The Future of Work is Automation, How future proof and ready for impact is your business? Routine, mundane, repetitive and manual tasks that don’t rely on cognitive processes, are set to be replaced by automation. The top five industries most at-risk of automation, coupled with high adverse workforce impact, in ranking order are: #agriculture #mining …
Proximity Bias, heard of it? What about, out of sight out of mind? While proximity bias is not new, its prickle has been on the rise since COVID rudely disrupted our world and remote / hybrid work impacted a larger portion of the working population. The unhappy rumblings of inequity and disproportionate reward, favour, recognition, …
Business today demands agile, progressive leadership, and malleable workplaces with stamina to master the rapids of i-generation shift. A “Business Fluid” is a business with capacity to move at a pace more demanding than any generation before it, where everything is challenged, nothing is held sacred and the comforts of yesterday’s SUCCESS IS not …
We get a diverse and interesting range of enquiries about workplace matters, but the one enquiry that has increased significantly since 2017 relates to workplace romances and whether the employer has a right to become involved. While the employer isn’t the gatekeeper, adjudicator or moral watch dog in matters of affection, the instance relationships …
Take a look around your workplace, which group of workers has a vibrant energy, take risks, strive to be better, have enthusiasm for the job, work in a hive, laugh even when faced with adversity, are decisive, have a voice, and are present.” These are usually the group of workers with a leader that …
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As businesses transition employees from the period of lock down, they should take extreme caution. It is not the time to relax controls that mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Quite the contrary. It is a time to tighten controls, risk management efforts & leverage inroads made of the lock down to avoid workplace shutdowns. …
s19B of the Worker’s Compensation Act, has established presumptive rights to compensation for those at risk of exposure who work in: Retail, except only on-line Health care, ambulance, officers & public health disability & aged care Pre-schools, schools & tertiary institutions, libraries, except only on-line teaching services Police, emergency & rural fire services, fire brigades …
How strong is your COVID-19 self declaration Work Permit? Read More »
The Full Bench of the Federal Court of Australia (WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato [2020] FCAFC 84 (Decision)has again confirmed that an employee engaged as a casual can still be considered a permanent employee despite there being a contract of employment stating otherwise. If you engage long term regular and systematic hours casuals, even …
There is an increasing number of infected persons in Australia, the workplace is a hub and one of the largest points of gathering of persons on a daily basis. The magnitude of the impact is not yet known, with many employers who do not believe it is an issue that requires attention. It does, because …
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We all accept the power of language to evoke a connection, attachment to a value, belief, promise, opinion or image. We’ve all been subjected to enough rhetoric to know the use of language in the right context has enormous power. List the words your organisation uses to describe its culture, values, promises, vision, what it stands …
