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Companies who promote a positive workplace have been found to earn an average of $80,000 to $120,000 more per month than those that don't.  That's an increase of up to $1 million or more per year just for keeping your employees happy!

what will happen in the emerging Digital Workplace field globally in 2012.

emerging Digital Workplace field globally in 2012

Work is a profoundly social activity. The design problem of cyberspace has thus become how to develop information systems that support work socially

Social media and its impact on how we learn in the workplace

The modern workplace isn’t a workplace at all. It’s a way of connecting - a way of collaborating with people you may never actually meet.

games are powerful metaphors. That means, like stories, they can and do mean different things to different people. The task of the facilitator is to ensure that all participants get the message in the game that is relevant to themselves and translate that message back to the workplace. In other words, the purpose of the game is to have participants see things differently and as a result positively change some element of their workplace behaviour.

Leverage "swift trust."

Pro-actively build interpersonal trust.

Communicate with predictability.

It seems to me that it’s time we acknowledge that the office-based ways of working are on their way out. But that doesn’t mean place is not crucial. What it does mean is that we have to think about place in an altogether more sophisticated and nuanced way.

HR the ideal spot from which to harness this change in work habits for the benefit of the company. A digital deluge of products are on offer to help human resources fulfill employees' and organizations' new demands. But which HR platforms enhance, not hinder the way we want to do our jobs and will truly help build a modern workplace?

The Collaborative Organization which is the first comprehensive strategy guide to emergent collaboration in the workplace.

A new study found that an overwhelming number of employees blame poor collaboration for failures in the workplace. Here’s an infographic that explores where these collaboration breakdowns happen — and how to prevent them in the future.

Happy employees are better equipped to handle workplace relationships, stress, and change, according to the latest GMJ survey

Regardless of country or region, employee engagement is linked to personal wellbeing, but there are significant variations

In the U.S., the most valued benefits are still focused around health care and retirement, he said, but employers also should think of other ways to make jobs more attractive, especially for younger workers who might have different preferences. They tend to favor things like flexible schedules more than their older colleagues. "Maybe it means Ping-Pong tables in the breakroom or more attractive workplaces," Foley said. "But it also could mean doing a better job communicating the value of more traditional benefits to them."

we can isolate the three main ingredients: information (CMS), communication (portal) and collaboration (web app). From my experience of helping large organizations rethink their intranet, I would had two more ingredients to form the five pillars of social intranets