Gartner predicts that by 2029, 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired, often at a significantly higher cost. While workforce cuts may deliver short-term financial gains, they deplete talent pipelines and erode institutional knowledge, according to the market researcher. With labor force [...]
Gartner: Many People Laid Off in Favor of AI Will Need to Be Rehired Gartner predicts that by 2029, 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired, often at a significantly higher cost. While workforce cuts may deliver short-term financial gains, they deplete [...]
Exclaimer, a Boston- and London-based email signature management company, has rolled out “MSP Connect,” a new partner program designed to help MSPs provision, manage and grow centralized email signature services across multiple customer environments. The program provides a centrally-managed service across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace that brings together a [...]
A confidence trap has taken hold in U.S. workplaces: employees feel fluent with artificial intelligence, but for many the results don’t yet match that confidence. This is according to the “AI at Work Pulse Survey” by San Francisco-based WalkMe, an SAP company which has tracked U.S. workers’ use of AI [...]
Only 22% of organizations have successfully scaled AI across multiple business units or adopted an AI-first approach according to a survey by Gartner. Roughly 11% of organizations are entirely unaware of what their function spent on AI in 2025. A Gartner survey from January-April 2026 of 1,303 respondents from organizations [...]
Gartner: Only 22% of Organizations Have Successfully Scaled AI Across Multiple Business Units Only 22% of organizations have successfully scaled AI across multiple business units or adopted an AI-first approach according to a survey by Gartner. Roughly 11% of organizations are entirely unaware of what their function spent on AI [...]
Technology occupation employment increased in August and employer demand for new tech talent remained strong, according to analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by CompTIA, a suburban Chicago-based industry association. Tech occupation employment, which includes tech professionals working across all industry sectors, increased by 86,000 workers [...]
TD Synnex has expanded the vendor reach of its PartnerFirst digital customer experience platform with the addition of data from Cisco and Microsoft. The move is expected to give partners greater visibility, automation and insight across the customer lifecycle. “Partners don't need more dashboards. They need better methods to help [...]
Black Kite, a Boston-based company specializing in third-party cyber risk management, has issued a new market research report suggesting that ransomware criminals are more likely to pursue mid-market targets, as opposed to enterprise targets. Assessing more than 120,000 mid-market organizations across North America and Europe from an attacker's perspective, the [...]
New Research: Ransomware's Primary Target Is the Mid-Market Black Kite, a Boston-based company specializing in third-party cyber risk management, has issued a new market research report suggesting that ransomware criminals are more likely to pursue mid-market targets, as opposed to enterprise targets. Assessing more than 120,000 mid-market organizations across North [...]
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