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What are the digital tools of the employee experience?

Several months ago, during a conversation, someone said to me "I still need to think about our Employee Experience offering and above all the tools". To tell you the truth, this didn't make me feel very good. I really like people who take the time to think before they act...

After the crisis, leaders will refocus on the essential. But on what?

What do business leaders have in mind as the end of the crisis approaches? During the complicated period we have just experienced, they have of course thought about it, having to jointly manage a chaotic present and think about what their business will be after the crisis. This crisis was...

Microsoft Viva: a market revolution?

Following my latest article introducing Microsoft Viva, Microsoft's Employee Experience Platform, many people asked me if I thought it was going to be a revolution in the market. I will try to answer this question here. Is the Employee Experience Platform a market? Before knowing if Viva is going to revolutionize...

Employee experience is sick of the software industry

One of the major problems with employee experience is the disruption in work flow or information flow caused by the tools used. When I became really interested in the subject, it wasn't so much (or not at all) for the well-being or fulfillment of employees, but to put an end...

Microsoft Viva: the revolution in employee experience platforms?

A few weeks ago Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Viva, its employee experience platform and one of the first products that really claims to be one on the market. I will start by looking at this product from the user's point of view before looking at the "market" dimension...

Real “digital working” may not be far away. And not as cool as expected

COVID-19 led to forced remote work, forced and coerced adoption of new communication tools and uses, and I hear many people say that a milestone has been reached and that there will be no turning back. The big step back after COVID To me nothing is less sure. More and more employees...

A complicated IT experience. Irritant #7 of the Employee Experience

In the mid-2000s there was a lot of talk about the consumerization of IT in the workplace. This term referred to the fact that the uses of the consumer world were going to spread throughout the workplace and that the tools it uses would also, in terms of user...

No, technology won’t help you to manage your time

In a world where everything is accelerating, where the multiplication of communication channels is scattering our attention and where the complexity of organizations causes an accumulation of sometimes contradictory priorities, time management becomes a major challenge for everyone. Managing your time means prioritizing and allocating it Time management means two things:...

Candidate.ID: how to nurture your candidate base

Another startup that caught my attention in Unleash Amsterdam: Candidate.ID. I had already spotted them and talked to them last year and I took the opportunity to look at their product in more detail. They won the startup competition at Unleash this year, which makes me think I had a...

Pathmotion: improve the storytelling of your employer brand

After Golden Bees, Pathmotion is the second startup I spotted at Unleash18 in Amsterdam. For me Pathmotion is a natural evolution of HR marketing and candidate experience for different reasons. The first is that just as the brand no longer belongs to the company but to its customers, the employer brand...