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Company culture is a lot like meetings and memos: it's an inescapable, and inevitable, part of the employee (and candidate) experience. But with the rise of social media, virtual employees and global teams, new business paradigms mean that when it comes to communicating culture and developing an authentic and resonant employer brand, it's anything but business as usual.

Workforce agility allows an organisation to establish the optimal workforce to support an organisation's objectives. We define agile working practices along four dimensions: * Time: when do they work? (e.g. part-time working; staged retirement) * Location: where do they work? (e.g. people working across multiple sites) * Role: what do they do?

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Why PR is SEO's best friend

"The average age of people in PwC is 28 and a few months and we found that more and more of them just could not cope with the way we wanted them to work. They told us that the way we did things was too old-fashioned and too difficult.

commentary on how the culture and recruitment story has changed since Cook took over

At last - some primary research into content sharing on websites.  Main finding:  social media sharing isn't much used on B2B sites.  Which chimes with our experience from site stats.

CIPD research reveals a gulf in expectations between young people and employers that is contributing to high levels of youth unemployment There is a clear mismatch between employers' expectations of young people during the recruitment process and young people's understanding of what is expected of them.

Last week, we welcomed Brian Solis, Altimeter principal analyst, thought leader and book author, to Yammer HQ to give a fireside chat, followed by signing of his new book: "What's The Future of Business?"

Suppose you want to design the best company on earth to work for. What would it be like? For three years we've been investigating this question by asking hundreds of executives in surveys and in seminars all over the world to describe their ideal organization.

What do you find most important? Select the criteria that you find most important in an employer and find out which Top Employer offers you the best fit. Navigate the tool below and find those Top Employers that meet the criteria that are most important to you at this stage of your career.