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Connecting with the parents of young workers helps set them up for success, and can prevent some issues that otherwise typically arise, a chief people officer says.

For a large proportion of new hires at Hoyts Group, the job is their first experience of the workforce, CPO Jodi Paton says.

She views this as both a great privilege, and a great responsibility.

Many teenagers "are probably not reading the fine print of contracts", for example, so Paton says it makes sense to involve adults from the start, by providing information during onboarding that is "specifically for parents"...