Are your staff and leadership team on the same page when considering what’s next for home working? As a HR professional, chances are you’re aware of a variety of differing viewpoints within your business. So how can you balance the requirements of the business with employees’ personal preferences?
Different companies are approaching this question differently. Some are happy for their staff to work from home. For instance, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter are now giving their staff the option to work from home permanently. Others, particularly within the finance sector, believe that the long-term role of remote work is overstated and that the office should still be seen as an important hub. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently described remote working as “an aberration that we are going to correct as quickly as possible.”
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Reactively seeking to close skills gaps in your organisation is no longer enough. It’s time to prioritise talent management through strategic skills training and internal mobility programmes that support employee career progression. Those that don’t risk being left behind while more future-focused organisations make upskilling and re-skilling programmes a top priority.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
It’s fair to say that the HR landscape has radically changed since the COVID-19 outbreak. One of the biggest shifts has been the transition of millions of Australian workers to remote working.
There’s much debate over whether remote working is a positive shift that should be continued after lockdown orders are lifted, and many questions have been raised.
What might be lost or gained by taking people out of the office permanently? Should business go back to how it operated before the pandemic? Or should home working en masse continue? Is there a workable hybrid solution or is this an impossible dream?
There’s a lot to consider, but one thing is for certain. Many employees who’ve had a taste of remote working will want it to continue, and this must be taken into account for your recruitment and retention strategies.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Is it easy for you to conduct workforce analytics or produce informative HR reports for your senior management? For too long, many HR professionals have found it difficult access accurate data about their workforce. But that no longer needs to be the case. Modern, cloud-based HR solutions are not only easy and cost-effective to set up – they open up a whole new world of data management and insight.
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- Human Resources
The current climate has been a catalyst for many organisations having to quickly react to facilitate a remote workforce. And whilst countless workers are already well versed in occasionally working from home, the recent government response to the COVID-19 outbreak has meant thousands of employees will now need to work remotely for the foreseeable future.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
When the lockdown was first imposed, those of us not used to homeworking full-time wondered how we’d ever adjust to such an unusual set of circumstances.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to an unprecedented rise in home working across the world. While the measures are essential, some aspects of remote working can have a negative impact on our mental and physical wellbeing.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Remote working is not a new idea. As the sophistication of technology and digital communication tools has continued to increase in recent years, so too has the adoption of this flexible working style across the globe.
Though in light of the unprecedented times we now find ourselves in, even businesses who are already au fait with facilitating remote working from time-to-time are facing significant challenges as the wider workforce is compelled to settle into this practice for the longer term.
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- Human Resources
Coronavirus has got every business urgently assessing what it could do to help employees work from home if needed. In fact, even before the current crisis, many companies were realising that homeworking can be just as effective as office-based working for both the business and their employees. And HR leaders can do plenty to help facilitate a smooth transition now as well as providing support for home workers in the longer term.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
The Australian Government announced with the 2018-2019 budget changes that it was extending the concessional tax treatment of genuine redundancy early retirement scheme payments to align with the current age pension qualifying age.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
