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Welcome to this week's round-up of all things #tech...

Digital transformation poses as many threats as there are opportunities. For IT leaders, driving enterprise-wide transformation requires them to break free of the security point solution cycle and gain complete visibility into their endpoints.

In the coming years, workplaces are predicted to change drastically, with #generationz expected to comprise as much as?27% of the global workforce?by 2025. Naturally, this will have implications for businesses in almost every sector, as this new wave of employees brings with it a new set of priorities and perspectives on work.

Waterfront Toronto , the government agency overseeing the development, announced Thursday that it has agreed to evaluate Alphabet’s plans after major concessions from the tech company, including a much smaller plot of land for the development and less control over data. The agreement keeps Alphabet’s project alive.

Across the tech industry, at firms like Twitter , Meta, Coinbase and Snap Inc. , workers have announced they are "seeking new opportunities". Worldwide, more than 120,000 jobs have been lost, according to the Layoffs.fyi website, which tracks tech job cuts.

Twitter has told employees that the company's office buildings will be temporarily closed, effective immediately. In a message seen by the BBC , workers were told that the offices would reopen on Monday November 21.