Business leaders often warn that Australia and New Zealand are facing a skills crisis, which has far reaching consequences for company productivity and the wider economy. RMIT Online claims Australia needs 156,000 new technology workers by 2025 to avoid missing out on $10 billion worth of growth in the technology, media and communications industries alone.
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- Human Resources
The working landscape has changed irrevocably post-pandemic, but the last few years have brought about ongoing disruption in other ways too, whether it’s conflict, economic challenges or the environmental crisis. To adapt to emerging challenges, organisations have learnt to be ready for anything, and become truly agile.
With disruption, comes impact. While Australia may not be experiencing the Great Resignation in the same way the UK and US are, the labour market is the tightest we’ve seen since 2008 and with that comes a subsequent skills shortage and new hire challenges which brings about economic impacts for businesses. However, taking time to look at why people quit can reveal opportunities to combat resignation rates and improve employee engagement and retention.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Recently, a bill passed in Australia bans pay secrecy clauses, which allows employees to disclose their remuneration details. In other words, employees have the right to discuss their pay openly.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Under the National Employment Standards in Australia, employees are entitled to personal leave as a leave of absence, regardless of their employment contract. Employees are also entitled to Annual Leave - the two types of leave are for different reasons that are not always clear.
There are several types of employee leave and rules and legislation governing each kind of leave. Managing employee leave can be challenging.
Read more on leave types, reasons for taking leave, applying for leave and some answers to common questions.
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- Human Resources
The employee experience, or EX, is how your employees think about your business. It begins the moment they connect with your company, perhaps via a job ad or recruiter, and carries through until their very last day working for you.
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- Human Resources
In March 2020, when the coronavirus outbreak was declared a global pandemic, workers worldwide were suddenly expected to work remotely. Seemingly overnight, dining tables, kitchen benches, and spare rooms became pop-up offices. Ready or not, businesses had to accommodate their employees working from home or risk losing their business.
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- Human Resources
Not so long ago, most people worked 9-5, from Monday to Friday, commuting daily to their shared office space with a bunch of other people doing similar jobs. These days, we live in a 24/7 world, with access to the internet from most places on the planet. The digital age has given rise to the flexible workforce – people who work outside and around standard business hours in ways suitable and beneficial to both the employee and the business.
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- Human Resources
'Quitting the idea of going above and beyond,’ TikToker @zkchillin says he's quiet quitting his job, sparking debate.
The quiet quitting, silent quitting or slow it down movement may have started in China, where the now-censored hashtag #tangping, meaning "lie flat", was used to protest long hours.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Most employees decide within the first six months of starting their new job if they’ll stay with the company or not, making it crucial to use onboarding best practices with every new recruit.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Employee experience might sound nice and fuzzy, or even a marketing term for engaging employees, but that is not the case.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
