Employee referrals contribute to a chunk of hires

For organisations, value creation and preservation are key to avoid destruction

… you agree with someone’s view but just cannot acknowledge it with a firm ‘yes’

Big Data is a key raw material, and processing it can make or break an enterprise

Learning to recognise the impact past experiences have on present behaviour can unlock your true potential

Top management talent from across the world heading to India

A culture of merit, a flexible environment and empowering technology are key to engaging the workforce of today

Find that sweet spot between loving what you do and doing what you love

Learning and development programmes are more than mere skill updates – they can be the key to employee retention

Keeping employees informed about pay decisions is key to attracting and retaining talent

Safeguard your professionalism by recognising your strengths and standing firm in the way you conduct business

A bigger paycheck is not the solution; ensuring a shared commitment to mutual growth is

In e-commerce, the quality of last mile connectivity determines who wins and who loses

Vinita Shrivastava, Senior Director at Harman India, on how to ensure loyalty while helping employees reach personal goals

Technology is transforming finance functions — and the finance executive

Handling the organisation’s ‘resources’ in a ‘humane’ manner is the way forward for HR

The best way to conquer fear is to be true to oneself

The decision to sell apples by weight and not box will benefit growers

Farmers associated with as many as 16 farmer outfits from the States Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand would be participating

Minister Carlos Fávaro offers transfer of technology to India to boost cooperative production

What are the measures the government is taking to bring down the increasing price of rice?

The new MSP for a quintal of wheat is ₹2,425 in comparison to ₹2,275 per quintal, which was in place for the previous rabi season

A group of Indian Ocean islanders, forcibly removed from their homes 50+ years ago and deported to England, are still fighting for recognition and basic rights. By Alexi Demetriadi.

Chandan Robert Rebeiro captures a budding Bangladeshi photographer.

Britain’s largest festival about refugees and sanctuary is more relevant than ever, writes Lydia Noon.

What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement? Mark Engler asks.

It’s against the Constitution, and means Norway will not respect the Paris Agreement, argues Tina Andersen Vågenes.

Kim Jong-un's headline grabbing aggressive irrationalism takes some beating (though he might have met his match in recent times...)

Rûwâhîne by Ifriqiyya Electrique; The Underside of Power by Algiers: our music reviews of the month.

The guerrillas are handing weapons over to the UN, but they are in fear. Thomas Mortensen reports from Urabá.

A source of corruption and environmental degradation. Rod Harbinson reports.

How Senegal is trying to involve the diaspora to curb emigration. By Sofia Christensen

KidZania is an unashamed shrine to the sterile, dystopian human-made landscapes, comedian Steve Parry writes.

We talked to homeless in different countries and they revealed housing insecurity's different causes around the world.

For years, designers have used Lorem Ipsum text as a placeholder in interface design layouts. But unless you're designing a pseudo-Latin text reader, using actual content provides a much more realistic picture of what a UI design needs to support. Today Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide designers with highly relevant content instantly so Lorem Ipsum can finally die.

It's long been argued (well at least by me in 2019) that using Lorem Ipsum text to mock up application interfaces fails to represent real content, often leading to usability issues and unrealistic designs that don't account for actual text lengths, line breaks, or content hierarchy in a final product. But Lorem Ipsum persisted as a design tool of choice because getting real content was hard.

To get very realistic content, designers would need access to where real content existed or pester engineers or domain experts to collect realistic content for them. It's not hard to see why some of these requests took a while or never got prioritized. And while some teams took the time to build tooling that enabled more realistic content in the design process, Lorem Ipsum was a much easier path for most.

Today, Large Language Models (LLMs) can not only generate sample content but also create highly specific and relevant content for just about any application you're designing. And given these tools are fast, widely available and free, there's no excuse to not use very realistic content in application designs. For example, if designing a food delivery app. A few prompts will give you real content, real quick.

So there's no excuses for Lorem Ipsum no more.

Browsing the Web on your smartphone these days can feel like a gauntlet: accept this cookie consent, close this newsletter promo, avoid this app install banner. This morass of attention-seeking actions makes it hard to focus on content. Enter Apple's Distraction Control feature.

There's more than 7 billion active smartphones on the planet. This is the Web they are getting.

I won't get into how the Web became a minefield of pop-ups, banners, overlays, modals, and other forms of annoyance. For that you can take a look at my Mind the Gap presentation which goes into depth on why and what designers can do about it. But it's pretty clear the average mobile Web experience sucks.

And when things suck, people usually decide to do something about it. In this case, with iOS 18, Apple is giving average folks a chance to fight back with Distraction Control. When turned on, this new feature allows anyone to remove distracting elements on Web pages complete with a satisfying animation.

Newsletter pop-up? Boom, gone. Mobile app banner? Boom. Interstitial ad? Boom. Is it perfect? No. Elements might come back after you remove them if the page is reloaded. Accessing the control takes a few taps. But it's a way for people to fight back against Web clutter and we need more.

Exhibition: 28 Mar 2018 - 29 Mar 2018, London, United Kingdom. Organized by The IET.

Technique could be used to create quantum-information systems

Diplomacy is like a woman. You never know what diplomats think or feel. The recent Ford controversy also makes us wonder whether Italy gave up its humour for tough diplomacy

Often in life, we tend to underestimate people. But when we look at things in proper perspective we realise that people are far better than what we thought of them!

The Chennai Corporation Mayor last week said vacant lands will be used to construct Amma theatres. It would be, instead, better to come up with small playgrounds that can stand in good stead on a long term.