The Q4 Space Decision: What Occupiers Lock In This Month
CBRE’s new occupier research and October’s workplace technology releases have given facilities teams more to work with as 2027 budgets are signed. The big decisions are still about space, meeting rooms and trustworthy data. AI planning tools could help teams get them right.
Rebekah Carter · 24 Oct 2026
Workday’s New Platform Aims to Turn AI Job Change Into Visible Careers
AI is changing tasks faster than many employers can explain what that means for individual careers. Workday Work Intelligence aims to make the shift visible, connecting changing tasks to skills and learning paths. The idea is compelling, but early-access evidence remains limited.
Sophie Wilson · 21 Oct 2026
What HR Leaders Can Expect From UNLEASH Paris 2026
UNLEASH Paris arrives as HR leaders move from AI experiments to harder questions about skills, governance, job design, and human agency. With 8,500-plus attendees expected, UC Today heads to the event for the first time to explore what leaders can take back to work.
Sophie Wilson · 19 Oct 2026
Workday Rising Verdict: The Latest Promises Tested
Workday's getting more ambitious about what its HR agents should handle. Sana coordinates the work, Work Intelligence looks at jobs task by task, and new safeguards keep agents in check. Rising 2026 gave buyers plenty to consider, although what shipped and what it's worth are different.
Rebekah Carter · 17 Oct 2026
How Atlassian’s AMP Brings AI Agents Into Team Workflows
Atlassian has unveiled AMP to bring AI agents into everyday team workflows with shared context, visible ownership, and human oversight. Its Teamwork Graph, updated MCP server, and expanded OpenAI partnership aim to make AI work more connected, traceable, and secure.
Sophie Wilson · 14 Oct 2026
This Week: Employee Experience Faces AI’s Big Reset
Amazon is reportedly recruiting former employees for AI and cloud roles after extensive layoffs. The move raises a defining employee engagement question: can companies rebuild trust, career confidence, and loyalty when specialist talent is needed again?
Sophie Wilson · 7 Oct 2026
Amazon Boomerang Hiring Tests Employee Trust After Layoffs
Amazon is reportedly reconnecting with former employees for AI, cloud and machine learning roles after major corporate layoffs. The outreach could speed access to scarce skills, but it also tests whether returning workers trust Amazon’s leadership, career prospects and workplace expectations.
Sophie Wilson · 30 Sept 2026
How Can Companies Tame the Chaos Hybrid Work Created?
Hybrid work is making office demand harder to predict as businesses balance real-estate costs with the need to make in-person work more effective, putting greater pressure on companies to understand how employees use their workplaces and make property decisions based on evidence rather than assumpti
Kristian McCann · 29 Sept 2026
UC Awards 2026 Spotlight: The Transformation Layer
The Transformation layer at the UC Awards 2026 celebrates platforms becoming indispensable to high-performing teams. Discover how to prove your AI and automation solutions remove operational friction and drive real, measurable enterprise value. Because that's how you win.
Sean Nolan · 24 Sept 2026
Deloitte: Shadow AI Is an Employee Engagement Problem
Deloitte’s new workforce survey shows employees are adopting GenAI faster than employers can govern it. As shadow AI grows, organizations face an employee engagement challenge shaped by unclear guidance, limited training, personal spending, and fears about job security.
Sophie Wilson · 23 Sept 2026
Logitech Spot Now Integrates With 10 Workplace Platforms
Logitech's presence and environmental sensor can now integrate with 10 workplace management platforms, including Zoom, VergeSense, and Robin. This will give enterprises more ways to automate rooms and analyze space - helping them to optimize their office.
Sean Nolan · 22 Sept 2026
The Cloud Voice Migration Trap Most IT Teams Still Miss
Choosing a cloud voice platform is often the easiest part of modernisation. The harder part is understanding legacy estates, user needs, infrastructure, local requirements and resilience before a business can create an operating environment that works at scale
Christopher Carey · 22 Sept 2026
HR Updates: Oracle Layoffs, Deskless Workers, and HR Tech
This week’s employee experience news spans Oracle’s reported layoffs, a growing recognition gap for deskless workers, Globalli’s new Workday payroll integration, and HiBob’s people leadership award. Together, the stories show how trust, visibility, and reliable operations shape work.
