The technology binge is pushing ahead the communities, businesses and all aspects related to work and workplaces in such a fast manner that we haven't noticed since the very booming of the office market. And as technology is created by people for people, the discussion around the workplaces is naturally and closely linked to people.

In the future of office space, people will be charmed through countless amenities to nurture more and more the need to connect to each other. As George Didoiu, Director Tenant Services at Colliers International told Outsourcing Today, in that kind of office, someone should feel instantly able to interact with another.

The necessity of creating a functional dialogue within a company has been underlined by Denisa Panaite Casu, PwC Academy Manager, Romania, in the panel of the recently held People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum.

To what extent will robotics, chat bots and other cognitive technologies change the makeup of our future workforce? With customizable software and cloud-based tools which promote automation, the low skill sectors of the BPO are at high risk.

The Romanian employees are well-seen and appreciated by foreign investors, top managers of large corporations and, as Vivek Bakshi General Manager International Operations (Europe), Wipro Technologies considers that the quality of people is good in Romania. The market offers enough possibilities for both personal development and business growth, not even in Bucharest, but also in the developing counties, in Tier 2 and 3 cities.

The plenary session of the recently held People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum brought together the industry stakeholders and the authorities in an open dialogue panel, with the aim at identifying the steps to be done towards a more efficient cooperation.

We have just concluded the fourth edition of our annual event People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum, the get-together of the Who's Who in the industry of business shared services in Romania.

This Thursday, at People in Shared Services & Outsourcing Forum 2018, Olga Botusan EMEA HR Director at Stefanini joins us to talk about Digital Transformation and Next-Generation Talent Development.

The moderator of the 4th edition of the annual event dedicated to the human resources in shared services & outsourcing industry, COLIN C. LOVERING ISM, Chairman of BRCC and Senior VP, Avison Young Real Estate is one of the industry's most passionate specialists.

Andrei Mihai Crăciun the Head of office for Innovation, Technological Transfer and Intellectual Property Office from West University of Timisoara will be joining us to discuss whether the private-state actors talk and act together.

On October 18th, Sergiu Negut joins People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum to share with us his ideas of ways to support the industry's human capital necessities and create a more efficient cooperation between the authorities and the business environment.

Join us to get access to the latest strategies to develop talent within your organization and to achieve employee engagement.

Outsourcing Today, the integrated communication platform of for the business services sector, together with The Diplomat-Bucharest, kick off the autumn series of events on October 18, at Caro Hotel Bucharest, with the fourth edition of People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum.

How to stay relevant in the economy: Fast adjusting to continuous change. The future characteristics of the workforce in the context of digital transformation, automation and data revolution are deeply impacting how companies now operate. Still, for industry companies, it is employees who are most important, because more than three quarters of the players on the market are planning to increase employment on the short term.

The co-working spaces are already present and gaining grounds. The classical close-doors offices will be rare and a strong trend is to include features now present in the hospitality area in the company offices.

Within the recent roundtable of OT Learning and Development annual series of events, Daniel Adumitrachioaiei, HRD, CapGemini stated that the city of Iasi doesn't yet offer enough office spaces at this time. "The collaborative office space and work process should prevail over the classical patterns," in the context of Tier 2 and 3 cities that started to emerge as well as technology hubs.

Within the recently ended OT Learning & Development roundtable edition, Andrei Romanescu CEO, VEEAM stated that he trends of the current and following years underline the importance of people skills and leadership forming. "We need to calibrate our expectations regarding our skills to this context, to prepare ourselves now for the future."

How to succeed in reaching the young and the valuable employees and wining their hearts and minds, so they will forever be committed to gain knowledge, evolve in profession and build a strong career inside the companies? How to capitalize on their curiosity, how to nurture and cultivate it so they show a real hunger for reaching new knowledge and skills, so useful for companies' development and business growth?

Some trends are here to stay, while some other may not. How about gamification, chatbots, microlearning, data analytics, mobile learning, augmented reality and others? Today's edition of OT Learning & Development roundtable focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing, designing and testing elements of advanced corporate learning.

The Second Edition of OT Learning & Development roundtable will be held on June 7, 2018 at InterContinental Hotel Bucharest. The event brings together the business services professionals to discuss and discover new tools and programs designed to assist businesses in supporting employee development.

Last night, Outsourcing Today and the Diplomat-Bucharest awarded the performance and excellence in business at the 4th edition of Romanian Outsourcing and Shared Services Awards ceremony, organized at Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest.

On March 22nd, at Athénée Palace Hilton in Bucharest, the Fourth Edition of Romanian Outsourcing & Shared Services Summit hosted the annual get-together of professionals in outsourcing and business shared services industry s, ready to share knowledge and build new alliances and dialogue, in order to transform and evolve the businesses, organizations and the whole industry's designs.

Outsourcing Today presents the fourth edition of the annual Romanian Outsourcing & Shared Services Awards, the event that recognizes, rewards and celebrates the success of the most prominent companies acting in the Outsourcing - BPO, ITO and SSC industry in Romania, on May 10 in Bucharest at Radisson Blu Hotel.

