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Aon's 'Best Employers' increasingly offer unique and meaningful employee benefits that differentiate them from competitors, according to new research.

HR leaders are failing to align people metrics to business objectives and performance, causing a mismatch in data and ultimately hindering the organisation's key strategic outcomes, a specialist warns.

An organisation that instructed full-time staff to maintain their usual output while working a five-hour day has achieved new efficiencies without any adverse effect on its bottom line, according to its managing director.

When employers are too focused on measuring employee engagement, deliberate workplace culture strategies tend to fall by the wayside, according to an expert.

An employee who was sacked for inappropriate behaviour and comments towards young female workers has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected in the Fair Work Commission.

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Two years into its lean management strategy, efficiencies, quality of work and employee engagement continue to improve at Western Union, according to its APAC head of HR.

Happiness is vital for engagement but has limited application in a business context, according to an expert who says HR should turn their attention to meaning instead.

For its new state-of-the-art site, Dulux has opted to test job applicants before screening resumes, and proactively model the workplace culture on its most-engaged businesses.

Team meetings fall into four distinct categories, and when these are clear to everyone it's much easier to stop them becoming time-wasting talkfests, according to a leadership author.