Sophie Wilson · 21 Sept 2026
Round Up: Voice AI, Smart Glasses and Office Noise
Google is bringing voice AI to Workspace, HTC is making privacy a smart-glasses feature, and new office research highlights the cost of noise. Together, the shifts show workplace technology moving closer to employees, and deeper into the spaces where they work.
Sophie Wilson · 14 Sept 2026
The HR Mistakes That Can Derail International Expansion
Global expansion can expose businesses to legal, operational and cultural risks before an HR function is prepared to manage them, making it essential to understand the right employment models, infrastructure and processes for scaling successfully across borders
Kristian McCann · 14 Sept 2026
UC Awards 2026 Spotlight: Introducing The Future Layer
The Future layer at the UC Awards 2026 celebrates the groundbreaking immersive environments and extended reality platforms that are defining modern work. Discover exactly how to prove to the judges that your spatial computing solutions deliver real enterprise value.
Sean Nolan · 9 Sept 2026
Why Salesforce’s $166M HiBob Bet Matters for Enterprise AI
Salesforce’s $166 million investment in HiBob points to a bigger enterprise AI question: as AI agents move into daily workflows, how well do business systems understand the employees, teams, reporting lines, permissions, skills, responsibilities, and organizational context behind the work?
Sophie Wilson · 9 Sept 2026
UC Awards 2026 Spotlight: Introducing The EX Layer
The new Employee Experience layer at the UC Awards 2026 recognizes the platforms helping organizations attract and retain top talent. Discover how to prove your technology drives genuine workplace transformation and learn what our judges want to see.
Sean Nolan · 7 Sept 2026
HP Q3 Earnings: Poly Moves Into Workplace Platform
HP’s PC shipments fell 16 percent in the third quarter, even as revenue rose. As costs build, the company is widening its workplace technology strategy, bringing Poly Lens and meeting-room device management into its Workforce Experience Platform for IT teams
Christopher Carey · 27 Aug 2026
Mitel Research: Workers Are Drowning in Communication Tools
A Mitel study of 2,000 workers and IT leaders finds employees are struggling with disconnected communication tools, driving widespread use of unauthorised apps and AI despite mounting security, compliance and productivity risks facing organisations today
Christopher Carey · 26 Aug 2026
Zoom's AI Push Drives Enterprise Growth to a Three-Year High
Zoom's Q2 FY27 results show Enterprise revenue accelerating to its fastest pace in three years, as platform consolidation wins from QXO to a major US bank and a shift from AI summaries to agentic workflows point to a strategy that's starting to convert into real contract value
Marcus Law · 26 Aug 2026
UC Awards 2026: Judging Panel Announced Across 25 Categories
Here is a first look at the independent judging panel evaluating the UC Awards 2026. This year, we have assembled an expert panel of practitioners, analysts, and buyers who will be responsible for the integrity of every shortlist and winner decision
Sean Nolan · 20 Aug 2026
From ZoomMate to Zoom Spaces: How Zoom Is Building an Intelligent Workplace
Zoom Spaces brings AI-powered meeting rooms, displays and workflow context together as Zoom expands its intelligent workplace strategy.
Sophie Wilson · 12 Aug 2026
Still Using Teams Live Chat? Microsoft Just Gave You Until October to Find a Replacement
Microsoft is retiring Teams Live Chat in October 2026, just months after expanding it, pointing customers to Copilot Studio instead
Marcus Law · 10 Aug 2026
Workvivo HQ: How an AI-Native Employee Experience Could Change the Digital Workplace
Workvivo HQ brings AI, workplace communities, and HQ Agent together to help employees find trusted information.
Sophie Wilson · 10 Aug 2026
From Engineer to Executive: How Women Are Redefining Technical Leadership in Telecoms
Discover how women are building technical leadership careers in telecoms through confidence, curiosity, flexibility, and mentorship.
Sophie Wilson · 10 Aug 2026
Can HiBob Bob End HR’s Spreadsheet Chaos?
Can HiBob Bob replace HR spreadsheet chaos? Our review examines its data, workflows, AI, integrations, and best-fit buyers.