Adapting to future workforce trends whilst balancing intelligent automation, digitalization, and millennial teams was one of the most discussed topic of the second session of the Fourth Edition of Romanian Outsourcing & Shared Services Summit, a flagship event dedicated to the ever transforming business ecosystem.

The second session of the recently ended Romanian Outsourcing & Shared Services Summit highlighted topics on the future workforce trends such as digital transformation, automation, the repositioning of the importance of human capital. Some questions should be addressed in the new context of industry expectations and alignment to the new customer centricity, as stated by Iulia Nare, M&A HR Lead, Genpact Europe.

This March, the professionals, leaders and key voices in the outsourcing and business shared services industries joined for three rounds of lively knowledge exchange within the Fourth Edition of Romanian Outsourcing & Shared Services Summit, a flagship event dedicated to the ever transforming business ecosystem of outsourcing.

The nominating session for the fourth edition of annual event of Romanian Outsourcing and Shared Services Gala is open by April 15.

The Diplomat – Bucharest organizes the second edition of Digital Finance Conference to be held on 28 of March in Bucharest, at InterContinental Hotel, Fortuna Hall starting 8:30 AM.

OUTSOURCING TODAY, the integrated communication platform of the business services sector, presents the Fourth Edition of Romanian Outsourcing & Shared Services Summit on March 22nd at Hilton Hotel, Bucharest. The event provides opportunity for the industry's professionals to learn, network and build new alliances & partnerships that will transform their business.

Outsourcing Today organizes the 4th edition of the Awards Gala on May 10 at Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest. The event that rewards and celebrates the success of the most prominent companies acting in the Outsourcing - BPO, ITO and SSC industry is a must attend in the Romanian Outsourcing events calendar.

This month, OUTSOURCING TODAY organized The Workplace of the future in IT and Outsourcing at Caro Hotel Bucharest, a new concept event meant to connect fast-growing corporate tenants from IT and outsourcing industries with forward-thinking offices landlords and developers. Find below the top hot aspects discussed by the key managers in the industry.

The Association of Business Service Leaders in Romania (ABSL Romania), the organization that represents the local Business Services sector, will organize, in Bucharest, the industry's most important event of the year. The 5th annual ABSL conference will take place on November 14, at Radisson Blu Hotel.

Outsourcing Today organizes the third edition of People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum, on October 19, 2017 in Bucharest at Caro Hotel.

Romania delivers services in 25 languages with more than 100,000 specialists employed in the outsourcing industry and business services, and based on an estimated growth of 15-20 per cent, it is estimated to reach four to five per cent of the country's GDP by 2020. In short, this means that all community activists, educators, employers, parents, and graduates should already be prepared for this dynamic industry, one which is fully

On June 15th, Outsourcing Today organizes OT Learning & Development roundtable. The event brings together the business services professionals to discuss and discover new tools and programs designed to assist businesses in growing the talent pipeline and developing current employees.

Outsourcing Today, the integrated communication platform of the business services sector and The Diplomat – Bucharest is honored to praise its winners awarded at The Third Edition of Romanian Outsourcing Awards for Excellence, on May 11, 2017 at Marriott Hotel Bucharest, Constanta Hall.

Outsourcing Today, the integrated communication platform of the business services sector, presents the Third Edition of the annual Romanian Outsourcing Awards for Excellence. The elite event that recognizes, rewards and celebrates the success of the most prominent companies acting in the Outsourcing - BPO, ITO and SSC industry in Romania, will be held on May

This year's edition of Romanian Outsourcing Summit joined representatives of the government and top representatives of leading companies operating in the sector of business shared services and related industries and depicted the main trend and challenges of this industry in Romania that still walks the challenging road towards its maturity.

OUTSOURCING TODAY, the integrated communication platform of the business services sector, powered by The Diplomat Bucharest, presents the Third Edition of the ROMANIAN OUTSOURCING SUMMIT on March 23rd 2017, at Sheraton Hotel in Bucharest.

The annual event dedicated exclusively to human resources in the Shared Services & Outsourcing Industry powered by Outsourcing Today and The Diplomat – Bucharest was organized at the Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest on October 27 and invited business services investors such as SSC, ITO, BPO, academic figures and authorities to discuss and discover new tools, strategies and solutions for developing, implementing & optimizing t

Two teams of specialists from the DB Global Technology center in Bucharest are among the winners of the international hackaton organized by Deutsche Bank and autism research charity Autistica on November 9th and 10th . Autistica is one of Deutsche Bank's UK Charities of the Year. The event aimed to develop prototype apps to help young people with autism.

"The world is changing fast. Especially within the work environment, soon, we will face the need to address several generations working in the same time, in the same place," being one of the first ideas that opened the plenary session of the third edition of People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum, 2016 edition.

Outsourcing Today, the integrated communication platform for the business services sector, together with The Diplomat-Bucharest organize on October 27, at InterContinental Hotel, the second edition of People in Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum.

Early stage Romanian IT &C companies are summoned to join Microsoft Accelerator Bootcamp, one of the biggest events for start-ups and entrepreneurs organized by Microsoft and now hosted for the first time in Central and Eastern Europe, at TechHUB Bucharest.

