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Stop generalizing the open office
Introduction There has been a lot of attention to the performance of open-space offices. Recently, for example, a Dutch television program created nationwide ruckus with a reportage on the cohesion between open offices and sick leave. It looked into and referred to a...
Why the Best Companies Practice Self-Reflection
By Jill LaBarre and Stephen Smith “How was your day?” This question is asked millions of times across the world every day. Why? Because we all share a thirst for collecting new information. As humans, we are constantly exploring and learning, most often from people...
Artificial Intelligent Architecture and Design.
https://youtu.be/kdfTxIwO0ZA The full video about the AI project of Axel Nordin, Superlab and WPA. In 2018 Superlab, one of our partners approached us to see how our behavioral workforce data could not only provide outcomes to help design future work environments but...
Why the Workplace Industry has a hard time catching up with automation
There is no denying possible, the main roles in our industry will drastically change in the next few decades. Depending on how you experience change in itself, this is either very exciting or worrisome. We believe it is rather exciting. Also: watch our 9-minute...
The Value of Self-Reported Data in Organizational Intelligence
Author: Stephen Smith MSc, WPA head of people & strategy In psychology, self-reporting is when an individual communicates his or her own behaviors, thoughts, or attitudes. Self-reported data is typically collected in writing, electronic format, or during an...
WPA 6 differentiators..
Watch a short movie about the 6 important differentiators that makes WPA so powerful in making work better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3t6gPb5pc4
The 7 traits of valuable People Analytics
As the world of people analytics evolves and we become increasingly reliant on data to inform our organizations, it is critical to know the methodologies that are influencing our information. There are risks and opportunities that exist in people analytics. With...
Part 4: Engagement Is Dead – What Else is Missing?
By now, you probably understand the many issues I take up with measuring employee engagement. If not, check out the other posts in this series to understand my thoughts on how we measure engagement, what metrics we’re measuring and what we do with the data we collect...
Part 3: Engagement Is Dead – What We Do with Data
Employee engagement is an often studied, rarely understood beast. My issue with the concept stands with how we measure engagement, what metrics we’re measuring and what we do with the data we collect from our efforts. We’ve already covered the flaws in how we collect...
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