UAE offices finally get to be ‘flexi’
New licensing schemes and corporate demand helps demand for flexible offices
Don’t be stingy with cost of living increases
Companies must factor these into annual compensations for a better engaged workforce
A $20b UAE-Egypt alliance has lessons for Arab world
It shows how bilateral opportunities can be created unlike the past failed experiments
Enterprises finally ready for open source
With big data and cloud computing setting agendas, there is now a wider acceptance
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