Outsourcing Today, the integrated communication platform of the business services sector, powered by The Diplomat-Bucharest, organized the second edition of Romanian Outsourcing Awards for Excellence, the elite event that recognizes, rewards and celebrates the success of the most prominent companies acting in the Outsourcing-BPO, ITO and SSC industry in Romania.

Outsourcing Today, the integrated communication platform of the business services sector, powered by The Diplomat-Bucharest, presents the second edition of Romanian Outsourcing Awards for Excellence, the elite event that recognizes, rewards and celebrates the success of the most prominent companies acting in the Outsourcing - BPO, ITO and SSC industry in Romania

ABSL's newest Business Mixer in Cluj will take place on June 2, further details below.

About 40 industry leaders were attending the launching ceremony of the Outsourcing Today print issue on Thursday, April 21.

More than 150 industry leaders have witnessed an interesting and lively debate started by the Minister of Education, Adrian Curaj, about creating new privately-supported programs in the public schools for a more pragmatic approach to youth careers, at the Romanian Outsourcing Summit 2016. "Let's walk the talk and have concrete examples in the public-private partnerships in this field," says Curaj.

Outsourcing Today, the integrated communication platform for the business services sector together with The Diplomat Bucharest organizes on March 30, at Hilton Hotel Bucharest, Le Diplomate Hall, the second edition of ROMANIAN OUTSOURCING SUMMIT 2016. More on this here: http://outsourcing2016.thediplomat.ro/

Iași Business Mixer's theme "Iași: The Northern Star Of Business Services", will bring together leading decision makers in the industry for an integrated debate about the development of the business services industry in the region in order to further develop Romania as one of the most attractive d

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the First Conference organized by ACCA in Bucharest in the field of Education. As the leading global accountancy body, ACCA aims to bring together the academic environment, high level representatives of professional associations and international employers in order to identify partnering pathways which will further the development of a robust profession

Timisoara is very close to Western Europe and has an important, unsaturated talent pool, say leaders of the Association of Business Services Leaders (ABSL).

While launching Outsourcing-Today.ro, The Diplomat-Bucharest was host for its first annual event dedicated exclusively to the HR managers in shared services and outsourcing industry. The event took place on October, 28 at InterContinental Hotel in Bucharest.

Romania may become the shining star of the regional business services sector, concluded the speakers of the third ABSL Conference in Bucharest at the beginning of October.

The Association of Business Service Leaders in Romania (ABSL) is pleased to announce Timișoara Business Mixer, an event that will offer you the possibility to interact with representatives of the industry, while at the same time exploring the opportunity to develop across the country

Outsourcing's Renaissance is a fresh concept emerging on the local market, referring to a shift of paradigms in patterns of doing business. In past years, together with the ceaseless newly-launching technologies in the IT&C sector, outsourcing closely followed this development trend and it is no wonder that Romania is now one of Europe's most-sought destinations for business services investors, such as BPO, ITO or SSC segments,

In the context of a growing industry that set Romania among top outsourcing destinations worldwide, The Diplomat - Bucharest organised 'Romanian Outsourcing Summit 2015' to stress what is left for the local business services market to capitalise on further. By Alexandra Lopotaru and Magda Purice

Real estate consultancy company CBRE announced it completed rental transactions for approximately 22,000 sqm of coworking workspaces for the Regus and Spaces brands since 2015.

CrowdStrike Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced the official opening of its new Center of Innovation in the Pipera Technology District, Bucharest, Romania.

Romania is leader in the top of jurisdictions recording the highest number of cybersecurity incidents with 14 attacks, followed by the Czech republic (11) and Hungary (8), according to the study "The Cybersecur

In August 2018, Oracle applied a questionnaire with a number of questions about transformation technologies to a total of 4,000 respondents in 21 markets. Respondents were top managers in the following markets:

UK-headquartered Colt Technology Services said that it is expanding its IQ fibre network in Bucharest, Zagreb, Belgrade and Sofia as part of its plan for expansion in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

SAP Romania, the local subsidiary of the world's largest business software maker, has launched the SAP Ariba Snap program for the domestic market to support the digitization of specific procurement activities.

According to the latest analysis of KeysFin, 17,000 companies operating in the Romanian software industry generate EUR 5.4 billion in turnover and employ 106,000 people generates 5.4 billion Euro in 2018 in Rom

Atos, global leader in digital transformation, officially launches the start of the construction of its new global Research & Development Lab dedicated to research in quantum computing.

Specialized in business software development, Romanian company Softelligence announced it plans to increase its team by 50 per cent in the next two years, by hiring 100 to 150 new colleagues, the company announ

A new series of corporate bonds issued by Romanian IT group Bittnet Systems was admitted to trading on the main market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).

As an example offered by Olga Botusan at Stefanini, the company implemented a satisfaction survey in previous years, and they constantly use the results and the feedback of colleagues to come up with better sol

IoT and advanced technologies, including robotics, are expected to replace all the conventional tools and systems at workplaces with their digitized versions by 2022 in all the top-ten economies of the world.

Technology has made it easier and faster than ever to prepare, anticipate, implement, and get the job done for everyone, from the simple technology home user to all levels and departments of a corporation. Howe