Pay is good. Payroll, on the other hand, is ignored – until there’s a mistake. So just how well are Australian employers tracking in terms of meeting obligations to their employees, such as paying them accurately and on time? Employee time tracking and scheduling app TSheets examined annual enforcement data published by the Fair Work […]

When it comes to the pay gap is having too many women in management and leadership positions just as bad as having too few?

This year’s Closing the Gap report came and went without much fanfare, which is typical. It’s the annual survey conducted to see whether life is getting any better for Indigenous Australians, who don’t live as long as other Australians and whose children are more likely to die in infancy. Their health, education and employment outcomes […]

Although Human Resources left behind the ‘Personnel’ tag along with the metal filing cabinets a long time ago, the profession has never seemed entirely at ease with the names that replaced it.

As the East coast of Australia goes through another heat wave it's time to address office air conditioning management.

How powerful is positive thinking and positive psychology? Can providing employees with tools and skills to be more optimistic, resilient and engaged turn a business facing bankruptcy into a healthy and profitable organisation?

The top jobs for 2017. For HR professionals, it’s important to be aware of which jobs are most desirable as well as job growth areas, skills shortages and market value, so that they can create strategy around recruitment and retention.

How would you feel if your company was able to spy on you; to track your movements and behaviour day and night? The idea may seem like it was lifted from George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 that described a future world of omnipresent surveillance and public manipulation. It has moved from idea to reality, however, […]

If there’s one big barrier to bringing more inclusion and diversity into a workplace, then it’s those in charge. That’s how most employees view it. In the latest AHRI survey, most respondents said they thought it was the CEO’s job to set the tone in an organisation and make sure that inclusion and diversity strategy […]

In the drive to get more women into senior management roles in business, mentoring programs have proliferated both within organisations and across sectors. But the question remains – why haven’t these mentoring relationships had a significant impact on the statistics?