BHP has measured the impact of improving candidate experience on employee engagement and productivity, finding it could add "literally hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value", a conference has heard.
Getting employees to return to the workplace takes more than inviting them back to socialise, and leaders could benefit from tapping into some basic skills they might have 'forgotten', a neurocoach says.
Organisations considered leaders in workforce resilience have a fully developed strategy for engaging contingent workers, rather than viewing them as a "stop-gap" solution, a talent expert says.
The people experience movement recognises and elevates the importance of the HR function, but it also creates "huge pressure" to deliver, an employer branding specialist says.
The "bamboo ceiling" is alive and well in many organisations across Australia, and one way to break through it is for employers to build their cultural intelligence or "CQ", an inclusion leader says.
HR professionals have a major opportunity to shift from being "solely customers" to "actual co-designers" of the ways artificial intelligence is used in workplace decisions, a researcher says.
Many employers jumping on the four-day week "bandwagon" are ignoring what made initial trials successful: an individual approach to flexibility, an expert says.
Mergers and acquisitions present an opportunity for employers to clarify and preserve the aspects of culture that drive their success, and ditch those that don't, but the people side of deals is too often overlooked, an advisor says.
Culturally diverse employees are bearing too much of the "load" in improving workplace inclusion, to an extent that mirrors "victim blaming", a DEI leader says.
Award changes giving overtime rates to a group of workers who weren't previously entitled to them are unlikely to impact many employers, but a provision excluding managers reinforces the importance of making that distinction clear in contracts.
