Adopting tactics traditionally used in marketing to define ideal candidates gives employers an advantage in hiring the talent they need, according to researchers from job search engine Indeed. Also in this article, three ways to harness the capabilities of an older workforce.
Employees fear being "out of sight, out of mind" when working from home, and tend to over-compensate with extra emails and communication, new research shows. In other HR news, employers are being urged to take a structured approach to managing DV; Millennials are largely unbiased about male and female leaders; the Victorian Government has vowed to introduce portable long service leave; and more.
More transparency around which career development desires are realistic versus just pipe dreams would help shift the Millennial generation's 'job hopping' tendencies, according to an HR expert.
Shifting their attention from filling roles to "positioning people" will help HR professionals foster the agility their organisations need, says a generational expert.
HR professionals are in "the most extraordinary place right now" to shape how organisations operate, but first they must understand the trends changing the future of work, London Business School professor Lynda Gratton says.
Organisations should develop a "whole new HR strategy" to prepare for future work trends, starting with scrapping graduate internships and delaying retirement, leading HR expert Lynda Gratton says.
Employers must abandon divisional organisational structures and "for the sake of employees from all generations" take a task-based approach to work, a global generational expert says.
Changes in how and where people work will be "even more profound" in the next 40 years than they have been in the past four decades. Meanwhile, new research has found just one in five workers trust their manager; HR is the only field where women executives outnumber men; and more.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has suggested it should be easier for employees to pursue workplace discrimination claims in court, in a major report on age and disability discrimination.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected that a worker facing redundancy should have received preference over a colleague for a "new" position, further clarifying employers' redeployment obligations. Meanwhile, research has found long hours and work-life balance aren't incompatible; employers should do more to address Millennials' anxiety; and more.
