The role of a manager has become "completely unmanageable", due to "an overflowing set of responsibilities and insufficient support from above", a Gartner director says.
A rise in employees "weaponising" bullying allegations for strategic reasons now requires a more measured response from HR, according to an employment lawyer.
Work can be "as addictive as drugs or alcohol", but workaholism isn't receiving enough attention as a psychosocial health issue to manage, according to an occupational psychologist.
It's up to recruiters and hiring managers to ensure the language barrier doesn't become an employment barrier for ESL candidates, according to an expert who says that unless spoken language skills are a key component of a role, an interview might not even be necessary.
An employee's choice of support person can make the difference between a fraught process and a smooth one, but confusion abounds about what constitutes an appropriate support person, and the role they're meant to play, a lawyer says.
Employers will often blame their recruitment process for not having the right talent in place, but often there's a lack of understanding and agreement on what high performance looks like, assessment specialists say.
Widespread adoption of a four-day week could drive some "perverse" wellbeing outcomes, warns a futurist who says the question is not "if" norms will change, but "when".
Staff at EY Oceania say workplace bullying has often been "excused or normalised" as performance management, and half of those who reported the behaviour were dissatisfied with the company's response, according to a culture review.
Leaders too often dismiss negative micro-behaviours or incivility without realising its potential to damage trust and communication in the workplace, a people and culture specialist warns.
The root of most business leaders' problems isn't a lack of effort, it's the unexamined "default settings" of their "mental operating system", an executive coach says.
