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Many organisations could tighten up their processes for recruiting and managing employees who work with vulnerable people, but according to a compliance expert, there's also a major opportunity to overhaul accreditation and background-checking at a national level.

The ANZ operation of a global organisation continues to slash the time employees spend on strategically unimportant work through a simplification project, but its HR director notes that every time an inefficiency is addressed, "something else rises to the top".

Online reviews about employers can "significantly" impact the opinions of thousands of current and potential employees, and how organisations respond can turn "threat management" into an employer branding strategy, new research shows.

After adopting AI, IBM's HR department has achieved a 55% lift in its approval rating from the business, and a dramatic reduction in admin work is opening up opportunities for its HR practitioners to work in L&D, tech-based and client-facing roles.

Workplace ostracism doesn't just affect the victim; it has "ripple effects" across the organisation if witnessed by other employees, according to researchers.

Safety regulators are taking an increasingly active approach to policing employers' management of psychosocial hazards, risk specialists say.

Whether an employer is considering who to target, which solutions to invest in, or what programs to continue or stop, every decision about employee wellbeing initiatives should be driven by data, organisational health experts say.

With generational diversity comes different values, experiences and competencies that can benefit an organisation, but also a range of preferences that can cause division, a leadership specialist warns.

Loneliness might still be seen as a "personal" problem, but it reduces productivity and compromises psychological safety, so there's a strong business case for employers to "get interested, and intentional".

If leaders aren't aware of the power they wield and its impact on others, they're much more likely to exercise it in ways that compromise psychosocial safety, a leadership specialist says.