The importance of Culture 2020 has been a challenging time for organisations, and leadership has never been more important for shaping organisational culture. Workplace cultures have had to shift very quickly, as we have all needed to find new ways to interact and connect while working remotely. Workers who are still in the workplace have […]
2020 can be called a lot of things, none of them very positive! The surreal journey of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) comes to mind, as we reflect on the year that will soon come to a close. The book provides a charming lens through which to consider the challenges and U-turns, […]
If ever there were a time when we needed inspirational leadership in the workplace (and the world, fingers crossed!), then that time is now! In these Covidian times of global upheaval and uncertainty, and with all the disruption across 2020, the crucial question is “who is flying the plane?”. There are all sorts of theories […]
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. […]