Home featured Alex Hatting, Chief People Officer at Employment Hero and Ben Thompson, founder and CEO at Employment Hero Featured Workplace Featured HR has a branding problem, wouldn’t you agree? Loren Webb October 18, 2019 HR is often seen as a negative thing in the workplace, and in small businesses and startups it can be hard to know what the best steps are to implement a successful HR manager or team to lead your teams to greatness. How can we overcome the negative connotations of HR at work, in order to really excel? In this week’s Let Talk feature, we discussed culture and how you can maintain a positive working culture when you are a startup experience rapid growth. A big part of that is having the right people at the right time, with a HR manager leading the way in coaching managers and employees to be at the top of their game and ensuring the team are aligned with company values. To extend on this topic further, we wanted to ask the experts – Alex Hattingh (Chief People Officer) and Ben Thompson (founder/CEO) at Employment Hero – their opinion and advice on how to make HR as effective as possible in business. Employment Hero is a platform that aims to take away the guess work on admin, compliance and legalities associated with HR, so these guys are well-placed to give insight on what small businesses struggle with culture-wise and how they can thrive as they grow! Discover all of