Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

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How People Analytics Can Help You Build the Organization of The Future

People analytics is a core foundation for being able to create employee experiences. In today’s world, any company can replicate your business model, the goods you produce, or the services you offer. The only thing that organizations cannot copy is your people–they are your greatest competitive advantage. People analytics gives organizations the data and the insights they need to make people-related decisions while also empowering organizations to test ideas and run experiments. […]

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How Science Fiction Helps Us Predict and Create The Future

We see research and reports about what the future of life and work will be, but it can be hard to imagine how the research will actually play out and affect our everyday lives. If you’re struggling to imagine the future with autonomous vehicles, implanted phones, or machine learning, look no further than science fiction books and movies. […]

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Does Employee Experience Matter in the Growing Gig Economy?

Does focusing on employee experience even make sense in a world that is supposedly going to be dominated by freelancers and short-term employees? There’s been a lot of debate and confusion around this space, so it only makes sense to explore what’s going on here. Alternative work arrangements include everyone from Uber drivers to construction workers who work on independent contracts to those of us who work with staffing agencies for temporary employment. […]

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3 Lessons from Airbnb on Creating an Amazing Employee Experience

Most anyone who has done even a small amount of traveling knows about Airbnb. The company has transformed how travelers get accommodations, interact with new cultures, and visit locations around the world. But beyond the customer-facing model, the company is also a leader in creating a strong employee experience. Instead of following the traditional business model, Airbnb creates change and empowers employees at all levels, which has a huge effect on the success of the company, both monetarily and culturally. […]

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3 Ways The Role Of IT Is Changing

In the last decade, the role of the CIO and of IT in general has changed drastically. Instead of simply trying to get technology to the company for the least amount of money possible, the IT department today plays a much larger role in the overall strategy of the company. There’s never been a more exciting time to be in HR. Here are three of the biggest ways the role of IT is changing with the future of work. […]

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Why You Should Turn Your Company Into A Platform

Organizational structures and management styles come and go with the times, but some seem to stick around for longer and produce more successful companies. The latest version is the idea of a platform company, which is making waves across industries and changing how companies and employees think about collaboration and sharing ideas. […[

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What’s the Difference Between Employee Engagement and Experience?

We talk a lot about employee experience and engagement, but what does that actually mean and can the two work together? Is it just free meals and on-site yoga, or does it go deeper? In doing research for my latest book on employee experience I found that the truth is that employee engagement and experience are vital keys that work together to improve culture. […]

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How to Develop the Future Employee

It used to be that being an employee was a fairly well-defined process: people joined a company and stayed with that organization for their entire career, working their way up the ladder and building a nice retirement package. However, that career path is fast becoming the exception rather than the norm, as the idea of what it means to be an employee is constantly changing. […]

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These Are The Lowest Scoring Companies For Employee Experience

For the past few years I’ve been studying employee experience and with the help of Cisco and Lever, embarked on a research project to study and analyze over 250 organizations around the world including the Fortune 100 and the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work. The findings of this research are detailed in my new book called, The Employee Experience Advantage. I recently shared the top companies for employee experience, today I want to share the lowest scoring ones. […]

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What Would the World Be Like if We All Loved Our Jobs?

When you wake up in the morning, are you filled with excitement about the prospect of a new day at work, or do you dread the thought of having to make it through yet another day of drudgery? If you’re like much of the population, you fall into the latter category and distain going to work. Surveys have found that only 13% of people around the world actually like going to work–an astoundingly low number. […]

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