HR teams own a growing share of workplace training. Onboarding, safety courses, leadership programs, compliance refreshers and professional certifications all need to be scheduled, tracked and recorded. Often, that work is spread across calendars, spreadsheets, email, and a learning platform never designed for classroom sessions. A...
Dress codes are one of those workplace policies that most HR teams inherit rather than design. A three-page document was probably written the better part of a decade ago, has been photocopied into the induction pack ever since, and nobody has looked at it critically in...
Before 2020, workers compensation for remote workers was a specialist question that came up in a small number of cases. Now it's a mainstream HR issue. Somewhere between a quarter and a third of the Australian workforce works from home at least part of the...
For anyone in HR who thought the employee versus contractor question was settled by the 2022 High Court decisions, the last 18 months have been a whiplash. What looked like a stable legal framework - where a well-drafted contract essentially determined the classification - has...
Running a small business means wearing a dozen hats at once, often including the ones nobody trained you for – HR, marketing, finance, and customer service, sometimes all before lunch. Growth doesn't usually come from one big breakthrough; it comes from getting a handful of...
Here's a shift worth paying attention to: candidates are researching employers the same way they research everything else – by searching for it. Long before someone applies for a role, they've likely searched your company name, read a few reviews, checked out your careers page,...
If job hunting feels harder than it used to, that's not just a feeling – competition for good roles has genuinely intensified. More applicants, more automated screening, and more roles receiving hundreds of applications within days of being posted. So how does an individual candidate...
Ask most HR leaders what keeps them up at night, and "we can't find good people" comes up more often than almost anything else. But here's the uncomfortable follow-up question: are great candidates actually looking at your company, or are they scrolling straight past it? That's...
Workplace accidents rarely happen on schedule. One minute everything's running normally, and the next, an employee is dealing with an injury, a mountain of paperwork, and a lot of unanswered questions. If you've ever been on either side of that situation – as the injured...
Human resources teams are increasingly using technology to improve how employees are recruited, onboarded, trained, and supported. While HR software has traditionally focused on managing employee records, recruitment workflows, performance information, and administrative tasks, newer AI technologies are expanding what HR teams can create and...