If you want to learn more, I recommend this article by The Verge. However, when it does actually arrive, it will have far-reaching implications on the way we live, work, and play. It’s abstract, expansive, and - in many ways - not even real yet. What is the ✨ metaverse? ✨ Honestly, there isn’t enough time to get into it here. The announcement was paired with a sneak peak of their first journey into the metaverse: Project Cambria, a VR and AR headset. And now we have a name that reflects the breadth of what we do.” The announcement is not necessarily all that shocking Zuckerberg has always been vocal about his plans to expand Facebook’s presence in the physical and digital world. “But all of our products, including our apps, now share a new vision: to help bring the metaverse to life. ? “Our mission remains the same - it’s still about bringing people together,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Founder’s Letter about the announcement. ? Mark Zuckerberg is now the CEO of Meta, the rebranded corporate parent of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. In a video played during Facebook Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks through a crisp white office building in Silicon Valley - except it isn’t the Facebook office anymore. If you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the past week, you’ve probably seen at least one article (or meme) about the latest Facebook news. Next on the horizon: keep an eye out for the introduction of artificial intelligence capabilities ? which many SaaS providers hope to leverage as ways for organizations to better track productivity and identify pain points in remote work processes. Because companies rapidly deployed remote work systems at the start of the pandemic, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has also increased significantly in popularity, ??complementing the transition away from enterprise systems.
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Above all, the report forecasts cloud-based software to have the highest growth amongst products within the market.
Market MovesĪ report from Allied Market Research is anticipating 13.2% growth in the team collaboration software market ????? between 20, reaching a staggering $26.5 billion. It’s time for employees to have their day in the sun. Its shareholders have hugely benefitted from Amazon’s rapid growth. Amazon’s customers can have almost anything under the sun delivered to them in less than two days. Amazon is more than capable of investing in custom digital people management programs - especially considering the returns from reducing burnout and improving worker experience.Īt the end of the day, every organization has three constituencies: their customers, their shareholders, and their employees. ?️ Is it a difficult decision to make? Absolutely not.
? ?️ ? Without an existing suite of tools capable of managing the scale of their operations, though, it’s likely that Amazon will need to build their own proprietary software. Amazon is in desperate need of digital transformation. What’s to be done? The answer is simple, albeit an enormous undertaking. The results have been consistently devastating. ? As a result, employees are falling through the cracks thanks to a disjointed mashup of HR software.
The expose, which I discuss in more detail later in this issue, highlights the fact that the majority of Amazon’s struggles come from the fact that no HR software capable of supporting strong people operations policies exists at the necessary scale. With close to a million workers, the company is responsible for the health, safety, and wellbeing of one in every 150 members of the US workforce. Amazon is the second largest employer in the nation. ? It left me harkening back to a phrase many of us will remember well and with disdain: too big to fail. My ThoughtsĪs someone who has devoted their career to creating a better workplace, the recent New York Times piece detailing Amazon’s staggering HR struggles, and its devastating impacts on some workers, was an incredibly tough read. I never found it - so I decided to build it.Įvery week, I’ll be sharing fresh insights on tech platforms, design, data, and the future of work - straight to your inbox. For some time, I’ve been looking for one “source” that curates modern takes on HR Tech, perspectives from the people who build it, and its impact on enterprise - something that’s tailor-made by professionals for decision-makers.