Our work environments profoundly shape our relationships with our employers, and the work that gets done between their walls. These four workplace trends help improve our productivity and cultivate a sense of belonging.

Exactly one year ago today Peakon was born. Back then, Dan was mainly working on his own, figuring out how we could bring together decades of organisational research with the latest data-analytics possibilities. A year later and we’re now a 12 strong team, with a product that’s already changing how businesses work!

What a small convenience store can teach us about the scale of our startup ambitions, and why building an open platform benefits everyone.

What will our future be like if, as an influential Oxford study has predicted, 47 percent of total US employment is at “high risk” of being lost to automation?

Yahoo paid Marissa Mayer $42m in 2014. Microsoft paid Satya Nadella $84m, almost 3000 times the US median pay of $27,000. But are they worth it?

Have we reached a new era in which economic growth is no longer linked to human labour? Will we soon see breakthroughs in IT, robotics and artificial intelligence that wipe out whole job sectors?

Are Amazon workers unhappy? We downloaded and analysed over 1 million public tweets to find out.

We look at why Valve – maker of the Steam online gaming platform – is consistently rated as the best workplace in their industry.

Need a raise? Don’t go in unprepared. Learn how to increase your chances with tips from former FBI hostage negotiators and academic researchers.

No matter how much you love your job, returning from a holiday can be a bit of a nightmare. Dare try some unconventional tactics to avoid a barrage of emails? Or rely on tried and tested methods.

Mutual trust between employees and employer is essential in any great company – from the New Lanark cotton-spinning mill at the beginning of the 19th Century, to the businesses of today.

Effectively communicating your organisation’s raison d’être is becoming more important every day. Well written vision and mission statements can be two of your most useful assets to do so.