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This week we hosted a webinar on How To Create An Awesome First Day. You may have noticed we have been making a lot of noise around this topic lately and with good reason. Every new employee knows how important it is to make a great first impression. But it’…

Asking for feedback from new employees is really important. You want to make sure all new employees are having a positive onboarding and first day experience. We’ve recently held a webinar on this topic and ran a competition where we asked you to tell us how you create a …

There’s still time to win 1 of 5 $100 JB Hi-Fi vouchers! But we wanted to share just a few of our favourite onboarding stories. To recap, we want to hear how you create awesome first days for employees. Share them with us for the chance to win a voucher – that you …

Calling all HR managers! We’re looking for Australia’s most welcoming workplace – and we think it could be your company… At Employment Hero, we want to enhance the employer-employee relationship. The onboarding process in general – and the first day in particular – are crucial in setting new hires up for …

You can now build and edit your own contracts and policies in Employment Hero. Using the new template management tool, you can create your own templates from scratch, copy and paste your existing documents or tweak a standard template to suit your needs. What’s changed? Previously, you could only …

Whether your small business is growing or just getting off the ground, the way you manage human resources (HR) could determine just how much time you’ve got for everything else on your plate – a list that we know gets longer every day… HR systems for SMBs have become indispensable …

We all know how overwhelming employee management can be and how hard it is to prioritise what you should do next. In fact, even when you’ve just taken on a system like Employment Hero (that’s designed to save time and make life easier), it can be difficult to …

The Harvey Weinstein scandal is back in the news this week – and it’s a  reminder that we should seriously think about how we recognise and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Following a four-month investigation, the New York attorney general’s office has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, …

Here’s a new acronym to add to your burgeoning HR lexicon. STP. It’s shorthand for Single Touch Payroll, the new payroll reporting regime that will be compulsory from 1 July 2018 for all businesses employing 20 or more staff. If you have fewer than 20 staff, you’ve got until 1July 2019 to …

Attracting and retaining employees is vital for your business. And the easiest way to do that is through employee benefits. Free healthy meals at work, discounted travel, opportunities for personal development and study, flexible working, and paid time off for volunteering – these are just some of the compelling employee benefits …