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Beam Australia launches US $ 1.5 million start-up to improve diversity and tackle employee burnout
Australian flexible work company , Beam Australia , has launched a new cloud-based , data-driven start-up and platform , Beamible , to uncover workforce insights that help organisations improve hybrid and flexible work design , recognise new risks in a hybrid workplace , create a more inclusive workforce and tackle fastaccelerating issues such as employee burnout .
Designed and engineered in Australia , Beamible is a SaaS platform that takes a ‘ bottom-up , people-led ’ approach to people analytics and includes a simple user interface to enable all staff , HR leaders and CEOs to use it . The company received AU $ 400,000 from the recent Accelerating Commercialisation Grant via the Department of Industry , adding to over AU $ 1.1 million raised in private investment .
The platform has been successfully piloted with companies including NRMA , Metcash , General Mills , The TOM Co and not-for-profit , B Lab , with feedback highlighting Beamible has been a major driver in pilot companies ’ gender diversity and flexible work programmes , a key issue as top Australian companies struggle to move the dial on diversity , particularly in leadership roles .
New B2B app connects Bio-Oil brand community across the globe using Microsoft Azure
Eighty-five percent of organisations using Microsoft 365 have suffered email data breaches , research by Egress reveals
Union Swiss has launched an Instagram-style mobile app that provides its global distributors with a platform that allows them to access news and information from Bio-Oil . The platform connects a community of independently owned companies across 154 countries .
Not only can the Bio-Oil community share its own work and view the work of other
distributors , but it enables the Union Swiss team to communicate with its extensive pool of distributors .
Some of the key features include profiles for different distributors , a newsfeed where people can upload videos and photos , as well as a contact list detailing the different distributors across disparate regions .
Bluegrass Digital designed and developed the new Instagram-style mobile app that provides quick and easy access to content . The project used an Agile methodology to deliver both the iOS and Android mobile app during the height of the pandemic . The back office app services and API were architected on Microsoft Azure technology .
Research has revealed organisations using Microsoft 365 experience more breaches , with more severe impacts .
Egress ’ Outbound Email : Microsoft 365 ’ s Security Blind Spot report has revealed that 85 % of organisations using Microsoft 365 have suffered email data breaches in the last 12 months .
Remote working has exacerbated the risk of an email
data breach even more for Microsoft users , with 67 % of IT leaders reporting an increase in data breaches due to working from home , versus just 32 % of IT leaders whose organisations aren ’ t using Microsoft 365 . Looking to the future , 76 % of IT leaders report that remote and hybrid working will make it harder to prevent email data loss from Microsoft 365 , compared to 40 % of those not using it .
The study , independently conducted by Arlington Research on behalf of Egress , interviewed 500 IT leaders and 3,000 remote-working employees in the US and UK across vertical sectors including financial services , healthcare and legal .
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