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The Trump administration is set to terminate a program initiated by Elon Musk that required federal employees to summarize their weekly achievements. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) plans to announce the end of the so-called "five things" email, which aimed to enhance accountability but faced backlash from department heads and confusion among workers. Scott Kupor, a venture capitalist who took over at OPM last month, had previously described the processing of the weekly response emails as "very manual" and "not efficient." He had said: "It is "something that we should look at and see, like, are we getting the value out of it that at least the people who put it in place thought they were." The decision marks a shift away from one of Musk's most controversial initiatives, following tensions between him and President Trump over various issues.
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Nearly two-thirds (64%) of senior IT decision makers at large companies expect their HR and IT functions to merge within five years, according to a survey by Nexthink, a firm that makes workplace software. Tracey Franklin, the chief people and digital technology officer at biotechnology company Moderna, says her role is being an architect of how work is done. She explains: "I am responsible for the entire HR function and the entire IT function . . . It's [about] how work flows through the organisation, and what should be done with technology – whether that's hardware or software or AI – and where you complement human skills around that." Meanwhile, software company Covisian merged its IT and HR teams in 2023 under the leadership of Fabio Sattolo, chief people and technology officer. He was previously CTO. "If we bring [IT and people] together, we can have a common vision for how technology can have an impact on people and how people can adapt and evolve to leverage the new technology," Sattolo says.
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Europe
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of senior IT decision makers at large companies expect their HR and IT functions to merge within five years, according to a survey by Nexthink, a firm that makes workplace software. Tracey Franklin, the chief people and digital technology officer at biotechnology company Moderna, says her role is being an architect of how work is done. She explains: "I am responsible for the entire HR function and the entire IT function . . . It's [about] how work flows through the organisation, and what should be done with technology – whether that's hardware or software or AI – and where you complement human skills around that." Meanwhile, software company Covisian merged its IT and HR teams in 2023 under the leadership of Fabio Sattolo, chief people and technology officer. He was previously CTO. "If we bring [IT and people] together, we can have a common vision for how technology can have an impact on people and how people can adapt and evolve to leverage the new technology," Sattolo says.
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Middle East
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of senior IT decision makers at large companies expect their HR and IT functions to merge within five years, according to a survey by Nexthink, a firm that makes workplace software. Tracey Franklin, the chief people and digital technology officer at biotechnology company Moderna, says her role is being an architect of how work is done. She explains: "I am responsible for the entire HR function and the entire IT function . . . It's [about] how work flows through the organisation, and what should be done with technology – whether that's hardware or software or AI – and where you complement human skills around that." Meanwhile, software company Covisian merged its IT and HR teams in 2023 under the leadership of Fabio Sattolo, chief people and technology officer. He was previously CTO. "If we bring [IT and people] together, we can have a common vision for how technology can have an impact on people and how people can adapt and evolve to leverage the new technology," Sattolo says.
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