Focusing on "honest" flexibility has helped CouriersPlease get "ahead of the curve" in attracting and retaining women leaders to its male-dominated industry, according to its head of HR.
Research suggests emerging technology is a reason to be positive rather than fearful about jobs of the future, but new skills must nonetheless be fostered; distinct attributes are needed for virtual work success; Australia's top HR executives named; CV deception is rife; and more.
An employer that failed to follow its own work-from-home procedures and provide a remote worker with adequate supervision and feedback has been found liable for her psychological injury.
Promoting telework as a workplace benefit for high performers, rather than making it standard practice, can be "detrimental" to business outcomes, a specialist warns.
An organisation that has 85 per cent of its employees working flexibly says allowing arrangements to change as the business does has been key to its success.
The Fair Work Commission's decision to have all modern awards allow for casual-to-permanent conversion requests should prompt employers to rethink how they monitor their employees' hours, specialists say.
Employers "still have a long way to go" in embracing flexible work arrangements, with one in two employees saying leaders lack the skills to support flexibility, according to research released as part of Flexible Working Day today. Meanwhile, an investigation has uncovered nepotism "so blatant as to beggar belief", and 'development opportunities' is now one of the top reasons employees will leave their current job.
Taking employees' biorhythms into account when organising work could be "the next step" for HR in fostering healthier, safer, and more productive workplaces, an academic says.
Employees in shared work environments perceive lower levels of support from their supervisors and report more distrust and uncooperative behaviour, researchers have found.
Westpac has achieved a massive shift in its people leaders' attitudes to flexible work by having them start from a place of 'yes' when asked about flexible arrangements, an HR leader says.
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