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Embrace Technology: Boost Your Skills and Productivity
Pushing Your Comfort Zone to Success
If you feel a World of technological advances streaking past you like a bullet train while you’re riding your bike, don’t worry. Staying on the cutting edge of technology is a skill, and you can learn it. This article shows you how to harness the digital beast to work smarter, better and faster.
1. The Power of Automation
Robot liberation isn’t just for factories, there’s a whole World of tools that can help to automate the dreaded and dull parts of your involvement in the economy. Zapier and IFTTT (If This Then That) are apps that let you automate workflows between your apps, for example, to save an email attachment in a different context (eg, to your Dropbox or Google Drive) without the hassle of digging out the relevant item.
The study by McKinsey found that more than 60 per cent of all occupations have at least 30 per cent of activities that can be automated: imagine how much time you’ll claw back!
