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Is your working life being controlled by a robot? Or are the bots simply making your job a lot less tedious? It’s becoming the big question of today’s workplace – and a topic that’s going to continue to get hotter as Artificial Intelligence (AI) works its machine fingers further and further into every nook and cranny of our lives. Sometimes, the results of AI in the workplace can verge on disturbing. Some pickers at Amazon’s giant warehouses complain that that monitoring technology forces them to work at a relentless pace – and that the machines also provide the ticking-off if they don’t keep up. But elsewhere, human beings are finding that robot functions are taking the strain of mundane and repetitive tasks away from them, allowing them to spend their valuable time on more rewarding work. We can’t even begin to say how far AI and automation will change our working lives. Forecasts say that some jobs will be completely replaced –  bookkeeping and telemarketing ...

Bill Gates had it right when he said : “In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.” You’d think that would be true of venues, wouldn’t you? But as recent  research  has shown, venues are still grinding along, relying on manual processes and a rag-tag bunch of Microsoft desktop applications pushed beyond their original purpose. Could do better? Definitely – I can count at least five ways an integrated venue management solution can save venues time and costs: Diary it better Answer it swiftly Capture it automatically Bill for it efficiently Understand your customers deeply Diary it better There’s definitely a range of ways you can manage your diary – Outlook, Google Calendar and Excel; even a desk diary. But while these are great for personal use, they’re not so great at handling the complexity of managing multiple rooms or spaces across a team. It’s very easy to doub...

What do Google, Dixons, Marriott, Fifa, Uber, Quora and Facebook have in common? On the face of it not much – but they’re just few of the famous organisations which have fallen foul of serious data breaches since  GDPR came into force  in May 2018. And with many other organisations still struggling to get to grips with the data legislation, is there something hospitality businesses need to learn from their experience? The  Cambridge Analytica scandal  may have caused Facebook some serious reputational damage and some tricky scrutiny, but it is now apparent that the regulations are hitting companies where it hurts most – their wallets. The most recent and largest recipient of a GDPR -related fine is Google, hit with a £44m fine by France’s CNIL data watchdog. Although this seems a lot, given that the maximum fine is 4% of global turnover it is a relative bargain compared to the £3 billion it could have been. It remains to be seen what the long-term effec...

Is it really possible that not too long ago, business experts were predicting the end of meetings? They couldn’t have been more wrong; a survey last year showed that British workers spend  more than 10 hours every week  taking part in more than four meetings each. That’s a lot of meeting space needed… So it’s really no surprise that venues across the UK are reporting a boom in meeting bookings, particularly for small or urgent last-minute meetings. And as many companies downsize their premises in response to more agile working, this demand is likely to grow, too. But is your venue well-placed to take advantage of this growing revenue opportunity? For venues looking to make the most of this trend, the keyword is ‘urgent’. Fulfilling those got-to-get-together-somewhere-fast needs is a cut-throat business where only the quickest and most efficient win. So how can your venue satisfy this urgent need – and also deliver the kind of superb meeting experience that...