smartphone and first-ever mobile operating system. The iPhone sure has evolved over the past eight years, and so has iOS. Apple has introduced features in iOS that many users wouldn't be abele to imagine life without, like iMessage, the App Store, FaceTime, Siri, iCloud, Apple Pay and so on. Here we explore the evolution of Apple's iOS and how it has shaped the functionality of the iPhone and other iOS devices, like to iPad Touch and the iPad.  iOS1 Apple's first-ever touch-centric mobile operating system was announced on Jan. 9, 2007 when former CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. The OS was enver officially recognized, but Jobs called it 'software' that runs a mobile version of Apple's desktop OS X. Features included multi-touch gestures, visual vo...