Category: Employee wellbeing
By baking experimentation into work, redefining accomplishments and changing the way we plan for the day, we can have a positive impact on employees’ motivation levels.
High-performing teams need clarity, pace and progress cues in order to reach their full potential. Here’s how HR can help them get there.
When someone is faced with a cancer diagnosis, it turns their world upside down, so having a supportive employer is invaluable. Here are some tips and resources to help HR offer the right kind of care.
Do your people seem exhausted, stressed and more than a little cynical about their work? Sounds like burnout. Keep an eye out for these three different types.
In order to help employees more productive, HR needs to think about how to remove unhelpful friction points for employees
As of 1 February, businesses will now be legally required to grant 10 days’ paid leave for employees who experience family and domestic violence.
Have you ever worked with someone who sucked the life out of the room as soon as they entered it? Then you might benefit from these tips for dealing with energy drainers.
A promotion to management might get you a new title and more money, but it doesn’t protect you from bullying – even by your subordinates. So why is ‘upward bullying’ acknowledged so little? And what can HR do about it?
Micromanagement might not sound all that serious on face value, but this Fair Work and contract case – which has been labelled one of the biggest payouts for a general protections claim – shows it can have alarming consequences.
As the world reopens and people start planning holidays, employers might be faced with resourcing issues. In this instance, are they allowed to deny an annual leave request?
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HOW TO
A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
Keep these tips in mind to ensure your organisation’s probation periods go beyond being a tick-box exercise and become a driver of strong culture and high performance.
From building your case in advance to avoiding the trap of false politeness, use these strategies to help you engage in constructive dissent at the executive level.
LEGAL
Victoria has become the first Australian state to legislate the right to work from home. Here’s how the new legislation will work, and what it could mean for Australia’s broader industrial relations landscape.
As the financial year draws to a close, use these prompts to ensure both you and your organisation are prepared for EOFY requirements across tax, payroll and reporting.
The definition of a lawful and reasonable direction is at the heart of many employment disputes. From return-to-office mandates to drug and alcohol testing, here are four areas where workplace directions can come under scrutiny, and how to ensure your approach holds up.
An employee was recently awarded over $36,000 by the Fair Work Commission due to flaws in her employer’s workplace investigation process. What can HR learn from this decision?
