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In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Sabra Sciolaro, Chief People Officer at FirstUp, to unpack the growing problem of tech fatigue in modern workplaces.

Technology is meant to make work easier — but for many employees, it’s doing the opposite. In this conversation, Sciolaro explains how constant platform changes, tool sprawl, and fragmented communication channels are creating attention fatigue, slowing execution, and draining momentum across organizations.

Key takeaways include:
🔵 Why tech fatigue isn’t just about “too many tools,” but about constant change, poor orchestration, and lack of clarity
🔵 How attention fatigue leads directly to disengagement, slower decisions, and stalled innovation
🔵 What “intentional tech deployment” looks like in practice — fewer channels, smarter personalization, and AI-driven orchestration
🔵 How leaders should measure success beyond usage metrics, focusing on clarity, alignment, action, and outcomes

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In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Sabra Sciolaro, Chief People Officer at FirstUp, to unpack the growing problem of tech fatigue in modern workplaces.

Technology is meant to make work easier — but for many employees, it’s doing the opposite. In this conversation, Sciolaro explains how constant platform changes, tool sprawl, and fragmented communication channels are creating attention fatigue, slowing execution, and draining momentum across organizations.

Key takeaways include:
🔵 Why tech fatigue isn’t just about “too many tools,” but about constant change, poor orchestration, and lack of clarity
🔵 How attention fatigue leads directly to disengagement, slower decisions, and stalled innovation
🔵 What “intentional tech deployment” looks like in practice — fewer channels, smarter personalization, and AI-driven orchestration
🔵 How leaders should measure success beyond usage metrics, focusing on clarity, alignment, action, and outcomes

Subscribe to the UC Today channel for more interviews with security experts shaping the future of UC and collaboration technology.

In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Sabra Sciolaro, Chief People Officer at FirstUp, to unpack the growing problem of tech fatigue in modern workplaces.

Technology is meant to make work easier — but for many employees, it’s doing the opposite. In this conversation, Sciolaro explains how constant platform changes, tool sprawl, and fragmented communication channels are creating attention fatigue, slowing execution, and draining momentum across organizations.

Key takeaways include:
🔵 Why tech fatigue isn’t just about “too many tools,” but about constant change, poor orchestration, and lack of clarity.
🔵 How attention fatigue leads directly to disengagement, slower decisions, and stalled innovation.
🔵 What “intentional tech deployment” looks like in practice — fewer channels, smarter personalization, and AI-driven orchestration.
🔵 How leaders should measure success beyond usage metrics, focusing on clarity, alignment, action, and outcomes.

Subscribe to the UC Today channel for more interviews with security experts shaping the future of UC and collaboration technology.

After recent job cuts, many are asking if the metaverse dream is over. In this UC Today interview, Christopher Carey sits down with technology evangelist Kevin O'Donovan to unpack the rise, fall, and future of the Metaverse.

Discover:
🔵 How digital twins and physics-based simulations are quietly transforming industries like manufacturing, energy, and autonomous vehicles.

🔵 Why early VR hype and virtual office experiments failed to gain widespread adoption, and what that teaches about realistic expectations.

🔵 The lessons from hardware limitations, fragmented standards, and over-optimism that shaped the Metaverse’s current trajectory.

🔵 How emerging technologies—generative AI, AI-powered glasses, and augmented reality—are redefining how organizations interact with digital environments.

Join the conversation: share your thoughts on the metaverse’s evolution in the comments.

In this January 2026 edition of the UC Big News Show, Kieran Devlin (Host, UC Today) sits down with a sharp panel: Blair Pleasant, Craig Durr (The Collab Collective), Jon Arnold (J. Arnold & Associates) and Dom Black (Cavell). Together, they unpack where Unified Communications, collaboration, and workplace AI are really headed—cutting through hype to ask the questions IT buyers and business leaders actually care about: Where’s the value, who’s getting it, and what needs to change for 2026 to be the year pilots turn into outcomes?

AI is everywhere—but the results aren’t. The panel reacts to sobering CEO sentiment on AI value, digs into why trust, training, and culture keep getting overlooked, and debates whether Zoom’s AI Companion benchmark moment signals a real shift toward orchestration and multi-model strategies. Then the conversation turns to a hot industry reality: with budgets tight and vendors building their own roadshows, are independent events like Enterprise Connect evolving—or sliding toward irrelevance?

In this episode, we cover:

Why the “AI value gap” is widening—and why revenue growth deserves as much attention as cost cutting
The overlooked blockers: responsible AI processes, transparency, user adoption, and prompting skills
What Zoom’s federated, multimodal approach suggests about the future: orchestration, connectors, and “best model for the job”
The 2026 events debate: why ISE is booming, why software shows must reinvent themselves, and why vertical-specific events may win

Next steps:
Audit where AI is actually used in your org (including shadow AI) and map it to measurable outcomes
Publish and socialize a responsible AI policy employees can understand and trust
If you’re attending ISE / IT Expo / CCW Berlin / Enterprise Connect, drop a comment with where you’ll be—UC Today’s team would love to connect