{"id":539882,"date":"2021-11-22T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=539882"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:25:47","slug":"business-talk-dimension-datas-lauren-wortmann-on-the-modern-workplace-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/539882\/business-talk-dimension-datas-lauren-wortmann-on-the-modern-workplace-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Dimension Data&#8217;s Lauren Wortmann on the modern workplace in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Wortmann is the head of applications in Southern Africa for Dimension Data.<\/p>\n<p>Wortmann has worked at the information technology services company for more than a decade, having joined as a marketing manager in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>She is a highly experienced digital professional having worked as a GM for digital advisory and a solutions executive.<\/p>\n<p>Wortmann is passionate about how digital transformation can help businesses unlock value. In this Business Talk episode, she runs through recent research conducted by the company&#8217;s parent, Japanese tech firm NTT, showing the <span class=\"kqEaA z8gr9e\">discord<\/span> between business leaders and employees on the future of work.<\/p>\n<p>She identifies the weak points in the current workplace dynamic that are affecting delivery and customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Wortman provides insight into the state of employee wellbeing in South Africa and the impact of a hybrid approach on work-life balance and provides some idea of what the future of the modern workplace looks like and how it will impact local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Lauren Wortmann is embedded below. Find all the Business Talk \u2013 Owning it with Sage interviews<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AKiCVp5uuA0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Wortmann discusses the weak points in the current workplace dynamic that are impacting delivery and customer service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":539890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15578,94,16448],"class_list":["post-539882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-opinion","tag-business-talk","tag-dimension-data","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539882"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539908,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539882\/revisions\/539908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}