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We come today with 5 potent interview questions designed to help you weed out those pesky, overconfident energy-suckers before they even get to contract. As an HR manager, managing toxic employees is all part of the job. That doesn’t mean it isn’t painful – for you as well as for …

Leadership & Management

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Staff turnover affects even the most successful of businesses. It can be for a wide range of reasons; employees follow their partners across the country, they want to spend more time at home with children, they are looking into a major change in career, following a career promotion, or workers …

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Employee relations are increased and a manager and employee are shaking hands

What are employee relations? Employee relations refers to a business’ efforts to create and maintain a positive relationship with all their employees. By maintaining positive and constructive employee relations your business can keep employees loyal and more engaged in their work. Employee relations isn’t just the job of an …

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At Employment Hero, we are pro-flexible workplaces. We want businesses to get the best out of the people and having great working arrangements help drive happy, engaged, high performing employees. In fact, our What Employees Want survey from last year found that 2 in 3 employees want flexible work (the most requested …

A man and a woman are walking outside holding hands. The woman has a bright silver rucksack on her back. Showcasing flexible working.

Last year, Sydney hosted the fourth Invictus Games, an international, multi and adaptive sporting event for wounded, ill and injured men and women from the armed forces. A resounding success, the Games were delivered by a diverse and constantly evolving team that developed over two years. With improving the path …

6 people are sitting in a line, each reading HR Books. The books are all open and everyone is smiling. They are sitting in front of a white brick wall. They are all reading books that will teach them how to be a better manager

In the modern workplace, one of the best things you can do for your career is A.B.L – Always Be Learning! You should always want to learn the things you don’t know, how to do a new skill or how to be a better manager, employee or leader. …

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A woman sitting on her living room floor surrounded up open books and her laptop. She is resting a pencil on top of her top lip and shrugging her shoulders at the camera. She has notepads around her taking notes on employee management

Struggling with employee management? It happens, especially with underperforming employees. Despite the best efforts, an employee is underperforming and something has to be done. Managing an underperforming employee is difficult for everyone – the manager, the team and most of all, the employee. However, for the sake of the business, it’…

A group of people are all in a room. They all look happy and two of the colleagues are high-fiving each other. Showing how people can work happier with your team

Every business wants a happy workplace for their employees. Whether you want to enhance your employer brand, or create a company culture that’s worth raving about. The easiest way to create a happy workplace, is to make sure you have a happy team. Sounds simple right? We all know …

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A laptop is open on a wooden table with a blank, black screen. Next to the laptop is a coffee cup and saucer. This showcases flexible working.

Flexible work is the future. We say this without hesitation because all the statistics show we are correct. It is becoming a top employee demand and more and more businesses are realising that softening rigid work structures can be advantageous. In this blog, we take a deep dive into flexible …

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Flexible workplace arrangements are becoming a top priority for businesses and employees. Thanks to technology, we can work just as easily outside the office as we do on location. There are plenty of reasons to implement flexible work arrangements. Flexible work can help reduce stress levels, increase productivity, boost morale, …