The future of work
Propelling performance reviews: How a Kiwi software company has blended holacracy with technology to empower the workforce
The future of performance reviews is here: an evidence-based digital badge system, which nurtures employee skills in a non-discriminatory and usable way. Auckland based software company Propellerhead seeks to challenge normative structures with innovative and alternative business models, notably its new digital badge system which will be introduced in early 2018 – a feature which aims to make traditional annual reviews irrelevant and remove workplace biases such as those towards gender, race, and religion.
Gamify my life
How gamification is helping companies hire top talent
Need to hire new employees? Make the process a game. And it's more common - and easier to do - than you might think.
App for that
Udo: The app that manages your on-the-go staff for you
Need an app to manage on-the-go staff and handle the pressures of the gig economy? There's a Kiwi creation that can help - and it even has a catchy name. Meet Udo.
Bright ideas
Meet the young woman behind PartTimer, the recruitment service poised to expand overseas
A web-based recruitment service that connects employers with part-time workers based on real-time availability and where they live - not necessarily experience - is making waves in Aotearoa and overseas. Rebecca Gidall was just 18 when she started it all.
Sponsored
How the future of HR is all about experiences
HR is on the move – shifting from transactional compliance-related tasks to creating meaningful employee experiences.
Human Resources
Recruitment in a digital world
With more reliance than ever on digital technology, it comes as no surprise that it's an important way to recruit the very best employees for your business. But there's a right, and wrong, way to go about it.
Human roundabout
Organisation Dynamics: the role of human resources in our boardrooms
How to prepare your board for a new era of high HR turnover.
The Pond puts creative talent pool on tap
Talent placement agency The Pond's shiny new website lets company owners fish in a pool of talent to find creatives for just the right job.
Taking the bureaucracy out of recruitment with HR ninja Mandy Johnson
Getting drunk on bourbon at a conference and telling your CEO that the company HR processes are crap isn’t a career advancing move Mandy Johnson recommends. That said, it worked for her. She's distilled her methods into a new book on how to find and keep top talent, and spoke to us about why psychometric tests suck, how gut instinct can be misleading and why great candidates are like great houses.
