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Why working from home can lead to better performance
Organisations need to have more trust in their employees.
Can you stay true to your brand while growing your culture?
3 ways business leaders can preserve organisational culture
How to be a more socially responsible small business
Small businesses may struggle to have a distinct cooperate social identity. But it doesn’t always have to be this way.
8 steps to creating a mentally healthy workplace environment
Top tips to create a mentally healthy workplace.
10 tasks you can outsource to boost your productivity
If outsourcing still sounds controversial for you, you’re way behind the global trends of the workforce market. Millions of companies decide to hire outsourcing specialists highly skilled in the necessary fields to help grow their businesses. There are lots of things that the freelance workforce may help you accomplish, we want to highlight what you […]
How to keep employees accountable without causing conflict
How can your employees be kept accountable?
Men’s Mental Health Week a good opportunity for workplaces to join in the conversation
Men in Australia are three times more likely than women to commit suicide[1], and in many cases, they have no history of ever being diagnosed with a mental illness. This suggests that many men still suffer with depression in silence and need to be encouraged to speak up. Men’s mental health week kicks off from […]
Small business hardest hit by rising minimum wage.
The Fair Work Commission today delivered its annual wage review – the highest percentage we’ve seen since 2011. This decision will have a significant impact on all businesses and industries and over 2.3 million employees who are paid at the National Minimum Wage or minimum Modern Award rates. From the first full pay period commencing on or after […]
Anxiety in the workplace is estimated to cost businesses up to 100,000 hours of lost time
Last week I received a call from a CEO overseas who had slipped into a very dark place. He had acknowledged that his levels of anxiety were “out of control”: sliding relationships at home; constantly thinking about work problems; poor sleep patterns; negative thinking about work colleagues; poor diet and a growing reliance on alcohol. […]
Remote employees: How to prepare for the Remote Revolution
The need for flexibility in the workspace is growing – sometimes even as far as to a workspace on the other side of the continent. Working remotely is becoming increasingly popular, both on the employer side and on the employee side. Even though it might not be the right choice for every organisation, many opportunities […]
It’s time to cultivate corporate wellbeing and GROW productivity
Work-life balance is a term that is often bandied around the office, yet there’s no doubt mobile technology is one of the leading factors fuelling Australia’s ‘always-on’ culture, which is eroding the boundaries between work and personal life. According to WellBeing GROW Managing Director Charles Hunter, “Burnout, that is driven by prolonged workplace pressure is […]
Sales training is not the cure for underperforming sales
If Sales Training werethe cure, we would not have businesses small and large frustrated with Sales & Business Development constantly being the least productive and leastaccountable area of the business. Sales Training addressesthe ‘symptoms’, not the ‘core’ age-old problem. The persistent-core problem is that Sales & Business Development is an incidental career. Why? There is no tertiarypath. […]
The modern workplace and how to adapt
Greg Scileppi, President of International Staffing Operations at Robert Half International, looks at how to deal with changes in the workforce and create a more flexible way of working. The traditional workplace is changing rapidly. We have reached a point where the combination of generations and demographics has resulted in often diverging expectations of work […]
Protecting your SME when an employee leaves
Small businesses and startups face as much risk in employment as larger enterprises but they are often less well-equipped to address these issues. When working in a small business, people tend to form strong personal relationships and employers plan to retain staff. Sometimes, however, businesses need to dismiss staff for a number of reasons. While […]
The war for talent is escalating: How to win candidates in a competitive employment market
While futurists talk about Artificial Intelligence and robots ruling the workforce, the HR industry has a challenge that is much closer to home. Digitising recruitment and retention processes is critical in today’s hot talent market in order to strike the delicate balance between maximising profit and retaining the best staff. This fact is amplified for […]
How to set up your business for single touch payroll compliance
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) reports that, as of 1 July 2018, companies with 20 or more people on staff will be required to comply with a new system of real-time wage reporting called Single Touch Payroll. If you have fewer than 20 employees, you have an extra year, or until 1 July 2019, to […]
Offering flexible work becomes challenging for SMEs as their workforce balloons: MYOB
Businesses are struggling to offer staff flexible work arrangements as they expand beyond four employees, according to cloud accounting provider, MYOB. Although employees have a legal right, under the Fair Work Act, to request flexible work arrangements, MYOB’s latest SME snapshot shows that just one in two businesses with under 20 staff (54%) afford their […]
One in two IT workers looking to jump ship
A lack of training and career development is fuelling employee dissatisfaction amongst Australia’s IT workers, with 49% actively looking for new work and a further 40% open to jumping ship for the right offer. These findings are from a survey of nearly 2000 tech workers undertaken by IT workforce solutions specialists Greythorn, which gathered data […]
Companies that offer to freeze their employees’ eggs risk opening ‘Pandora’s Box’, says lawyer
In the United States, it is becoming vogue for companies to pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, with the likes of Apple, Facebook and Google introducing the policy. It’s being sold as a means for women to further their careers, free of pressure to have children at a particular point in time. However, […]