Focused on safety and fairness, the historic agreement between Australia’s Transport Workers Union and tech delivery platform DoorDash lays down six core principles and enforceable industry-wide standards for gig-workers.
Employee Engagement#GreatPowerShift
A lot of leaders are locked in a command-and-control mindset and they want to see people back at their desks while others are approaching decisions about the future sensibly and not rushing to impose rules, says Nick Lynn, Senior Director, Employee Experience and Engagement at Willis Towers Watson.
Strategic HREmployee EngagementTalent Management#HRCommunity#RedrawingEVP
As employee expectations change, talent priorities must be incorporated into the business strategy so as to better attract and retain talent. Maria Zhang, Senior Director of Human Resources for Juniper Networks in the APAC region, tells us about what's changing and what companies can do to adapt.
There are biological and physiological changes with motherhood, and this process, say women leaders, shapes them in various ways and provides them valuable lessons that help them in the workplace too.
TechnologyFunding & Investment
Nineteen investors have joined the Tesla CEO's bid to buy Twitter, including a Saudi prince, Larry Ellison and the founder of a bitcoin exchange.
While some form of social media may help us decompress, our pre-sleep activities should help us relax rather than add to our stress.
Strategic HREmployee RelationsEmployee EngagementTalent Management#HRCommunity#RedrawingEVP
In the current talent scenario, the three top factors that a company needs in its employer brand include leaving society in better shape for the next generation, that employees be cared for and listened to, and the ability to design one’s own career, says Amit Sharma, chief human resources officer, Volvo Group India.
From Facebook to Nike, JP Morgan to Toyota, companies are betting big on the concept of shared worlds and almost every organisation has its own vision of a metaverse archetype - which is part of what makes it exciting.
Employee RelationsEmployee EngagementWellbeing
82% of employees say the ability to work from anywhere has made them happier with 76% claiming that on average, they save up to $8,000 a year while working from home, says a global study by Cisco.
The transgender community has been getting good support from the corporate world in the recent past, but this is still falling short of full inclusion for them with organisations mistaking inclusion for diversity hiring. Industry experts say there is a need to re-examine how organisations can steer clear of tokenism in their efforts to create trans-inclusive workplaces.
