Tag: workforce
Employee burnout on the rise: sick leave increases across 1 in 3 organisations
In May this year, the World Health Organisation officially recognised burnout as a workplace phenomenon, and a result of chronic workplace stress.
Humanforce secures A$22.5 million to scale up global operations with Accel-KKR
Humanforce, a Sydney based global provider of workforce management solutions, has announced it has secured A$22.5M in growth equity investment from Accel-KKR, a leading Silicon Valley technology-focused investment firm.
Australia’s Gen Z is eager to find success as creative and social entrepreneurs
Gen Z rank starting a social media-based business as the best pathway to success, followed by networking or launching a start-up, according to the second chapter of NAB’s whitepaper, Rethink Success.
Guess who’s coming for your job – will humans go the way of horses...
The idea that smart software will eventually begin to eat any job that consists primarily of tasks that are predicable requires only a fairly simple extrapolation that technology will only get better and better.
This human resource tech start-up makes candidate referencing easier and faster
Xref, at its core, is an automated, cloud-based candidate referencing platform – that in itself is a major win for its clients in terms of the time and money they save on resources otherwise wasted on calling and chasing referees.
4.6 million Australian jobs may be at risk within the decade – new StartupAUS...
"The paper highlights the extensive economic benefits of building innovation hubs which have powerful multiplier effects. There’s a lot at stake here - if we get it right, we’ll be able to capitalise on it"
A third of women are confident in returning to work after giving birth –...
Confidence steadily decreases as women age and the biggest insecurities they have about returning to work relate to balancing work and family commitments and whether their skills and knowledge are up-to-date.
Do you know the art of staff scheduling? Are you making the most of...
For most employers, staff scheduling is an ever-present drag. And it’s safe to say that without a strategy in place, most managers will face inevitable headaches.
What will Australia look like in 2055? Our ageing population steals the show in...
The Australian Government is required to produce an Intergenerational Report at least every five years that assesses the long-term sustainability of current Government policies...
Federal Government just “reshuffling the deck cards” on grant funding?
Amidst the heated rhetoric over taxes and the best way to achieve a surplus, one area of the budget may be getting overlooked: grants. According to one agency, "the budget seems to be a reshuffling exercise aimed at incurring no additional expense. Even programs cut last budget are counted as savings again, without much to replace them."
China’s Global Competitive Advantage: the beginning of the end, or the end of the...
For three decades, we have all watched China grow into an economic powerhouse – slowly, at first, and now full-fledged – in an unprecedented, consistent, monotonic success story. However, its continued growth might be short-lived, writes Bill Fischer.