The number of employees with attention deficit trait is rising exponentially, requiring HR professionals to be "radically retrained" to mitigate this, a leadership advisor says.
Separating employees who are friends so they don't distract one another, expecting people to disregard hunger outside meal breaks, and generally pretending people are "machines", are just some of the ways employers trying to "fix" so-called problems are making them worse.
Employees who experience domestic and family violence are "drowning in the workplace", with a lack of support often leading them to lose their job on performance grounds, a social impact expert says.
Australia is performing below global norms for employee experience, with new-hire intent to stay suggesting attention to onboarding hasn't matched employers' focus on talent attraction, an expert says.
Australian businesses are in "a really risky situation at the moment", with new research showing the leading indicators of employee experience are stagnating or declining.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is prevalent in workplaces, but supportive organisational cultures can play a fundamental role in aiding employees' recovery, a psychologist says.
An always-on feedback channel is driving some key initiatives at an employer of choice, where workers feel confident that what they say will "make a difference", its HR leader says.
The approach of "finding what's broken and fixing it" is not necessarily the best way to boost workplace wellbeing and cognitive fitness, a wellness and performance specialist says.
It's easy to respond to stress unthinkingly, but the simple act of encouraging employees to consider what they need can help them to be less reactive in the moment, a performance expert says.
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