Zone’s Employee Experience (EX) Strategy team — Harriet Bucklow, Jacquie Leitch, and Joss Anderson — discuss what happiness at work means and how Zone applies an experience-led approach when creating the feel-good factor for its own employees. Happiness has a huge positive impact on people at work, and a wealth…

Zone’s Rianna Mitchell handpicks and shares the five best new stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… Zone is deeply saddened by the passing of Her Majesty the Queen. Our sincerest condolences are with the Royal Family during this time. We would like to pause, reflect, and show our heart-felt…

Zone’s Rianna Mitchell handpicks and shares the five best new stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… 1. Breast cancer device wins award A breast cancer self-check device created by innovation design engineering graduates has won the prestigious UK James Dyson Award 2022. The Dotplot is an at-home breast scanning tool and app designed to encourage…

Zone’s Rianna Mitchell handpicks and shares the five best new stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… 1. Faster internet for cruise ships Cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean joins forces with Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX to offer customers high-speed internet connectivity at sea. The company plans to equip its fleet of ships with SpaceX’s relatively…

Zone’s Rianna Mitchell handpicks and shares the five best new stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… 1. Vinyl records are going green Vinyl records are set to go green to remedy the backlog of year-long pressing delays following the pandemic. The global demand for vinyl albums is at its highest since the 1990s — but…

Zone’s Rianna Mitchell handpicks and shares the five best new stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… 1. Top-rated banks for service quality Starling and Monzo beat established high street banks in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by the Competition and Markets Authority. The challenger banks peaked at number one for the best service for personal…

Zone’s Ricky Wallace handpicks and shares the five best news stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… 1. Cyber-attack behind NHS 111 outage Advanced, the company that provides digital services for NHS 111, has confirmed that the software outage affecting the service was caused by a cyber-attack. The attack was spotted last Thursday and targeted the…

Zone’s Rianna Mitchell handpicks and shares the five best news stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… 1. Say goodbye to checkouts in stores Checkout-free stores surge and are set to reach over 16,000 by 2027 as retailers increase their mobile self-scanning investments, according to RBR’s research. …

Zone’s Rianna Mitchell handpicks and shares the five best news stories on digital trends, experiences and technologies… 1. Sainsbury’s invest in sustainable start-ups Sainsbury’s — the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain — has launched a new initiative to aid sustainable technology start-up firms. Over the next four years, the food retailer plans to invest a minimum of…