Show 48 – Part 1: The biggest Modern Workplace news of 2021

Ho ho ho, merry Christmas to all those who celebrate and apologies to the relentless bombardment of forced joviality to all those who don't. This week, Kevin, Al and Garry look back at the biggest topics of 2021 to see how big those new stories now feel. Strange to think that this time last year, none of us knew about Viva. Amazing to see the growth of Cyber Security and the sad fact of virtual conference fatigue. Could we really have hoped that our dream of the death of IE11 would finally come true. Join us to find out.

Below are links to news articles that we covered in previous shows on the big topics of the year:

• Microsoft Viva
• The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft Viva – by Josh Bersin
• How employers can prepare for the ‘great resignation’
• The ‘great resignation’ is a trend that began before the pandemic – and bosses need to get used to it (australiantimes.co.uk)
• Microsoft Teams Tech Conference (commsverse.com)
• South Coast Summit – A Microsoft Cloud Technology Conference
• Teams hits 250 million monthly active users
• GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
• GitHub Codespaces
• Microsoft talks about buying Discord
• Then Sony invests instead
• End of IE11

Our favourite shows – go back and give them a listen:

• Al – Live from South Coast Summit 
• Garry – Some thoughts on Design Thinking
• Kevin – Livin la Viva Loca

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