Everyone braced for a fight that never came.
Read MorePosted by Mathew French on 11 August 2026
Everyone braced for a fight that never came.
Read MoreTopics: Australian HR
Posted by Mathew French on 28 July 2026
Nine in ten Australian employers were already using some form of skills-based hiring in 2024, one of the highest adoption rates anywhere in the world.
Read MoreTopics: Skills Based Organisation
Posted by Mathew French on 14 July 2026
Every year, Australian businesses collectively spend billions replacing people who didn't actually want to leave.
Read MoreTopics: Internal Mobility
The most effective way to get employees to complete compliance training isn't a deadline or a policy reminder. It's a leaderboard, a badge, and a well-timed dopamine hit.
Read MoreTopics: Gamification
Most HR managers will tell you they feel reasonably on top of payroll. The runs go out on time, no one's complained lately, the software does its thing.
Read MoreTopics: Payroll
There is a particular kind of pressure that arrives in the new year when the CEO has returned from Davos, or read the latest PwC survey, or sat through a board strategy day.
Read MoreTopics: CEO/HR Relationship
Here's what most Australian employers are calling a psychosocial safety programme: a fruit bowl. An EAP number somewhere on the intranet. A mindfulness session at the last team day. Maybe a wellbeing survey that nobody read the results of. ❌
Read MoreTopics: Psychosocial Safety Australia
Probation is one of those workplace concepts that sounds simpler than it is.
Read MoreTopics: Australian HR, New Zealand HR