Rewiring the workplace: How Energi Mine promises to change employee behaviour to save company cash

Madeleine Cuff
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The start-up believes a blockchain-based reward system could be the answer to workplace energy saving - and National Rail is its first guinea pig

'What's in it for us?' Employees may not be bold enough to say it out loud at a company meeting on the latest cost-saving initiative, but you can bet that's what is being whispered across the office as...

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