Tag: Workforce

Australian workers face conundrum: longer hours, lower wages, and stagnant growth, reveals SME index.

Recent findings from NAB sheds light on the evolving landscape of Australia’s labor force, revealing a workforce in transition.

Majority of employers are luring top talent with benefits rather than salary: study

Covid-19 lockdowns pushed many to the brink, but the newest challenge of severe staff shortages and poaching has many at their most desperate point. 

Employers may wonder what it would take for their best achievers to quit for a greater income. Effectively, how important is money?

This week on Let’s Talk, our experts talk about the effect of pay on employee retention and whether or not providing better pay actually helps employees stay on the job.

As businesses embrace temporary and contract workers more than ever, certainty on the terms these workers can be employed is more important than ever…

About 20% of Australian mature workers – aged 55 years and over – say that they have difficulties finding work or securing sufficient hours. One of the primary reasons for this is their age, even though they are the fastest-growing segment of the workforce.  Older workers are more likely to be discriminated against in the […]

The CEO of a national workforce management company is calling on Australian employers to rethink the need for their people to be sitting in an office five days a week, instead focusing on what individual workers need to achieve without a set time allocated. APG Workforce CEO Glenn Redman says his organisation has employed many […]

I’m a former victim of extreme workplace bullying. For more than three years, I worked in the global resources industry in Australia, running health and well-being programs and striving to create safe, healthy and productive work environments for a mostly-male workforce. To anyone looking in from the outside, it would have seemed I was powering […]

Employee benefits, when implemented properly, are among the most effective ways to motivate staff and bring out the best in your people. Staff will eventually leave if they’re not valued or treated fairly. Companies that want to invest in their workers can use perks, such as flexible working arrangements and salary packaging, to show recognition […]