Tech

What Can We Expect This Year?

We’ve seen lots of thought-provoking workplace predictions for the year ahead, many of which will affect you as an EA. Here’s a round-up of...

Taxpaying robots welcome?

Recent research from project management software company Workfront suggests three in four UK workers welcome the rise of robotics in the workplace. Respondents praised...

Back to basics for password protection

W ith almost half of us using the same password for everything at work and half of us claiming to know the password of at...

‘Appy New Year

T ech-expert Tim Stackpool gives lowdown on the must-have apps for EAs in 2018   As a high-level PA, the expectations upon you are as varied...

EA to a manager 1,000 miles away

Whether you're a permanent virtual PA or your boss is just partial to an overseas trip or ten, Tim Stackpool shares the top tools for EAs working...

Business cards no more?

In China they say to make friends first then do business. And, although traditional corporate etiquette is still to present a business card with...

Artificial intelligence and the EA

  Virtual digital assistants, such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, have become a fixture in daily life and their cross-over into the business world...

Australian Workplaces Not Future-Proofed for Digital Revolution

A national survey that will have particular significance to EAs and PAs who work at the heart of their organisations, suggests that Australian businesses are...

Jobs lost to automation won’t be coming back

A report from the Oxford Martin School in 2013 concluded that 47% of manufacturing jobs were susceptible to automaton. A recent report from the...

Technology Finally Explained

There’s no escaping the general rise of ‘techo-speak' in our general vocabulary. The almost ubiquitous nature of computers and smart phones in the workplace...

Virtual Venue Tours heat-up the Conferencing Competition

Disneyland itself is a place of wonder, mixing traditional entertainment technology with the latest high-tech. Disney Business Solutions has now added the ‘wow’ factor...

Security Update: Hacked email accounts being sold online

More than 25 million Gmail and Yahoo accounts are being sold online, according to a new report. According to HackRead, a hacker named SunTzu583 is asking...