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What is the Role of AI in Employee Monitoring?

Remember when “checking in” meant stopping by someone’s desk, not logging into surveillance software? Well, that world vanished overnight in 2020. Now, three years after offices emptied, companies face a workforce management crisis they never asked for — how to oversee employees without turning into Big Brother. The numbers show that before COVID hit, about 30% of large employers used monitoring tools. Today, that figure has doubled to 60%.

Data sovereignty: residency is the starting point, not the destination

‍ Most organizations asking about data sovereignty are actually asking about data residency. Where are the servers? Is there a data center in Germany, France, or the Netherlands? The vendor says yes. The procurement box gets ticked. The conversation moves on. This is understandable. Geography is concrete and auditable. And residency does matter. What it does not do is answer every question sovereignty requires. That gap is where the real sovereignty conversation begins.

Incident Response Plan Template & Framework for Security Teams

No organization is immune to cybersecurity incidents. Whether it's ransomware, phishing, or unauthorized access, the speed and effectiveness of your response often determine how much damage an attack can cause. That’s why every company needs a well-defined incident response plan that gives security teams a structured process for detecting, containing, and recovering from security threats.

Building to learn: rethinking the product playbook

At Canvas 26 in San Francisco. Ravi Mehta — product strategy advisor, longtime product leader, and teacher of Reforge’s AI strategy and AI prototyping courses — laid out a bold vision for product teams: unlearn the MVP, trade the assembly line for a jazz band, and expect the playbook to reset every six months.

Revenue Up 2x, EBITDA Up 5x: The Operating Model Behind It with Andrew McBarnett

Everyone wants AI to fix their messy data. Andrew McBarnett will tell you straight: it won't. In fact, it'll just help you reach the wrong conclusion faster. Andrew is Group Financial Director at Lucid Group, a PE-backed medical communications agency. He joined in 2020 for what was meant to be a four month contract. Six years later, he's still there, and the numbers tell the story: EBITDA up from £3.6m to £18.1m, revenue more than doubled, legal entities cut from 25 to 15, and a finance team that's shrunk in headcount while transaction volume has nearly doubled.

The benefits of capacity planning: protect your margin, your deadlines, and your team

Most teams treat capacity planning as an operations chore, something the resourcing spreadsheet handles on a Monday. That framing is why so much client work loses money without anyone seeing where. Capacity planning is the lever that decides whether the work you win is actually profitable to deliver, and this guide walks through the benefits one by one so you can build the case for it and act on it.