The CIPD’s Working Live Scotland 2023 report, which has recently been published, provides a valuable insight into various aspects of Scottish people’s contemporary experiences of work, on topics as diverse as pay, job quality, employee voice, and the impact of the cost of living crisis. It is based on a…
On 22nd November 2022, Professor Donald Hislop, and Luciana Blaha (Associate Professor, Heriot Watt University), presented a seminar on the implementation of artificial intelligence technologies, which was organised and hosted by the Scottish AI Alliance. While it was an online event, it was not on one of the usual technology…
In the podcast episode I was recently a guest on alongside Dr. Luciana Blaha for the Scottish Artificial Intelligence Alliance, one of the key challenges to the implementation of AI technologies at work that is discussed is the level of trust that workers and customers have in artificial intelligence and robotics…
While the coronavirus pandemic represents the most immediate, and very significant challenge to the world, the impact of climate change on the planet arguably represents a bigger long-term challenge for humanity. Evidence of the negative impact of human activity on the planet’s ecosystem has become increasingly visible over recent years,…
As someone who has written about home working for many years, and who has practiced flexible, part time home working for over 20 years, the current need to home-work due to the coronavirus situation should come naturally. This blog is not intended as a ‘how to’ manual, but it will…
I have just returned from my first visit to Taiwan, to give a keynote talk at a conference on Artificial Intelligence organised by the College of International Studies and Social Sciences at the National Taiwan Normal University, which is located in Taipei. I gave the opening keynote talk, on the…
Ongoing developments in computer and communication technology, combined with worker’s rights to request flexible working, mean that opportunities to work remote from a fixed office base are becoming increasingly significant for a growing number of workers. The recently published CIPD report on Megatrends in Flexible Working provides some interesting insights…
Professor Donald Hislop of the University of Aberdeen Business School considers opportunities and challenges facing the NHS regarding adoption of digital technology.
From the use of smartphone Apps, telephone or video appointments, the automation of diagnostic imaging via artificial intelligence, and robot-augmented surgery, digital technologies have the potential to transform…
