Maintaining a high ethical standard is essential for all organizations, regardless of industry or size—and it’s an imperative that touches all employees and contingent workers. This TechRepublic Premium pack provides readers with five downloads for a bargain price. The bundle comprises five policies about vendor relationships, IT consultant conduct, conflict of interest disclosure, nondisclosure and ...

Video games are a significant cultural component within many organizations, especially those populated or run by millennials. In this era of interconnected collaboration and strategic thinking exercises, video games can benefit companies by giving employees a recreational outlet to build cooperation and morale, not to mention engage in a bit of relaxation on the job. ...

More and more of us prefer to work from home. This means that you might have to make some changes or add some additional hardware, to not just complete your tasks, but to do them in a way that is acceptable, professional and productive. The same holds with your filming needs. This guide from TechRepublic ...

Work from home policies and fully remote jobs top the priority list of many workers. Working from home also offers fewer distractions and interruptions from colleagues, reduces the stress of commuting and provides a better work-life balance, not to mention, less office politics. How does an IT professional search for a remote position and prepare ...

The end of a year provides an ideal opportunity for revisiting the previous year’s goals and performance, reviewing personal and professional aspirations and prioritizing the upcoming year’s initiatives. But where to start? Tech pros can implement these seven planning steps from TechRepublic Premium to successfully set and track goals and subsequently prioritize initiatives. From the ...

Every organization relies on data that must be protected and backed up in a reliable and secure way by authorized personnel. While the content or criticality of the data may vary, the processes behind a successful backup strategy are universal. This checklist from TechRepublic Premium will help you establish a standard framework for backing up ...

Moonlighting, the practice of working for another organization in a separate job in addition to one’s current employment, is a fairly common practice these days. It’s especially frequent in technology, where people with varying skills and backgrounds may find their abilities in demand by multiple companies and in need of multiple streams of income to ...

Moving well-beyond its cryptocurrency roots, blockchain technology has quickly become a sought-after component of application development in the modern business enterprise. Recruiting candidates with advanced software engineering experience and at least some familiarity with applied blockchain technology will take time and effort. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium provides a workable framework you can use ...

While the perfect color palette or the most sublime button shading or myriad of other design features play an important role in any product’s success, user interface design is not enough. Customer engagement and retention requires a strategic plan that attempts to measure, quantify and ultimately create a complete satisfying user experience on both an ...

Businesses of all sizes are spending a good bit of time and energy digitizing their operations. While a business’s digital transformation may make systems more efficient and workers more productive, digital enterprises still require extensive documentation and the technical writers who create it. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business ...

Recruiting a video game animator with the right combination of experience and technical expertise will require a comprehensive screening process. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find the right person for the job. From the hiring kit: DETERMINING FACTORS, DESIRABLE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND SKILLSETS Beyond sheer ...

Some operations and tasks don’t require painstaking attention to detail. Unfortunately, processing payroll isn’t one of them. With sensitive salary and wage information, bank and direct deposit accounts, Social Security numbers and other personal information in play, the stakes are high. This guide — and the accompanying spreadsheet — from TechRepublic Premium will help you ...

Quality assurance refers to the processes being used to manage the project and to build the deliverables. This is in contrast to quality control, which refers to the activities used to create the deliverables. Because you are not responsible for the creation of the deliverables (quality control), you need to be comfortable that the outsourcer ...

Even for the smallest and most independent developers, creating a successful modern video game requires the coordination of designers, programmers, testers, artists, musicians, animators and a multitude of other talented personnel. Getting all these moving parts to work together, synchronize their production and do it on time and on budget is the role of the ...

While modern video games rely on a full array of multimedia to keep players engrossed and engaged, there is little doubt that the visual medium is the driving force for most games. It is the visuals of art, effects, colors, etc., that keep players glued to their displays. This undeniable fact is why the video ...