This year, Worklogic has been busy updating our highly informative book (also now a textbook) about workplace investigations, with the third edition due to be released later this month. While working through the updates, I got thinking about what sort of changes I have seen occur in the investigations landscape during the last two to […]
Early one morning in March 2020, as I sat in an almost empty tram, in what felt like a slightly subversive act – traveling into the office, to collect the files and equipment I needed to be able to work from home – I opened the latest entry in the Red Hand Files. A reader […]
Think of all the new things we’ve adopted lately: many of us (lucky enough to have kept our jobs) have learned to work from home; most of us have become proficient at social distancing; a talented few have concocted ways to sew face masks. One unexpected development is the rate at which we have all […]
In 2020, massive disruption hit most industries – and most employees’ working arrangements – due to COVID-19. As workers in some Australian states start to return to the workplace, and others are planning a return in the near future, it’s a good time to contemplate: What have the impacts of COVID taught us about how […]
Australia has undertaken a massive social experiment in flexible ways of working. As the new financial year begins, the immediate practicalities of getting staff to work from home effectively have mostly been addressed, boosted by the re-opening of schools. Slowly, social distancing restrictions are lifting in some Australian states, with many offices and places of […]
Many of us are starting to plan a return to the office as restrictions ease in many states (except of course Victoria) and we gingerly emerge from the character-building exile to our Home Office, cheerfully bidding a fond farewell to spending hours each day on Zoom yet dreading the resumption of the daily commute. Hopefully […]
In May this year, it was reported that “nearly half (46%) of all working Australians working from home in late April and early May”. If you are a HR manager, it might be tempting to wish that with such a large proportion of staff working remotely, instances of bullying might slow during these strange times. […]
Not so long ago, before lockdown, we took many things for granted, in our workplace and in our personal lives. For most of us worker-bees, it was axiomatic that we had “the workplace”, that shared physical space where we shared the daily tasks, encounters, frustrations, joys, rituals, meetings and celebrations of our respective workplaces. And […]
Raised Expectations In the final report of the banking Royal Commission in 2019, Commissioner Hayne described workplace culture as a “root cause” of misconduct in the financial services industry. A prompt regulatory change after the release of the Hayne report was the introduction of additional requirements on ASX-listed companies in the area of ethics and […]
In response to COVID-19, there has been an unprecendented workplace shift as offices close and people work remotely from home. Of course, working remotely presents a whole new set of people risks for organisations to manage. In this webinar Grevis Beard explored various ways to manage scattered teams, remote workers, and the present but invisible […]