Advice

Here we share four mistakes employers often make during the recruitment process and show you how you can avoid making the same errors.

Hiring great talent comes at a huge cost to small-medium sized businesses (SMBs). According to Chandler Macleod, in Australia it takes on average 81 days and $15,000 to place a candidate.

It’s almost a rite of passage, that every generation laments the demise and failings of the next.

When it comes to employee happiness, flexibility and work-life balance are the most important factors to Australians.

Considering the negative impacts of conflict on businesses such as increases in staff turnover and absenteeism, it’s critical for employers to consider how to handle conflict effectively.

Stress is par for the course in workplaces around Australia – and experts agree that some degree of stress can actually aid productivity.

More than 90 per cent of workers agree that racist attitudes are still held in Australian workplaces.

No doubt, you would love to know the secret formula to successful employment relationships. Unfortunately a secret formula doesn’t exist.

Whether it’s the person who never washes up after lunch or the one whose ear seems to be glued to their mobile phone, almost every employer knows of a few pesky employee habits they’d rather not see in the workplace.

The combination of tight purse strings after the expense of Christmas and New Year festivities, and employees with post-holiday blues, can mean an all-round slump for business.

The Minister for Employment has moved to reassure small business operators that advice from the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) should be relied upon, without fear of prosecution.

Performance appraisals offer significant benefits to a business by ensuring that each employee’s performance is contributing to meeting business goals and introduces a culture of responsibility, accountability and empowerment.

Often called the ‘Me Generation’, Gen Y has been tagged by many employers as a group of workers who ‘want it all without having to work for it’.

In any given business there are a variety of roles contributing to business operations, each of which comprise of different skill sets and responsibilities.

There is an overwhelming body of research linking unproductive employees to sick leave. Put simply: the more someone wastes time at work, the more likely they are to take sick leave.

Australians may not be as laid back as the popular stereotype suggests when it comes to their work, a new survey reveals.

There’s a lot to consider when hiring new team members, like how they will fit in with your company culture and determining what their exact role will be.

You planned every detail, solved the last minute glitches and are now basking in the glory of a successful business event – but the work isn’t done yet!

If the stereotype is to be believed, Gen Ys are lazy and apathetic – but new research has found that engagement among young workers mirrors that of their older counterparts.

Australian workers are seeking more benefits from their employers – additional leave and more flexibility are top of the list.