Essilor UK is reaching out to local schools to help prepare pupils for employment while screening their eyes and raising awareness of the importance of healthy vision. This month, Essilor UK began an educational campaign with neighboring schools to its Thornbury site near Bristol. Volunteers from the company screened students to raise awareness of the importance of regular eye care and at the same time helped the students learn how to design and build telescopes. Hundreds of children were screened along with...

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PwC US and Vlocity to provide clients industry-specific, omni-channel cloud-based solutions to deliver high quality customer experiences. On June 10, 2016 PwC US announced it had launched a joint business relationship and collaboration agreement with Vlocity, a leading industry cloud company, to help organizations create omni-channel customer experiences tailored for industry-specific needs. As customer expectations continue to grow, organizations are turning to cloud technologies to create specialized business apps that deliver seamless customer interactions across any channel, giving organizations faster time-to-value. Through this...

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Recent research has found that human error now accounts for nearly two-thirds of information security compromises – a further testament to the paramount importance of every employer instituting a robust security awareness training program for employees. A recent study by a well-known information security company captures one of the most common information security fallacies: that information security is a technology problem. Most businesses view mitigating information security risks as falling squarely in the purview of their information technology department. However,...

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