Alex Cole · 6 Aug 2026
Dreamforce 2026 Guide: What Enterprise Leaders Need to Know Before Salesforce’s Biggest Event
Dreamforce 2026 brings Salesforce customers, AI leaders, and partners to San Francisco to assess Agentforce, Claude, Slack, Data 360, and the next phase of enterprise AI. This guide covers what to watch, who should attend, and how to prepare for this massive event.
Sean Nolan · 4 Aug 2026
Samsung Galaxy XR, Ten Months On: Enterprise Breakthrough or Premium Pilot?
Samsung Galaxy XR now has Android Enterprise and Knox support. But is it ready for enterprise XR deployment or still a premium pilot?
Alex Cole · 3 Aug 2026
Cloudflare Wants to Be Your Service Assurance Control Plane
Cloudflare wants to be the service assurance control plane. Here's why Cloudflare Connectivity Cloud is worth considering.
Rebekah Carter · 1 Aug 2026
Gamma Communications’ UCaaS Innovation Arc: From Cloud Phones to AI-Ready Operations
Gamma Communications UCaaS is giving the UK UCaaS market a way forward in 2026, here's why it's worth paying attention to the pitch
Rebekah Carter · 30 Jul 2026
Silence the Noise: How Adaptive Hybrid ANC is Redefining Enterprise Audio
There is a sound that anyone who has spent time on a video call in the last five years knows well.
Christopher Carey · 30 Jul 2026
How Unilever’s U-Work Model Connects Flexible Work and the Digital Workplace
Explore how the Unilever U-Work model uses flexible employment, skills visibility, and talent marketplaces to retain workforce capability.
Sophie Wilson · 30 Jul 2026
Workday Integrates EarnIn, Broadening Its Appeal to High-Turnover Workforces
Workday has integrated EarnIn's financial wellness tools into its HR platform, potentially strengthening its appeal among employers with large hourly and high-turnover workforces
Kristian McCann · 30 Jul 2026
Women In Telecoms Podcast Episode 2: The Mentorship Gap - and How We Close It
Women in Telecoms leaders explain how mentoring, sponsorship and professional networks can support career progression.
Sophie Wilson · 30 Jul 2026
AI Is Reshaping Business Communications. Here's How to Keep Up Without Getting Burned
Pressure to adopt AI isn't coming from one source. It's coming from boards, competitors, customers who have already experienced AI-powered service…
Christopher Carey · 30 Jul 2026
Poly vs Yealink: Which Microsoft Teams Certified Devices Win in 2026?
Poly vs Yealink, which one offers the best ecosystem setup for companies investing in Microsoft Teams meeting solutions?
Rebekah Carter · 28 Jul 2026
Beyond the EPOS IMPACT 1000: Why Device Management Matters at Scale
A new workplace headset made headlines - but EPOS Manager, its device management platform, should not be overlooked.
Sean Nolan · 27 Jul 2026
NVIDIA Omniverse is Free. But Is Its Roadmap Really Built for the Immersive Workplace?
Nvidia Omniverse is now free, and the company seems to be building a roadmap that could benefit businesses investing in XR.
Rebekah Carter · 26 Jul 2026
Cisco Webex vs 8x8: The Enterprise Platform Fight Behind UC and CX
Cisco Webex vs 8x8, which platform should you be choosing if you want a unified ecosystem for unified communications and contact center tools.
Rebekah Carter · 24 Jul 2026
Zoho Workplace and WorkDrive 6.0: Zoho is Building the AI Work Layer for Regulated Industries
Zoho Workplace and WorkDrive could be giving regulated industries the work layer they need for safer AI and human work.
Rebekah Carter · 22 Jul 2026
Why Starbucks' AI Software Strategy Should Worry Enterprise App Vendors
Starbucks' AI software push signals a new phase in the enterprise AI build vs buy debate and raises pressure on app vendors.
Sophie Wilson · 21 Jul 2026
Quantum Resilience: How to Defend Against 'Store Now, Decrypt Later' Threats
Store now, decrypt later attacks are already underway. See how Cisco, Zoom, and Cellcrypt are building quantum resilience within enterprises.
