Adi Gaskell
Forbes
United Kingdom
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The Pressing Need To Grow The Cyber Workforce
The cybersecurity skills gap has been well documented in recent years, but despite increased awareness of the scale of the problem, the growing demand for cybersecurity skills has meant the size of the challenge has certainly not diminished. → Read More
How The Untapped Workforce Can Help You Survive The Great Resignation
For the past few years, I’ve posted up three lectures over the Christmas period that I think provide an interesting commentary on key issues of our time. This year, I would like to focus on the untapped workforce that so often gets overlooked for vacancies. → Read More
How Leaders Can Get Better At Talking About Failure
While failure may be sexier than its ever been, it can still be difficult to admit to our mistakes. New research explores the various ways we can tell that story. → Read More
Women’s Potential Is Undervalued At Work
New research highlights how women's leadership potential is consistently undervalued despite strong performance at work → Read More
How To Form Bonds In A Virtual Workplace
If hybrid workplaces are to become the norm, then it's vital that managers understand how to help employees build friendships at work in this virtual environment → Read More
Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia
Estonia is regarded as one of the most entrepreneurial nations on earth. What lessons can be learned about how entrepreneurs can be grown? → Read More
Why Amplifying Colleagues' Voices At Work Benefits Us All
Speaking up at work is often hard, especially for those who lack status. New research explores how having colleagues amplify your ideas can boost both you and them. → Read More
To Get People Back To The Workplace We Need To Create Healthy Buildings
As employers are discussing how and when to welcome employees back to the office, it's vital that their emotional and physical wellbeing is catered for to ensure that this return is a willing one. → Read More
How Non-Financial Rewards Widen Workplace Inequality
Widening inequality has been a hot topic in recent years, but new research suggests that the traditional measure of inequality is not broad enough and we need to consider non-monetary rewards from work too → Read More
Getting Man And Machine To Collaborate Might Not Be As Easy As We Think
Garry Kasparov argues that the best results emerge when man and machine work together, but new research highlights how this might not be easy to achieve → Read More
Why People Don't Always Speak Up At Work
Speaking up at work has numerous benefits, from boosting innovation to rooting out malevolence. It's not something that comes easily, however, and new research explores what prompts people to stay quiet → Read More
Transparency Is Key To Removing The Gender Pay Gap
A new paper from Washington University in St. Louis highlights how a lack of transparency around pay contributes to the enduring pay gap between men and women. → Read More
The Importance Of Exergaming When Working Remotely
With more and more people working remotely not only do challenges exist around employee health and wellbeing, but also about how to successfully onboard and build cohesive teams. Could exergaming provide an answer? → Read More
Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19
Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it's perhaps no surprise that a new report from the London School of Economics shows that job-based training is no different. → Read More
Are We Still Attracted By The Bright Lights?
Covid-19 has seen people exchange the bright lights of the city for the calmer environs of small towns, where they can work remotely. New modeling explores whether this shift might be permanent. → Read More
The Rise Of The On-Demand Workforce
Covid-19 has fundamentally changed many aspects of working life, but a new report argues that it is likely to herald a more widespread adoption of contingent workers as an "on-demand workforce" emerges. → Read More
The Importance Of Immigrants For The Future Of Tech
The importance of migrants was underlined during the Covid-19 crisis when it was revealed that the founders of both BioNTech and Moderna are immigrants to the United States and Germany respectively. New research suggests that the future of AI is being held back by restrictive immigration policies → Read More
How Society Benefits If We Make It Easier For Refugees To Enter The Workforce
With countries around the world creating a 'hostile environment' for refugees and other migrants, it can often be challenging to fully utilize the skills and work ethic refugees bring. Some inspiring examples exist of how these barriers are being removed, but more should be done. → Read More
Is Flexible Work Key To Attracting The Brightest Talents?
Flexible work has a number of proven benefits in terms of productivity and employee engagement, but is it also valuable from a recruiting perspective? New research explores how important it can be for the brightest talent. → Read More
The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy
AI has made fortunes for tech companies who have vast quantities of data to play with, but they often rely upon a hidden workforce working for peanuts to help them make sense of that data. Can this relationship be made more equitable? → Read More