The DBS SME Pulse Check Survey, conducted ahead of the coming 2023/24 Hong Kong Budget announcement, found that 58% of Hong Kong’s SMEs would like to receive more funding and financial support from the government, amid growing concerns about the state of the global economy.According to the...
Eighty-four percent of existing users of cloud services are expecting to increase their investment in the cloud technology in 2023, while more than four in five (84%) are planning a full cloud migration in two years. This comes from a survey report entitled "The...
With the gradual recovery of the food services industry, nine in ten (91%) employees say that there is a manpower shortage and cite low wages (58%), long working hours (48%) and dealing with unreasonable customers (42%) as the top challenges they face at work.
A Sophos sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Education 2023” found that education reported the highest rate of ransomware attacks in 2022. Over the past year, 79% of higher educational organizations surveyed reported being hit by ransomware, while 80% of lower educational organizations surveyed were...
An International Data Corporation (IDC) report titled "How Do Experiential Value Streams Contribute to Customer Success? " highlights that amidst looming recession fears shared by nearly half of Asia/Pacific including Japan (APJ) organizations, customer experience (CX) stands as a top priority, largely immune to budget cuts and essential...
A survey conducted by Robert Walters Hong Kong, the global specialist professional recruitment consultancy, has found that over half of Hong Kong professionals are considering or planning to move out of the city. Of those surveyed, 15.6% expressed a desire to move as soon...
The Cisco 2023 Consumer Privacy Survey highlights how younger consumers are taking deliberate action to protect their privacy, as 42% of consumers aged 18-24 exercise their Data Subject Access Rights, compared with just 6% for consumers 75 and older. Many say they have lost...
Recent data from the IDC Worldwide ICT Spending Guide: Enterprise and SMB by Industry reveals that the total ICT Spending in the region has surged past the $1.3 trillion mark in 2023 and is expected to grow at a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.6% by the end...