Sean Nolan · 20 Jul 2026
What Kadence and Archilogic's Partnership Tells Us About the State of Workplace Management
The Kadence Archilogic partnership opens the door for stronger space management solutions, which address intelligent workplace expectations.
Sean Nolan · 20 Jul 2026
Vonage's Integration Bet: How Deep Does “CPaaS Everywhere” Actually Run?
Vonage is promising CPaaS everywhere for businesses in 2026, but how far do Vonage integrations actually run, and what does the ecosystem look like?
Rebekah Carter · 18 Jul 2026
Global Employee Engagement Drops to 20%, With New Research Pointing to a Deeper Problem
Gallup’s latest research reveals global employee engagement has fallen to 20%, with a key factor behind the workforce disconnect
Kristian McCann · 17 Jul 2026
What is a Facilities Management Analyst? Turning Workplace Data into C-Suite Insight
Skedda's new report explores the new role of the Facilities Management Analyst. Learn how they can synthesize workplace utilization data.
Sean Nolan · 15 Jul 2026
Why Microsoft Dominated B2B Brand Visibility in Q2 2026
Techtelligence reveals Microsoft captured over a third of top brand mentions. Explore how Microsoft's AI strategy drove B2B tech visibility.
Sean Nolan · 15 Jul 2026
Call for Judges: Help Recognize the Best in Workplace Tech at the UC Awards 2026
Are you a workplace tech expert? The UC Awards 2026 is looking for senior practitioners and enterprise buyers to join our judging panel.
Rob Scott · 14 Jul 2026
Salesforce Deepens Slackbot Integration to Position Slack as the Enterprise AI Orchestration Layer
Salesforce has expanded Slackbot with deeper access across its platform, marking a strategic push to turn Slack into the conversational layer where employees interact with enterprise applications, data, and AI
Kristian McCann · 9 Jul 2026
UC Awards 2026 Categories Announced: 25 Awards Shaping the Future of Work
The official UC Awards 2026 categories are live. Discover the 25 awards defining the future of workplace technology.
Rob Scott · 6 Jul 2026
The Invisible Workplace: What Meeting Room Behaviour Reveals About Hybrid Work
In this UC Today interview, Marcus Law speaks with Bill Dellara, Chief Product Officer at VOSS , about why meeting room analytics has become a critical…
Marcus Law · 1 Jul 2026
Why Can't Your Organisation Redeploy Talent Fast Enough When Priorities Change?
Enterprises hire externally while internal talent goes undeployed. Learn why talent mobility fails and how to fix workforce redeployment.
Alex Cole · 29 Jun 2026
Watercooler Moments Are Fading, and Meetings Are Left to Carry Workplace Connection
Meetings are increasingly becoming the main point of employee interaction as traditional “watercooler” conversations fade, according to new research from Kahoot!
Kristian McCann · 26 Jun 2026
Is Employee Engagement Failing Because No One Actually Owns It?
Employee engagement fails when ownership is unclear. Here's how to assign accountability and fix the structure driving disengagement
Sophie Wilson · 22 Jun 2026
InfoComm 2026: Mariana Atencio on Trust, AI, and Hybrid Work
Mariana Atencio says trust now underpins hybrid work, AI, ProAV and collaboration tech, from AVIXA to secure meeting rooms.
Marcus Law · 19 Jun 2026
How to Connect Workplace Data Sources That Were Never Designed to Work Together
Discover why workplace analytics fail when data remains siloed. Learn how enterprise data unification connects space and systems effectively.
Sean Nolan · 18 Jun 2026
Why Enter The UC Awards 2026? Where Workplace Technology Outcomes Are Proven
Register for the UC Awards 2026 to showcase how your technology drives workplace productivity and elevates the employee experience.
Rob Scott · 18 Jun 2026
Flip Launches Identity and Automation Tools to Enhance Frontline AI Use
Flip has introduced new identity, automation, and AI tools designed to help frontline workers securely access enterprise systems and workflows
Kristian McCann · 18 Jun 2026
Your Wellbeing Strategy Isn't Reducing Burnout - It's Ignoring the Work Causing It
Most employee wellbeing strategies fail to prevent burnout. Here's why workload design is the fix HR keeps missing.
Sophie Wilson · 15 Jun 2026