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It&#8217;s not for every business, or every role, but if it works, it works. And we&#8217;re not alone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workplaceexpress.com.au\/news\/59788\">Businesses surveyed by Fair Work<\/a> estimated that 64% of their employees have been working from home (in part or in full) for the last 6 months. Of those businesses, almost 70% said they&#8217;d be happy for their employees to continue to work from home. But that&#8217;s not to say that working from home isn&#8217;t without its challenges (especially for the 60% of the aforementioned businesses without a WFH policy). If anything, we need to work twice as hard to keep our employees connected and ensure they have everything they need to succeed in their role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"employment-hero-on-employment-hero\">Employment Hero on Employment Hero<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6b587751fc17b5993055e1cf0f87e4fc\">\nNow it won&#8217;t shock you to know that we use Employment Hero as much as possible to do this. Weekly 1:1s between employees and their managers surfaces any roadblocks or red flags that need to be addressed.\n\nWe use <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/solutions\/employee-engagement-software\/\">Shout Outs and Recognition<\/a> to acknowledge a job well done, continuing to cheer each other on in the comments and with as many emojis as possible. The Company Feed is also where we introduce our new starters to the team, and share invites to our virtual yoga classes or social catch ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-42082\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/team-zoom-1024x614.png\" alt=\"A group of people in a zoom meeting\" class=\"wp-image-42082\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Staying connected online&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-57607e8bcae99873e61f2faf912c749b\">Speaking of reward and recognition, we also distribute <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/blog\/hero-points\/\">Hero Points<\/a> as one-off employee gifts or bonuses for things like winning our 10,000 step challenge or coming first in our social trivia nights (and with our soon-to-be released Hero Points enhancements, now you can too). It doesn&#8217;t have to be a big amount either; just something tangible that motivates your team to get involved. We use <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/solutions\/performance-management-software\/\">Goals<\/a> to track company and team objectives, updating our key results on a weekly basis to maintain transparency and accountability. For us, &#8216;this meeting could have been an email&#8217; has become &#8216;this email could have been answered if you looked in Goals&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/blog\/goal-setting-remote-teams-okrs\/\">From a leadership perspective<\/a>, it&#8217;s fantastic having the ability to check in on the progress of any one team or project without having to wait for a call or email back. It&#8217;s a faster way to get the information I need, and I don&#8217;t distract the other person from whatever tasks they&#8217;re working on when I interrupt them. And it&#8217;s not just me; it&#8217;s the entire leadership team, our managers and our employees using our time more efficiently. And of course, we&#8217;d be unable to function without our core HR functions: the <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/products\/applicant-tracking-system\/\">applicant tracking system<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/solutions\/onboarding-software\/\">paperless onboarding<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/blog\/leave-management-guide\/\">leave management<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/solutions\/employee-management-software\/\">policies and certifications<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/solutions\/employee-management-software\/\">electronic employees files<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/blog\/employee-self-service\/\">employee self-service<\/a>, our <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/solutions\/hr-reporting-software\/\">asset register<\/a>&#8230; you name it. We&#8217;ve always loved the flexibility of being cloud-based, but now we know first-hand how much easier it is to manage HR and payroll from anywhere (and how lost we&#8217;d be without it). Especially now that we&#8217;re managing a global workforce. Without our core HR functionality, it would have been impossible for us to legally and ethically employ our people outside of Australia. That&#8217;s why we launched <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/products\/employer-of-record\/\">HeroForce EoR<\/a> \u2014 to offer that same service to our customers, giving you the opportunity to expand your team based on skills and diversity, instead of proximity to the workplace. By legitimising the hiring of remote talent through compliant, fair and inclusive practices, HeroForce EoR has already enabled small and medium businesses like yours to employ staff across Australia and 15 countries, including Greece, Singapore and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-42083\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/xmas-party-1024x614.png\" alt=\"A photo of the Employment Hero team\" class=\"wp-image-42083\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>&#8230;and in person (when it&#8217;s safe)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"staying-agile\">Staying agile<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7a00727986f4ab514080b87a03520ca0\">\nFlexible working isn&#8217;t without its challenges, but the benefits remote work offers make it worth meeting those challenges head on. Personal, professional and economic benefits, like spending more time with family, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-12-02\/jobs-boom-happening-in-australian-regional-centres\/12939916\">redistributing wealth outside of metro Australia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/resources\/diversity-inclusion-handbook\/\">providing better opportunities to people with disability, carers and parents<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have all the answers, but I&#8217;m committed to doing whatever I can to find them\u2014and sharing my learnings with other small and medium businesses along the way.\n\nWhat it means to be an employer is always changing: the law, the strategies, the tools. There&#8217;s always a new and better way to do something. The only certainty is that to be a good employer, you need to adapt. Large corporates have entire floors of HR teams to manage the evolution of employment; the rest of us need to be a little more resourceful. That&#8217;s why my mission hasn&#8217;t changed in the last 20 years, and won&#8217;t change in the next 20 years.\n\nMaking employment easier and more rewarding doesn&#8217;t have an endpoint. We&#8217;ll continue to build a platform that empowers business owners and people managers to be as efficient, effective and compliant as they can be. Remote-first work is the next evolution of employment, but it won&#8217;t be the last. For the challenges we face now, and the challenges we&#8217;ll face in the future, I look forward to finding the solutions together.\n\nThanks for reading,\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/employmenthero.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ben-Thompson-2-e1605147605736.png\" alt=\"Ben Thompson Signature\" class=\"wp-image-35188\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\" data-trigger-modal=\"request-a-demo-modal\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Learn more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-link-arrow is-style-link-arrow--3\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-btn-brand-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"\/resources\/?topic%5B0%5D%5B0%5D=Product\">View all<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query blog-3-col-query-loop is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 alignfull wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-1 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-56191 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color has-neutral-100-border-color has-white-background-color has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-15 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-width:1px;min-height:100%\"><figure style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;width:100%;height:100%; 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